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Jean-Marie Mirebeau: Calculating the shortest path

… perfectly adapted to the calculation of shorter paths in complex environments; we actually go faster when following a … pixels aligned with each other.” The objective is to move from this field of continuous ellipses to this grid of … Voronoi, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, or even Euclid. “I deduce from this a decomposition of the matrices representing these …

Published on: Fri 05/02/2021 - 16:16

Semi-precious stones - evidence of prehistoric skills and expertise

… it aims to uncover the evolution of the Burmese people from the time of the hunter-gatherers (3rd millennium B.C.) … which the scientists can then infer cultural practices. By comparing them with those of surrounding regions, they can … beads found in remains in the centre of Myanmar dating from the Neolithic period (end of the 2nd millennium BC) …

Published on: Wed 10/03/2021 - 09:43

SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production

… technology for reducing the CO 2 emissions which result from conventional hydrogen production. Its unique process … student at the “Énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion” (Molecular and macroscopic energetics, … its molecular properties. In 95% of cases, it is produced from fossil gases using processes which emit high levels of …

Published on: Wed 09/06/2021 - 08:45

Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau: Exploring graphene and states of matter

… Waals heterostructures earned her the Ernest Déchelle prize from the ‘Académie des Sciences’ (French Science Academy) at … have different properties, but we don’t know how to switch from one to the other, and especially how to change these … a two-dimensional material extracted from graphite and composed of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons or a …

Published on: Wed 19/01/2022 - 15:15

Jean-Pierre Hermier: the optics of semiconductor nanocrystals

… his DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in quantum physics from the École normale supérieure. After his military … the Group for the Study of Condensed Matter (GEMaC) . From 2010 to 2015, he was a junior member of the University … their main defect until then, and prevents them from being completely extinguished . "Nanocrystals are small balls that …

Published on: Mon 26/09/2022 - 15:18

Bénédicte Stengel: developing the epidemiology of kidney diseases

… epidemiology in France.  Bénédicte Stengel's goal was to become a general practitioner; her vocation has always been … and no team or expertise in this field in France." Far from holding her back, this observation became the driving … she says.   The emergence of a research network around CKD From that time, she worked increasingly closely with many …

Published on: Fri 21/10/2022 - 12:49

Denis David: fighting depression with new therapeutic goals

… Health (CESP - Univ. Paris-Saclay, Inserm, UVSQ) . He is committed to pushing the boundaries of research in order to improve care for patients suffering from depression. After completing a General Academic Studies … partnership with the Serotonin and Neuropharmacology team from Université Paris-Sud (absorbed into the CESP in 2020 …

Published on: Thu 20/07/2023 - 11:57

Institut des Cellules souches pour le traitement et l'étude des maladies monogéniques (I-STEM)

… stress is orchestrated by SMN shuttling between nuclear compartments Cécile Martinat 12/01/23 Nature Communications … homozygous SHANK3 knockout clonal pluripotent stem cells from the parental hESC line SA001 using CRISPR/Cas9 Laure … Generation of three induced pluripotent stem cell lines from patients with glycogen storage disease type III Lucille …

Published on: Wed 20/09/2023 - 07:25

Susanna Zimmermann, understanding birational transformations

… their work intrigued and attracted me," she explains. After completing her thesis in birational geometry in 2016 in … Stéphane Lamy, whose work was thematically close and from whom she knew she would learn a lot. The young … Angers, where she spent five years until she obtained her Accreditation to Supervise Research in 2021. Subsequently …

Published on: Wed 03/01/2024 - 11:35

Doctoral missions: an opportunity to raise public awareness of science

… including science outreach, science journalism, and science communication. Here are just a few examples of the options … Paris Cité). " Coming here also gives me a mental break from my thesis work ." However, Maria's day is far from relaxing. She has to lead an activity for a secondary …

Published on: Tue 17/06/2025 - 14:10

My Thesis in 180 seconds (MT180): the winners of 2023

… during the final of the “My Thesis in 180 seconds” competition, which took place on 15 March 2023. Doctorate … Ledaguenel for his thesis “Neuro-symbolic AI: learning from data and rules”. Arthur Ledaguenel is a PhD candidate … of the competition at the end of March.  The two winners, from left to right: Goran Stanajic Petrovic and Arthur …

Published on: Thu 01/06/2023 - 10:00

Géosciences Paris-Saclay (GEOPS)

… of the South China Sea during the past 30 kyr as inferred from neodymium isotopic composition in foraminifera Yi Huang, Christophe Colin, … Chemical Geology Redox control of chromium in the red soils from China evidenced by Cr stable isotopes Damien Guinoiseau …

Published on: Wed 20/09/2023 - 07:25