Stephane Redon is co-founder and CEO of OneAngstrom, the developers of the SAMSON platform for molecular design: https://www.samson-connect.net. Until September 2018, Stephane was a senior researcher at Inria and the leader of the NANO-D group that he started in 2008 to develop algorithms for nanoscience. His research has been funded by Inria, ANR and the European Research Council. He has been teaching at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris since 2005, where he is still a part-time professor (teaching C++ and computational nanoscience with SAMSON). He is the principal architect and lead developer of the SAMSON software platform for molecular modeling.