Jean-Noël Patillon is a graduate of the Supélec engineering school and holds a PhD in solid state physics from the Solid State Physics Laboratory at the University of Paris XI. From 1984 to 1996, he joined LEP (Laboratoire d'Electronique Philips), becoming head of the Optoelectronics group. In 1996, he joined Motorola Labs Paris and headed the "Broadband System and Technology" and "Molecular Electronics Research" laboratories, addressing the fields of short-range systems (WLAN, WPAN) and heterogeneous networks, cognitive radio and SDR. He is involved in projects such as @HOM, Broadway, UCAN, WINNER, PULSERS, FIREWORKS, E2R/E2RII, E3. In January 2009, he joined the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) and became head of the "Communication Systems" laboratory at the CEA List institute, working on E2E and M2M communication systems and solutions. He helped set up the Nano-INNOV operation and the SystemX Technological Research Institute. He was appointed Scientific Director of CEA List and Deputy Director of the CEA List Carnot Institute in 2013. He has been acting director of the CEA List institute since September 2018.