Claude Amra is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Fresnel, which he co-founded and led. He was previously Director of Laboratoire d'Optique des Surfaces et des Couches Minces and then Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute of Systems and Engineering Sciences within CNRS. Michel Lequime is an emeritus professorat Ecole Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel.
He was Head of Division at BERTIN, led the Optical Thin Films Group at the Institut Fresnel, and served as Secretary to the French Optical Society. Myriam Zerrad is a research engineer at Aix-Marseille University, Institut Fresnel. Sh the Scattering Group and leads the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Institut Fresnel.