Francois Vasey holds an electronics engineering degree from ETH-Zurich and a PhD degree in optoelectronics from EPF-Lausanne. He joined CERN in 1994 to develop radiation resistant optical links for LHC experiments. He led the CMS Tracker Optical Link project until system commissioning in 2008, the Versatile Link project until 2013 and is currently leading the Versatile Link Plus project for the phase II upgrades of the HL-LHC experiments.
Francois is the electronics coordinator of the CMS Outer Tracker project, and since 2018 is the head of the Electronic Systems for Experiments group at CERN (EP-ESE).