Philippe Basset is professor at Université Gustave Eiffel / ESIEE Paris. He completed his Ph.D from IEMN University of Lille 2003 in the areas of microelectronic and micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS). In 2004 he was a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. In 2005 he joined ESIEE Paris at the Université Paris-Est (now Université Gustave Eiffel), France, where he developed the activities on mechanical energy harvesting. His current research interests include micro-power sources for autonomous sensors, conditioning systems for tribo-electret  generators and micro/nano-structuration of silicon. He currently serves in the International Steering Committee of the PowerMEMS conference and he is deputy director of the ESYCOM lab.