Damien Querlioz is a CNRS researcher at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Université Paris-Sud, Orsay. He received his predoctoral education at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, his PhD at Université Paris-Sud in 2008, and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University and CEA. He focuses on novel usages of emerging non-volatile memory, in particular relying on inspirations from biology and machine learning. He coordinates the INTEGNANO interdisciplinary research group. In 2016, he was the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant to develop the concept of natively intelligent memory.