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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

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

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

Jean-Michel Bismut: The geometrisation of probability

… in Mathematical Sciences. Jean-Michel Bismut graduated from the ‘École polytechnique’ in 1970 and the ‘École … In the same year, he also obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (which is Sorbonne … him even more determined to fulfil his true vocation and become a researcher. He became a lecturer at the École …

Published on: Thu 07/10/2021 - 13:54

TheraPanacea: using artificial intelligence to improve the quality and access to cancer treatment and beyond

… develop a software suite for analysing medical data (mainly from imaging) in order to standardise, facilitate and … patients the chance to receive the best treatment possible from amongst those available today, whether they go to a … statistical learning (or artificial intelligence) and computer vision - which involves interpreting data from …

Published on: Thu 16/06/2022 - 16:06

The origins of life: investigating exoplanets

… between solar radiation and the early atmosphere generated complex organic molecules which then reacted chemically and … is an imperfect model for the Earth as it is also too far from the Sun for water to be liquid. “Advances in … in December 2021 at a distance of 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. More powerful than any previous space telescope, …

Published on: Tue 20/09/2022 - 16:49