During her previous 18 years at CEA, she held a variety of senior-management and strategy-development positions, and helped secure numerous patents. She served as Leti’s deputy director from 2007-2011. During that time, she also took on the additional responsibility of deputy director in charge of strategy, working closely with the Carnot institutes network.
Most recently, she was chief scientist at CEA Tech, the CEA research unit that includes Leti, Liten and List. In that position, she was in charge of developing and implementing the unit’s scientific and technological goals, coordinating with industrial partners and establishing strategic partnerships with academic labs.
Semeria joined Leti in 1996 as project manager, and also served as head of the institute’s Thermal Treatment Lab from 1996-1999. From 2003-2007, she was the microelectronics program manager.
Her professional experience ranges from work at a major global industrial to a French startup. She began her career at Sagem, the high-tech unit of SAFRAN Group. At Sagem, she served as project engineer and was promoted to manufacturing chief engineer, focusing on magnetic memory technologies. Semeria left Sagem after seven years to join the start-up PixTech as chief architect, working on emissive flat-screen technology. She joined Leti after three years at PixTech.
In 2011, she was awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest professional accolade.
Semeria is a member of the French and European Physics Societies. She also has served as a member of the National Committee of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Superior Council of Research and Technology. She is currently a member of the executive committees of ANR (the French National Research Agency) and CNRS, and the coordinating committee of the Allistene alliance, the science and digital technology alliance.
Semeria received a doctorate of science in solid-state physics from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble.