Dr. Frederic Trillaud graduated in electrical engineering from the French engineering school, École Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP), in 1999. He received a master's degree in 2000 in electrical engineering from the University of Orsay France and his PhD in September 2005 on the “Study of the thermo-electronic stability of LTS conductors and contribution to the study of the thermoelectric stability of HTS conductors” from The Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), France. Part of the PhD program, he visited from 2001 to 2003 the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) in Tallahassee, FL, USA, as a research scholar. From 2005 to 2007, he was appointed post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop in collaboration with American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) detection and protection systems for superconducting magnets. From 2007 to 2010, he was hired as mechanical engineer at the Ernesto Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) working on cryogenic systems, mechanical characterizations of superconducting cables and wires, development of data acquisition systems and electromagnet design. Since 2011, he has been working with the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico to develop superconducting power systems. In 2013, he was appointed lecturer at the graduate school of Engineering and research assistant professor at the Institute of Engineering and in September 2017, research associate professor. 

He is currently leading various projects related to applied superconductivity for the power grid. These projects have included the development of superconducting fault-current limiters and power cables in collaboration with the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo CARSO of the Mexican company Servicio Condumex S.A. and recently the laboratory GeePs of the French Engineering School CentrlaleSupélec. He has led the development of a superconducting undulator for the new generation of Indian free electron lasers in collaboration with the Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya University of Indore, India, and he has collaborated with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Information of the University of Bologna on the characterization of superconducting commercial wires and tapes. Since 2013, he has initiated a project of a national stratospheric balloon in collaboration with the Faculty of Engineering and the national company REMTRONIC Telecomunicaciones. This project is now led by the Faculty of Engineering of UNAM includes the participation of the “Instituto Politecnico Nacional” and the “Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología” of the UNAM. Since 2015, a couple of sub-orbital flights over the country of light payloads has been successfully carried out. He was member of two large international collaborations: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) from 2009 to 2010 and the Japanese Experiment Module on board Extreme Universe Space Observatory (JEM- EUSO) from 2012 to 2015, and he has been actively part of two medium-size international collaborations, the Dark Matter in CCDs (DAMIC) and CONNIE since 2012 and 2016, respectively. Side projects have included the modelling of Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems (SMES), the design of a brushless motor for the compressor of commercial refrigerators produced by the national company Mabe through the leadership of the Faculty of Engineering (2011-2012) and the electromagnetic modeling of superconducting bulks in collaboration with the Université de Lorraine, France.