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A. Perrier, She received the M.Sc Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble " ), Degree in Optics, Optoelectronics, and Microwaves from the INPG She received the Ph.D. degree in 2006 from the Laboratory of Microwaves and Characterization (LAHC) Her research interests include the theory, design, and realization of tunableimpedance transformers, 1980.

, She has been an Assistant Professor since where she teaches electronics and signal processing. She continues her research at the Research Center on Medical Imaging (Creatis-LRMN) She designs and realizes RF sensors for MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) applications, 2008.

J. Duchamp-was-born-in-lyon and F. , He received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Orsay, (France) in 1988 and the Engineer degree in 1990 from Supelec. He has been a Research Engineer at Techmeta (France) from 1991 to 1996. He received the Ph He has been an Assistant, 1965.