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Nine prizes from the French Academy of Sciences awarded to researchers from Université Paris-Saclay

Talents Article published on 25 November 2020 , Updated on 16 January 2024

Nine researchers from laboratories linked to Université Paris-Saclay, are winners of the French Academy of Sciences' 2020 awards:

 

Philippe Bourges, a researcher at the Léon Brillouin Laboratory (LLB - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS), is the winner of the 2020 Science and Innovation Grand Prize from the CEA for his work on quantum materials (high critical temperature superconductors in particular).

 

 

Guy David, a researcher at the Orsay Mathematics Laboratory (LMO - University of Paris-Saclay, CNRS), has been awarded the 2020 Ampère Electricity of France prize for his work on the geometric theory of measurement, the calculation of variations and partial differential equations.

 

 

Claude Fermon, a researcher at the Condensed State Physics Department (SPEC - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS), has been awarded the 2020 Emilia Valori Grand Prize for his work on magnetic sensors and for his efforts to promote them.

 

 

Basile Gallet, a researcher at the Condensed State Physics Department (SPEC - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS), has been awarded the 2020 Jacques Herbrand prize for his experimental work on turbulence.

 

 

 

Ruxandra Gref, head of the NanoBio team at the Orsay Institute of Molecular Sciences (ISMO - Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS), is the winner of the 2020 SEQENS prize from the French Academy of Sciences for her work on nanomedicines for the treatment of infections and cancer, such as nanoparticles not recognised by the immune system and organic-inorganic hybrids.

 

 

Maëlle Kapfer, currently a post-doctoral student in the Department of Physics at Columbia University in New York, is the winner of the 2020 Madeleine Lecocq prize for her thesis work on the fractional quantum Hall effect carried out in the Condensed State Physics Department (SPEC - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS).

 

 

Jean-Marie Mirebeau, a researcher at the Centre Borelli (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay), is the winner of the 2020 GAMNI-SMAI Blaise Pascal prize for his work on the design and study of numerical schemes for the resolution of highly anisotropic partial differential equations, applied to optimal control and transport, mathematical image processing, seismic tomography and GPU computing.

 

 

Guillaume Montagnac, a researcher in the Tumour Cell Dynamics Unit (Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, Institut Gustave Roussy), is the winner of the 2020 René Turpin Cancer Prize - Foundation of the Institute of France for his work on the regulation of cancer cell migration by the tumour microenvironment.

 

 

Olivier Schiffmann, researcher at the Orsay Mathematics Laboratory (LMO - Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS), is the winner of the 2020 Gabrielle Sand prize for his work on the geometric theory of representations, the theory of Lie algebras and quantum groups of infinite dimension, the enumerative geometry of the spaces of quiver or vector fibre representation modules on curves, and algebraic combinatorics.