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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 … which he said led to everything," she recalls. This was the beginning of a journey to all four corners of … it possible to study nuclei in very powerful rotation in order to better understand the forces at play in the …
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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 … programmes, including the Nuclear: Energy, Environment, Waste, Society (NEEDS) programme of the CNRS's National …
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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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… de Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In 2008, she was accepted into a professional Master's programme and … "I didn't touch a single lab bench for three years!" She was aiming to model the olfactory process, from the capture … of odorant molecules to their processing in the brain, in order to decipher the interaction between molecules and …
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… Doctor in Gastroenterology at Saint-Antoine Hospital, who was writing a thesis on the analysis of the microbiota … its protective effect in murine models of colitis. "This was the beginning of a long story that changed our lives and … of commensal and probiotic microorganisms with the host, in order to gain a deeper understanding of these interactions …
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… While his thesis focused on the tau protein, which was suspected – and rightly so – of being linked to … Alzheimer's disease, one of the properties 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 … logic and scientific rigour." ». In 1984, the physicist was appointed as a lecturer at Université Paris-Sud, joining … explains Philippe Mendels. "It is a model system of disorder in condensed matter physics." In 1998, he was promoted …
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… 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 … into things and instead validate a number of points in order to prove the desirability and feasibility of our …
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… age, which led her to study biology. At university, she was first introduced to the world of plants, and then to that of microorganisms. "I was immediately fascinated by this invisible world. It made … and the ecology of little-explored environments, in order to address fundamental questions about the origin of …
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