Arnaud Brignon is a team leader at Thales Research & Technology (Palaiseau, France). The main research areas of his team include coherent laser beam combining, photonic integrated circuits, and quantum sensing. A Fellow of the Optical Society of America, he received the Fabry-de Gramont Prize from the Société Française d’Optique, the Fresnel Prize from the European Physical Society, and the MIT Technology Review’s Young Innovators Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).