After graduation from Ecole Supérieure d'Optique in 1990, Vincent Laude obtained a PhD from Université Paris-Sud (1994) and the habilitation from Université de Franche-Comté (2002). He was a researcher at the Corporate Research Laboratory of Thomson-CSF from 1995 to 1999 and then at Thomson-CSF Microsonics in 2000. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in October 2000, first as a senior researcher then as a research director from 2006. His research interests include acoustic and elastic wave propagation in micro & nano structures, especially in phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials. He is also studying spatially confined acousto-optical interactions, for instance inside phoxonic crystals and phoxonic fibers.