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Philippe Bourges: The hidden order of matter

… The 2020 winner of the Science and Innovation CEA prize from the French Academy of science, Philippe Bourges is a … this phase, known as the ‘pseudo-gap’, everything should become clearer,” asserts the researcher. Thanks to a prediction by an American theoretician (Pr. Chandra Varma from Lucent technologies/Bell Labs, with whom Philippe …

Published on: Thu 04/03/2021 - 11:04

David Elbaz: The Big Bang, and after that?

… David Elbaz enthuses, "we are in dialogue with researchers from all over the world, each one studying a small part of … the universe is the history of light. Interferometry, which combines the wavelengths of light, makes it possible to … of galaxies, this galaxy is 53 million light-years away from us. No longer forming stars, it is considered to be …

Published on: Fri 28/06/2019 - 09:00

GRANDMA - the ‘Swiss army knife’ of multi-messenger astronomy

… the sky. Recent detections of gravitational waves resulting from the coalescence of compact objects represent a major breakthrough for various … and April 2020, revealed new binary systems very different from those discovered up until this point involving massive …

Published on: Thu 16/07/2020 - 10:11

Probiotics to prevent respiratory infections in the elderly

… (microbiota and digestive and respiratory health) team from the Institut de microbiologie de l’alimentation au … It is within this framework that Muriel Thomas’ team from the MICALIS Institute has been interested in recent … ages and a difficulty in forming long-term immunity, which compromises the effectiveness of vaccines in the elderly in …

Published on: Tue 23/02/2021 - 09:56

BAYOEN, organic transistors for improving health

… functionalities or architectures of biological systems for computing and information processing. Hans Kleemann … in particular organic electrochemical transistors (OECT), from which he is developing neural networks for artificial … device concepts for applications in various fields, ranging from telecommunications to medicine.   Circuits able to …

Published on: Thu 22/07/2021 - 08:56

Benoît Gabrielle: The energy of the living

… École Centrale and initially an energy specialist, he has become a bio-economist in the "sciences of sustainability", … of these biofuels, which at the time were mainly produced from rapeseed." The initial assessments were unfavourable … "We were making an inventory of everything that goes on from farm to fork".    Second-generation biofuels "While in …

Published on: Fri 07/01/2022 - 15:18

Lou Barreau: Observing light-matter interaction on extremely short time scales

… to potentially any molecule in the gas phase." Lou Barreau combines nonlinear optical methods, femtosecond lasers and … short time scales during her PhD, which she carried out from 2014 to 2017 at the Interactions, Dynamics and Lasers … of frequency drift amplification developed by Gérard Mourou from France and Donna Strickland from Canada. Their work was …

Published on: Thu 10/03/2022 - 11:24

PEBBLES: Observing stardust

… the size of tiny grains of dust located light-years away from Earth, in areas where new stars are emerging. The term … Contrary to popular belief, the space between stars is not completely empty: it contains gas and around 1% silicate, … Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Université Paris Cité) . From 2015 to 2022, with the MagneticYSOs project, winner of …

Published on: Fri 13/10/2023 - 09:10

Delphine Neff: preserving our heritage and securing our nuclear future through the study of metal corrosion

… and heritage. After graduating in Materials Engineering from Polytech Orléans in 1999, Delphine Neff developed a … in a historical context. In 2000, she pursued this path by completing a DEA (“Diplôme d'études approfondies”, now … Neff studied some 50 archaeological objects, such as nails, from six different archaeological sites. She cut these …

Published on: Thu 19/10/2023 - 15:22

Muriel Boulakia: mathematics applied to the biomedical field

… UVSQ, National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS) . From analysing fluid-structure interaction problems to … ENS Rennes) in Brittany, after successfully passing the competitive exam in her third year. In 2000, she passed her … team. In 2015, Muriel Boulakia successfully presented her Accreditation to Supervise Research at the LJLL. Then, in …

Published on: Mon 05/02/2024 - 07:35

Igor Ferrier-Barbut: Exploring light on the atomic scale

… encouraging work has recently earned him a research grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and the 2022 Jacques Herbrand Prize from the Academy of Science. The son and grandson of … behaviour of a system containing a large number of atoms becomes very difficult when they are interacting with each …

Published on: Thu 30/03/2023 - 16:52

Agrosciences, Environment, Territory, Landscape, Forest

… Safia Mediene - safia.mediene@agroparistech.fr Learning outcome targets The aim of the degree in Agro-sciences, the … of resource management, in particular ecological issues (from maintaining biodiversity to controlling invasive species), food (from food deprivation to ecological methods of agricultural …

Published on: Fri 17/01/2020 - 11:47