Jean-Michel André holds a doctorate in engineering from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France. He is a former CNRS engineer and, in 2011, was awarded the instrumentation prize of the Société française de physique and the Société chimique de France.
Philippe Jonnard is CNRS Research Director at LCPMR, France. He is a specialist in X-ray spectroscopy, and studies the stacking of nanometric thin films using innovative X-ray methods.