Julien Arcamone

Julien Arcamone - Vice-President Corporate R&D, ASM

Since 2023, Julien Arcamone is the Vice-President of the Corporate R&D of ASM, the leading semiconductor equipment supplier in ALD and Epitaxy. Based in Leuven at imec, he leads teams in Belgium and Finland that develop ASM’s novel ALD and epi processes that will enable future advanced logic and memory devices. 

Prior to that, he was 15 years with CEA-Leti, where he started as staff research scientist in NEMS. Then he held several positions, notably VP of Business Development for Asia, his last one with Leti being Head of the Connectivity & Computing Devices Department. In that position, he managed R&D teams dedicated to active RF and quantum devices, advanced CMOS and memories devices, and their related advanced computing approaches (Edge AI, In-Memory Computing), as well as the teams in charge of developing 3D integration technologies.

He graduated in 2003 from INSA Lyon in Materials Engineering, with a focus on semiconductor materials & devices. Then, he received a PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2007 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), and the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from Grenoble-Alpes University in 2017. He is an IEEE Senior Member, and was part of IEEE MEMS conference’s TPC in 2016 and 2017. Dr. Arcamone has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 1 book, and is the co-inventor of 9 patents.