Bio:
Dr. Didier Bourse currently holds the position of Director, European Research Cooperation inside Alcatel-Lucent, France. He received his diploma degree in telecommunications in 1992 from ENSTBr (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France) and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 from IRCOM (Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Micro-ondes, France).
In 1997 Dr. Bourse joined Thomson-CSF Communications and worked in the field of military tactical SDR. He was member of NATO FM3TR Technical Group. He was in 2000 the French Technical Manager of a French-German contract dedicated to a SDR Demonstrator realization. Dr. Bourse joined Motorola in January 01 and was the Technical Manager of the European research project IST-TRUST for SDR. He prepared the IST-SCOUT Proposal, coordinated the SDR activities within the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and was editor in 2002 of the WWRF SDR White Paper "Reconfigurable SDR Equipment and Supporting Networks - Reference Models and Architectures".
Dr. Bourse led the preparation of the complete FP6 E2R Programme (E2R I and II Proposals), managed the E2R I Project and is currently managing the E2R II Project, while preparing the FP7 E3 Project Proposal. Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, Dr. Bourse held the position of Project Manager on "Cognitive Radio Systems" inside SRL Lab of Motorola Labs-Paris.