Olivier Guillon

Olivier Guillon studied materials science at the Ecole des Mines d'Alès and obtained his doctorate Electromechanical characterization and modelling of PZT ferroelectric ceramics at the Université de Franche-Comté in 2003. In parallel, he studied music at the conservatory of Besançon (majoring in organ).

Turning down a permanent position at INSA Lyon, he moved to Germany in 2004 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Jürgen Rödel's group at Technische Universität Darmstadt. After a research stay at the University of Washington, he returned to Darmstadt in 2007 to lead a DFG-funded Emmy Noether group.

Guillon was appointed in 2011 to the professorship of Mechanics of Functional Materials at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The habilitation process Constrained sintering of ceramic materials started at Technische Universität Darmstadt was completed in January 2012.. In February 2014, he became director of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research (now Institute of Energy Materials and Devices) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, coupled with an appointment as full professor at RWTH Aachen University. He has also been a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, University of Grenoble Alpes & CEA and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

He has been the chief executive officer of the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), the national research center for natural and engineering sciences, since September 2025. He is also an affiliate professor at the University of Luxembourg.