Frédéric Richardeau: Bachelor/Master/Agrégation ENS Paris-Cachan 1992, Ph.D. Toulouse INP 1996, CNRS Scientist Researcher 1997. His research interests include Global Reliability and Diagnosis of Power Devices, Fail-Safe and Fault-Tolerant Converter, Multicell and Multilevel Converter. From 2009 to 2015, he was head of the Power Electronics team with the Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE) at the University of Toulouse and CNRS. Today, as CNRS Research Director, his research focuses on the Robustness and Protection of Wide Band Gap Power Devices for Reconfigurable and Integrated Critical Converter. In 2021, its scientific production is based on 60 journal publications, 120 conference papers (32 of which were invited or award-winning), 10 patents, one CNRS National Award (2005), and one International Award (1996), foour Awards on industrial partnership activity. He has also supervised 21 Ph.D., nine of which were awarded excellence prizes by the University of Toulouse. IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation 2021.