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… Venezuela and of French-American nationality, Indira David was destined for an academic career at an early age. After … College of Criminal Justice in New York, USA, in 1998 she was recruited as a technician at the Institute of … serotonin - in the management of anxiety and depressive disorder. In 2014, this work was rewarded the National Academy …
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… in thoracic oncology using patient data. This work was rewarded with a gold medal from the university, giving … behind the aggressiveness of bronchial cancers in order to develop early diagnoses and implement technological … "I made this decision as a result of my friendship with Jean-Charles Soria, the Centre's General Director at the …
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… did not yet know what path to take in her studies. "It was on the advice of my father, a chemist by training, that … it possible to study nuclei in very powerful rotation in order to better understand the forces at play in the … detection system, which will soon be installed at the focal plane of the S3 spectrometer (Super Separator Spectrometer) …
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… bit of modelling," the researcher explains. Irradiate in order to understand With her colleagues in the " Materials … fusion (ITER), small modular reactors (SMR), or nuclear waste conditioning matrices. "We subject these materials to … isotope separator, the Andromeda accelerator, and soon an implanter (a lower energy accelerator) from the Institute of …
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… graduated from secondary school in Italy, Ester Mariucci was a well-rounded student, equally interested in the … Today she explains that she chose to study science in order to "have it all". "At that time, I naively thought … choosing mathematics over other scientific disciplines, it was obvious to me, as I found it so immediately satisfying," …
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… specific phenomena and eventually lead to public health or waste management issues. Although relatively weak, the … of stars, is found on Earth as a byproduct of radioactive waste processing and accounts for 99% of man-made … their research towards materials with novel properties, in order to develop new systems that redefine current …
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… to study physical sciences with the intention of working on waste recycling. However, he soon shifted his focus to … in 1979. His diploma of advanced studies (DEA) internship was dedicated to the plastic deformation of olivine, a … approach for determining their stabilisation conditions, in order to provide manufacturers with a guarantee that these …
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… this discipline. He chose to do his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in … While his thesis focused on the tau protein, which was suspected – and rightly so – of being linked to … of this protein was to bind itself to microtubules in order to stabilise them. Embracing academic freedom At …
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… research programmes on these topics. In 2023, she was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher. Researcher … in the therapeutic management of patients. This intuition was confirmed during my early days in oncology; in addition … the best therapeutic strategy for each individual, in order to improve the outcomes of first-line treatments for …
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… service as a teacher in a secondary school in Togo. " It was a great experience ," he says. The young physicist then … explains Philippe Mendels. "It is a model system of disorder in condensed matter physics." In 1998, he was promoted … resonance (NMR). " The idea was to disrupt the copper planes at the atomic level with non-magnetic impurities, …
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… of bacteria on petri dishes, the DNTech start-up wants to democratise new, less polluting and more effective … into things and instead validate a number of points in order to prove the desirability and feasibility of our … to be used by quality control laboratories in production plants that manufacture foodstuffs with a short use-by date, …
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… on the major evolutionary transitions that have shaped our planet. She is also a member of the French Académie des … age, which led her to study biology. At university, she was first introduced to the world of plants, and then to … and the ecology of little-explored environments, in order to address fundamental questions about the origin of …
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