Research
… to understand how labour is divided among social insects. Awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2024, Julie Carcaud is … Ecology Laboratory (EGCE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/IRD) . Awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her Olfatask project in … worker bees that decide which egg will be fed royal jelly long enough to become a queen, and the rules remain unknown …
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Education, Culture, Campus life
… largely unknown profession on the Orsay campus This article was originally published in L'Édition n°26 . Based on the … Culture Campus life On 8 November 2024, a unique event was held at the Lumen on the Saclay plateau. At lunchtime, … " In practice, this profession has been around for a very long time. But prior to the 1980s, there was no official …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… of mathematicians. Researcher portraits Research "I always wanted to teach," reveals Marie-Anne Poursat. This … organisms through the evolution of their DNA sequences, along a ‘phylogenetic’ tree. At the time, models were … of mathematicians. Researcher portraits Research "I always wanted to teach," reveals Marie-Anne Poursat. This …
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International-Europe
… A strategic Franco-British partnership to push forward artificial intelligence for science, the economy and … society A strategic Franco-British partnership to push forward artificial intelligence for science, the economy and … European scale. The aim of the partnership is to structure long-term cooperation in AI research, training and …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… Regional Health Agency (ARS). In July 2025, he was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour. Joël Ankri … Sorbonne University) in 1969, at a time when modern biology was in its infancy. In 1978, he defended a thesis in … complex pathologies of cerebral ageing. This disease was long ignored and attracted only marginal interest until the …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… discipline, she is convinced that major discoveries are always the result of collective work. Nothing predestined … for understanding the world," says the researcher. She was fascinated by physics' ability to describe the invisible … in 2012, to the discovery of the Higgs boson — a particle long predicted by theory and essential to understanding the …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… the entrance exam reserved for foreign students. She was particularly interested in applied mathematics and … and the stability of continuous-time quantum filters" and was the result of her meeting with researchers Mazyar … becomes unmanageable, even for supercomputers. We are no longer working on two or three isolated qubits, but on real …
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Innovation
… Innovation In response to the ecological transition, new ways of eating have been emerging in recent years: edible insects, by-products and algae are finding their way onto plates as alternatives to animal protein. With a … industrial scale. Large-scale commercialisation is planned alongside the full opening of the Normandy site, scheduled …
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… Places 30 French Full-time academic programmes Life-long learning Master 2 Le M2 «Mathématiques pour les … their scaling limits for large populations and study the long time behavior of the limiting processes. This is … where individuals are characterized by a trait belonging to a continuum. Type of assessment Evaluation …
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Research
… More Reliable and More Agile Drones Research (This article was originally published in L'Édition No.17 ) When used … of these machines. You can often hear it buzzing long before you can see it. Whether it has fixed or rotating … has grown, whether it is to assist people, deliver parcels, watch over fields, or even inspect facilities. This …
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Research
… how CO 2 has evolved over time and to estimate how long the CO2 added by humans will remain in the atmosphere … on complex systems modelling. Although the scientist was initially interested in the carbon cycle in terrestrial … this modelling has focused mainly on exchanges of energy, water and carbon between atmosphere, oceans and continental …
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Research
… undergoing change Among the areas most exposed to global warming, the polar regions are particularly important given … Paris- Saclay, several research projects are currently underway in these regions to better understand the changes … is covered by an ice cap several kilometers thick. Long perceived as extremely stable regions, these areas are …
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