Roland Hérino is the Attaché for Science and Technology for the French Embassy at the Consulate General of France in Houston since September 2004. He was previously a Professor of Physics at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble , France .

After completing his thesis (Doctorat d'Etat,1981) on the conduction mechanisms in nematic  liquid crystals, he steered his research toward materials for microelectronics by joining the Research Center on the Integrated Circuits Norbert Segard of the National Center for Tele comm unications ( CNET ). Roland Hérino was appointed by Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble as a Professor in 1988 and joined the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique that same year in order to conduct research on the electrochemistry of semiconductors. Director of the Doctoral Studies in Microelectronics at the University of Grenoble from 1989 to 1995, he contributed to the development of the Interuniversity Center of Microelectronics (CIME) in Grenoble and taught the physics of semiconductors and electronic devices and the technology of integrated circuits. In 2000, he was nominated Director of the Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, a joint university –CNRS research unit of more than 140 researchers and technicians. At the end of his term, he took over the directorship of the Institut des Nanosciences de Grenoble, a Federative Research Institute which groups together 28 laboratories from physics, chemistry, biology, and the applied sciences and created to develop and coordinate multidisciplinary research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Grenoble. He headed university exchanges between Physics students in European countries for 8 years (1988-1996) and was responsible for three years of the European Socrates programs at the Joseph Fourier University (1997-2000). He is the author of more than 100 publications in international scientific journals and he has given numerous invited lectures in international conferences.