Mickaël Lallart was born in 1983. He received the Graduate degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics, electrotechnics, and automatics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA-Lyon), Lyon, France, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (CIMSS) in Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 2009, he has been hired as an Associate Professor with the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité (INSA Lyon, France), and has been appointed as a Full-Time Professor in 2019. Since 2021, he is the head of the Department of Doctoral Studies and Education through Research in INSA Lyon, France.

Dr. Lallart authored or coauthored since 2006 more than 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 conference papers including 11 personally invited talks and 3 plenary talks. He edited 6 books and participated to 9 book chapters and reviewed more than 250 manuscripts for various journals.

Dr. Lallart was the recipient of an invited JSPS research fellowship in Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2019–2020, and held an invited Adjunct Researcher position in Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, in 2018–2020. He was a PI or key partner of National and International Academic Projects funded by French National Research Agency or European Union for instance, and participated to several industrial collaborations as well.