Prof. Bernard Doudin leads the Nanodevices team at CNRS / IPCMS (Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg), made up of 5 permanent researchers, and typically 2 postdocs and 6 PhD students. He is also the scientific Director of the cleanroom facilities, and currently heads the Laboratory of Excellence Nanostructures in Interactions with their Environment. Half of the 10 students graduating from his group over the past 5 years, are now postdocs, and the other half are employed by industry.