Tarik Bourouina received his PhD from Université ParisXII Creteil in 1991 and the Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches degree from Université Paris-Sud-Orsay in 2000. He started research at ESIEE in 1988, in the field of silicon-based acoustic microsensors and microgyroscopes. In 1995, he joined IEF lab in Université Paris-Sud-Orsay. From 1998 to 2001, he was an invited scientist at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Currently, he is a professor at ESIEE. His research interests include microsensors, microanalysis systems, and optical MEMS.