Marie-Noelle Semeria

Marie-Noelle Semeria

Marie-Noelle Semeria is the Chief Technology Officer of Total since November 2017.

She was previously CEO of CEA-Leti and President of the Network of Carnot Institutes. During her previous 18 years at CEA, she held different senior-management and strategy-development positions and helped secure numerous patents in CEA- Leti and as Chief Scientist for CEA Tech. Her professional experience ranges from public research to start-up and high tech industry.

She began her career at Sagem (Safran) in magnetic storage, then she served in the start- up Pixtech as field emission display architect before joining CEA-Leti where she launched an internal contest to promote start-up creation and signed leading partnerships with semi-conductor industrial majors.

In 2011, she was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Order of Merit in 2015.

Semeria held numerous positions as board member of French and European agencies and associations: ANR, CNRS, Allisten, MINALOGIC, AENEAS.

She received a doctorate of science in solid state physics from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble and a degree from IHEST to bridge science and society.