Carlos Alonso Ramos obtained his PhD in 2014 from the Universidad de Málaga and was an invited researcher at NRC Canada, Politecnico di Milano, and MIT. After completing a postdoc at L’Institut d’Électronique Fondamentale, he joined CNRS in 2017, where he launched research on silicon optomechanics and AI-enhanced on-chip spectroscopy. Since 2020, he has led the 30-person Silicon Photonics team at C2N. He has published over 100 journal papers, supervised 14 PhD students, and demonstrated record-performance photonic devices in collaboration with STMicroelectronics and CEA-Leti. His team pioneered AI-driven integrated Fourier transform spectrometers and high-visibility photon pair generation in silicon. He currently leads two European projects: ERC Consolidator SPRING on optomechanics and HORIZON RIA SYMPHONY on absorption spectroscopy.