Founders

Muquans, founded in 2011, is a high-tech company specialized in high performance gravity sensing, time & frequency applications and laser solutions. Muquans has developed a unique expertise to bring quantum technologies to an appropriate level of technological maturity, and exploit their potential for operational use in various fields of applications.

Our solutions are the result of a long-term research effort initiated by our academic partners, LNE-SYRTE and LP2N, that demonstrated the competitive advantage offered by quantum technologies for various types of applications. Since its creation, Muquans has developed tight connections with the academic world, as well as a unique expertise to bring the most sophisticated concepts to the Technology Readiness Level required for an operational exploitation.

The company is managed by its three original founders:

Bruno Desruelle

Bruno Desruelle is the Chief Executive Officer of Muquans. He received his doctorate from University Paris XI for his work on Bose-Einstein Condensation in Alain Aspect’s group. He has acquired a solid industrial experience in the field of high-technology photonics business while working for Corning Incorporated in the field of DWDM optical communication systems, then […]

Philippe Bouyer

Philippe Bouyer is research director at CNRS and deputy director of the Institut d’Optique Graduate School in Bordeaux. He received his doctorate at Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1995 and was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford during which he worked on atom interferometer-based inertial sensor experiments. He joined CNRS and the Institut d’Optique Graduate School […]

Arnaud Landragin

Arnaud Landragin is research director at CNRS and director of the laboratory SYstèmes de Réference Temps-Espace, a mixed unit of research between Observatoire de Paris – Université PSL, CNRS and Sorbonne Université. Doctorate in Physics in Institut d’Optique in 1997, he started his research activities in atom interferometry during his post-doctoral fellow in Yale University. […]