Virgile HERMANN

Senior Strategy & Product Policy Director at SAFRAN Timing Technologies

Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

About

Skills: Engineering team management, Bid & Project Management on R&D programs in an international framework, Inovative Development Management, Research Valorization & Transfer from Laboratories to Industry, Innovation, Business Development Domains: Time & Frequency domain: Atomic Clocks, Atomic Sensors, Cold Atoms, GNSS, GPS, GALILEO, Navigation, Space developments, Quantum Sensors, Quantum Tech Technologies of Large Instruments: High Power RF Sources for Particle accelerators, Tokamaks

Experience

  • Safran - Navigation & Timing (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Strategy & Product Policy Director
      Jan 2026 - Present · 8 mos

      Responsible for the strategy and the product policy at Safran Timing Technologies, as well as the R&D and Innovation on sensors and clocks for the One PNT Business Unit of Safran Electronics & Defense

    • Senior Engineering Director & Product Line Manager
      Nov 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos

      Manager of high skilled engineers in the field of atomic clocks and high performance quartz oscillators for space and ground applications. Safran’s atomic clocks are embedded in Galileo satellites and in other GNSS. Applications : GNSS, Galileo, IRNSS, Resilient Positioning Navigation and Timing (PNT), Telecom, Science

  • Member of the Scientific Committee for the Time-Frequency domain at LNE (Laboratoire National d'Essais)
    Dec 2012 - Present · 13 yrs 9 mos

    LNE is the French National Institute of Standards & Metrology http://www.lne.eu/index-en.asp

  • Chairman of the Institute Advisory Board at IUT de Vélizy-Rambouillet
    Feb 2012 - Sep 2021 · 9 yrs 8 mos

    http://www.iut-velizy.uvsq.fr/

  • Thales AVS-France (18 yrs 1 mo)
    • Head of Engineering
      Apr 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Manager of a multidisciplinary engineering team, leading system developments for Defence, Telecom and Science applications. Starting from high power electron tubes to transmitters and up to sub-systems for large instruments. Keywords : Travel wave tube (TWT), klystron, Gyrotron, high power amplifiers, SSPA, particule accelerators

    • Bid & Project Manager
      Aug 2013 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      In charge of the inovation programs of the "Science" product line. Project manager for the development of innovative high-power RF sources (Gyrotrons, IOTs, etc.) for particle accelerators and nuclear fusion tokamaks. Application domains: Scientific large instruments (accelerators, tokamaks, etc.)

    • R&D and Product Line Manager
      Jan 2008 - Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 8 mos

      Time-Frequency Product Line manager. In charge of the R&D and the production setup of atomic clocks and Cesium tubes, first and only European industrial source. Application domains: Telecom network synchronization, Inertial navigation, Satellite positioning

  • Member of the Steering Committee at LabEx FIRST-TF
    Jun 2013 - Dec 2019 · 6 yrs 7 mos

    FIRST-TF is a "Laboratory of Excellence"​ (LabEx), consortium of academic laboratories in the Time-Frequency domain, including agencies (CNES, DGA, ...) and industries http://first-tf.com