CNRS Silver Medals: four winning scientists from Université Paris-Saclay

Silver medal laureates

Sara Bolognesi is a researcher, and specialist in Standard Model physics and neutrinos, at the Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe – Particle Physics (DFR/IRFU – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CEA). Her work first explored the Higgs boson, before looking at neutrino oscillation, a quantum mechanical phenomenon, contributing to the T2K experiment (Tokai to Kamioka), a particle physics experiment in Japan. Sara Bolognesi is also head of the neutrino oscillation physics group in the international HyperKamiokande collaboration, and scientific lead for Irfu in the HyperKamiokande project. She also coordinates the flagship LabEx P2IO BSMNu project covering neutrino physics and is the CEA lead for the JENNIFER2 project in the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme.

Sarah Cohen-Boulakia is a university professor, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Computer Science Laboratory (LISN – Univ. Pairs-Saclay/CNRS/INRIA/CentraleSupélec) and Deputy Head of DATAIA, Université Paris-Saclay’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. As a computer scientist specialised in data science and issues related to the analysis and integration of biological and biomedical data, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia’s work explores the provenance and design of scientific workflows and the reproducibility of scientific experiments. She currently coordinates a project bringing together nine partners, as part of the Digital Health PEPR, and is also involved in the development of a French network on reproducibility, supported by the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research.

Amaëlle Landais-Israel is a CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CEA/CNRS/UVSQ/IPSL). As a climatologist and specialist in the reconstruction of past climates using glacial archives, she is known for her work on the study of several ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, which have contributed to our understanding of the paleoclimate. She currently develops high-precision methods for the measurement of stable isotopes in ice in order to interpret ice cores.

Aristide Lemaître is a CNRS research director at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/Univ. Paris Cité). For the past 15 years, he has carried out research on ferromagnetic semiconductors. He currently explores the growth and physics of topological insulators. He is recognised for his expertise in high finesse microcavity epitaxy for quantum optics applications, such as polariton manipulation, single photon and photon pair generation.