Franck Dahan was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1971. He received his engineering degree in Electronics in 1994, from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. During his work towards the M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I), he joined the University of Michigan for six months in 1994, where he was involved in the modeling and SPICE Simulation of GaAlAs/GaAs HBTs. He is currently fulfilling his military service while holding the position of Scientific Assistant.