Frédéric Grillot is a professor at Télécom Paris and the University of New Mexico (USA). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught laser dynamics and quantum mechanics. His current research focuses on photonics and quantum technologies for optical communications applications. In particular, he studies new light emitters exploiting interband or intersubband transitions, nonlinear photonics in semiconductors, and complex subwavelength optical systems.  Frédéric Grillot is the author of numerous contributions in optics, photonics, and optoelectronics, some of which have been published in high-impact journals (Nature Light Science & Applications, Advanced Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Nanophotonics). He has contributed to the development of quantum dot technology and has made fundamental contributions to the dynamics and light-matter interaction in quantum cascade sources.

His research is particularly important for neuromorphic computing and secure free-space links using chaotic waveforms in the mid-infrared. Frédéric Grillot is a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America and the IEEE Photonics Society.