A complementary team

Ombeline DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
CEO & co-founder

  • PhD in acoustics in Maine University (France)
  • 12 years of academic research (Columbia University Medical Center, INSERM)
  • 7 years as leader of a SME team in Bordeaux, dedicated to X-ray products development (Imagine Optic) 
  • Working full time for Letsee Imaging since April 2023
  • Business training with HEC Challenge + in 2024

Philippe ZEITOUN
CSO & co-founder

  • PhD in Physics (X-ray laser) in University Paris-South, Orsay (France)
  • 1st to demonstrate the Hartmann technique in the X-rays 25 years ago
  • 25 years collaboration and technology transfer with a French SME (Imagine Optic)
  • 200 international publications including 25 on X-ray Hartmann, 50 invited talks, 2 chapters in books
  • Head of COST MP1203 consortium on advanced X-ray metrology (2012-2016), 400 persons all over Europe, USA, Australia, Tunisia
  • Researcher Director at CNRS, working on his secondment to Letsee Imaging

Advisory Board

Dr. Étienne KRIEGER

  • Affiliate Professor at HEC Paris 
  • Expert in strategy and entrepreneurial finance, ranging from startup creation and financing to scaling and exit strategies 
  • Co-founder and academic director of the HEC Challenge + certificate (France & Africa) and the “SME Manager: Innovation, Impact & Growth” certificate 
  • Advisor of more than 2000 innovative startups
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Dr. Matthieu LECLERC-CHALVET

  • CEO of Therapixel, AI-based software for mammography  
  • Over 30 years of experience, mostly internationally, in developing and commercializing innovation-based medical devices
  • Passionate for bringing innovative products to markets
  • 15 M€ fund raised (serie B) in 2022 for Therapixel
  • Managing director of Mirada, 6M£ raised (2014-2019)
  • Co-founder of scanOSkin, digital imaging for assessment of burns
  • PhD of Hertforshire on adoption of innovative medical technology
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Scientific Board

Dr. Marta FAJARDO

  • Tenured Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. 
  • PhD from Ecole Polytechnique, France (2001).
  • Part of the scientific committees from large-scale laser facilities in UK and France and previously of ELI ERIC. 
  • more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals. 
  • She received the Mariano Gago prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
  • Research fields: laser-based X-ray sources, X-ray imaging, X-ray optics, as well as the translation of innovation to society.
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Dr. Mourad IDIR

  • Founder of the Optical Metrology Laboratory at National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (2010).
  • Leader of the Ex-Situ and In Situ Metrology and Optics Fabrication efforts at the NSLS-II facility.
  • PhD in Physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, France (1994)
  • Nearly 300 articles and proceedings published in peer-review scientific journals.
  • Long-standing collaboration with Imagine Optic (SME developing X-ray metrology).
  • Research fields: high precision optical metrology, X-ray optics, instrumentation, X-ray wavefront sensing technologies (Hartmann, grating-based ,…)
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Pr. Eduardo OLIVA GONZALO

  • Associate Professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain. 
  • PhD from UPM and Ecole Polytechnique, France (2010). 
  • Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship (2015) and Ramón y Cajal fellowship (2020). 
  • Management board of the COST actions MP1203 and CA17126
  • more than 110 articles and proceedings published in international scientific reviews, with several Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters
  • Research fields: mathematical physics, computational physics, 3D Maxwell and Maxwell-Bloch modeling of X-ray source and Hartmann imaging system. 
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