Researcher portraits, Research
… the Institute of Optics Graduate School, CNRS) and Director at the Institute for the Sciences of Light . The … challenged the law in physics that objects smaller than a wavelength cannot be resolved; physicists who succeeded in … value actually increases by ten, a hundred or a thousand times and reveals two new physical properties. “When moving …
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… Researcher portraits Research Claire Thomas-Junius is the Director of the Exercise Biology Laboratory for Performance … Claire Thomas-Junius is a former middle-distance runner. It was only natural that she became interested in sports … Olympics. “All the studies were about men, it was about time that someone takes an interest in women!” Three …
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… Stéphane Bazot: understanding the ecology of the plant-soil system Stéphane Bazot: … in ecosystems ranging from grasslands to vineyard stormwater basins, forests and even golf courses! Stéphane Bazot … his research. “In our field, soil has been seen for a long time as a sort of black box. We now know that it’s an …
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… Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS) and Director of the Graduate School for Research and Higher … the competitive exams in science, David Néron thought he was destined to become a teacher. However... “My initial … can test their ideas much more quickly and save valuable time with their innovative work,” explains David Néron. The …
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… Frank Georgi: understanding the societal landscape through the history of trade … political, social and cultural developments. Frank Georgi was admitted to the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1981. At the same time, he took history courses at Université Paris 1 …
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Innovation, Research
… cars and operate social networks. However, because it is difficult for these systems to learn new skills efficiently, … of this evolution. These special algorithms mimic the way the brain works to solve complex problems. "The human … they have to learn everything all at once. Every time they learn something new, they almost instantly forget …
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… Researcher portraits Research Jacqueline Cherfils is CNRS Director of Research at the Laboratory of Biology and … inactive (OFF) to the active (ON) state , and shortly afterwards the first structure of a GTPase-activating protein. … A, the only GTPase inhibitor that was known at the time. In 2003, the biologist and her team discovered that …
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… — Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS) , where she has been Deputy Director since 2020. A specialist in the chemistry of living … work at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (ICP). "I was already studying biological phenomena at the molecular … working conditions directly, and within a reasonable time frame." This involvement reflects her taste for …
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… Fluorescent sponges to detect radioactive gases Fluorescent sponges to detect radioactive … specific phenomena and eventually lead to public health or waste management issues. Although relatively weak, the … radiation is in fact sufficient to penetrate one to two centimetres into living tissue. Radon ( 222 Rn), produced by …
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… Maaike van der Lugt: Exploring medieval history through science and medicine Maaike van der … into Latin between 1258 and 1266. Maaike van der Lugt was particularly interested in how this knowledge, ranging … historiques. (Heredity between the Middle Ages and modern times. Historical perspectives.) "I studied the concept of …
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… Claire de March: the discovery of the experimental structure of an olfactory … de Versailles - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In 2008, she was accepted into a professional Master's programme and … a sequence revealing the protein's dynamic life on a time scale down to the microsecond (µs or 10 -9 s). "This …
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… health Marina Kvaskoff is a member of the Exposome and Heredity team at the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and … on endometriosis, fighting relentlessly to fund and raise awareness of it, thus helping to make this disease central to … reactions and the formation of lesions that can sometimes lead to disabling pain. It affects 200 million women …
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