Amédée Lacraz is a PhD student at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. His current research interests, as part of the Marie Curie ITN project TRIPOD, include femtosecond laser based inscription on polymer optical fibre. Amédée holds a MSc. in physics at École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a MSc. in optics and photonics at Institut d'Optique in Palaiseau where he was trained in theoretical physics as well as optical engineering.