Thibault Honegger is the CEO and co-founder of NETRI. He is a graduate engineer from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France), and obtained his Master's degree in Biotechnology and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Grenoble Alpes University (France). He was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, Boston (USA) for two years where he developed neural networks in vitro. He then joined the CNRS as a principal investigator to lead the microfluidic neuroengineering team. He has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the inventor of 8 patents. He co-founded several start-ups such as Peerus in 2015, Linkio in 2015 and Smart Force Technologies in 2016. In 2018, he co-founded NETRI.