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Sport and gender: What is the situation in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
… in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games? This article was originally published in L'Édition n°24. 10,500 is the … in Gothenburg, Sweden. The women's 800 metres in 1928 After intense debate, the IOC finally decided to open five … Do these characteristics confer a physical advantage over other sportswomen? These are all questions that …
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Université Paris-Saclay is proud of its selected students
… a sports career, ensuring a smooth professional transition after they finish their sporting careers. This summer, … - Dora Tchakounte A third-year student, Dora Tchakounte was crowned French champion in the under-58 kg category in … winning bronze at the 2021 European Championships. She was selected for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where she finished …
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Emmanuelle Deleporte: The photovoltaic revolution
… industry in 2012. However, Emmanuelle Deleporte was not destined to work in this field and her career took a … on the emission properties of these structures.” After her PhD and working as a lecturer at the “Laboratoire … Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS). She was director of the Physics Department at ENS Cachan from …
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Laurie Calvet: From transistors to bio-inspired nanotechnology
… functions to create new computing machines. Laurie Calvet was born in America and received a comprehensive academic education in her native country. After completing a degree in Applied Physics at the … under the supervision of Mark Reed. The physicist, who was the first to coin the phrase “quantum dot” to describe a …
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Sandra Charreire Petit: modelling the learning process
… likes to say, “A true product of the university system”. After studying Economics at Université Paris-Nanterre and a … while hoping that no one would ever use them. This paradox was a first in the history of management and deserved to be … Promoting the ‘soft sciences’ Sandra Charreire Petit has always felt it is important to promote dialogue between …
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Circulating DNA offers hope for lung cancer
… (PMNCO - Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy, Inserm) , was selected in the 2021 call for university hospital … including digital PCR,” emphasises Benjamin Besse. The disadvantage of this approach is that it requires knowledge of … The first concerns the measuring of any residual disease after surgery or radiotherapy. Micrometastases sometimes …
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Stéphane Bazot: understanding the ecology of the plant-soil system
… in ecosystems ranging from grasslands to vineyard stormwater basins, forests and even golf courses! Stéphane Bazot … – without much success – tulips,” says the lecturer. It was therefore not surprising that once he had completed his … oilseed rape with related wild species in the field. After this, I went on to do a PhD at the INRA laboratory in …
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Dimitri Houtcieff: a specialist in contract law with multiple implications
… In addition to teaching, writing is his favourite way of passing on his knowledge. After completing a Master’s in Business Law at Université … staff. “This position provides me with an excellent vantage point for observing the research output of young … In addition to teaching, writing is his favourite way of passing on his knowledge. After completing a Master’s …
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Emmanuel Flurin: When quantum technologies play with the laws of the Universe
… passing axions should disintegrate in the form of a microwave photon. So far, there's no sign of it, but you have to … new ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, those of microwaves, wireless telecommunications and also MRI. This is a … de-excites. Since de-excitation only occurs spontaneously after a very long time, it is accelerated by using a …
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Fluorescent sponges to detect radioactive gases
… specific phenomena and eventually lead to public health or waste management issues. Although relatively weak, the … the second leading cause of lung cancer in France, after tobacco. Although less dangerous and initially … beta particles, which are easier to detect. Another advantage of this gas is its lack of induced contamination, …
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DNTech develops new technology for pathogen detection in the food industry
… of bacteria on petri dishes, the DNTech start-up wants to democratise new, less polluting and more effective … a project called BacterioDec in 2020. Their objective was to design a rapid, sensitive and affordable detection … their work. The DNTech start-up was born in November 2022, after acquiring support from Sorbonne University's Pépite …
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