Lafosse graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and received a doctorate in material physics from Paris University, France.
Lafosse joined Corning in 1995 as a scientist at the Corning European Technology Center in France. He held several positions in R&D, developing a variety of glass and polymer optical materials and supporting several Corning businesses.
In 2007, he relocated with his family to Corning, NY and was appointed business technology director for Specialty Materials. In this position, he established critical technical capabilities in support of Corning® Gorilla® Glass business growth and contributed to several new product introductions.
In 2019, he was appointed commercial technology director, Advanced Optics. In this role, he works with customers and semiconductor industry leaders to identify new trends and opportunities and to drive the technology road mapping process.
For over 50 years, Corning Advanced Optics has met ever-increasing challenges to help enable semiconductor industry leaders produce smaller and more powerful chips. Corning has continuously invested in R&D to deliver an innovative and diverse set of glass and crystal components and advanced optical sub-assemblies for modern lithography scanners, optical inspection systems, and advanced packaging.
The explosion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerator demand has driven the need for innovative glass-based advanced packaging solutions to enable the most powerful AI systems. Today, Corning’s glass wafer carriers support High-Bandwidth Memory stacking and 2.5D packaging of chiplets on silicon interposers. Looking to future, our unmatched expertise in specialty glasses and years of groundbreaking Through Glass Via research efforts will enable us to deliver future glass substrates for heterogeneous integration, advancing our partnership with industry-leaders.