Pascal Briois received a Master's degree in science and material engineering from Henri Poincaré University, Nancy, France, in 2002, and a Ph.D. in science and material engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM). His main research areas include the characterization and elaboration of SOFC/PCFC, sensors, and catalysts by thin technology in particular reactive magnetron sputtering. Since 2002, he has been a member of the French research group on fuel cells, and in 2020 he became a member of the board of the French National H2 network to represent FEMTO-ST. In 2018, he became a member of the steering committee of C’nano EST and he is the head of the SURFACE platform from UTBM. The surface platform is specialized in dry surface treatment (PVD) and the characterization of thin films. Since 2020, he has been the deputy director of the Micro-Nano Science and Surfaces (MN2S) department of the FEMTO-ST institute. He is the holder of the French research expertise bonus (PEDR) from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and a member of the ElectroChemical Society since 2011.