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The closure of schools, Covid-19 and children’s mental health

… from the moment schools closed in March through to June 2020. Numerous measures, either more or less restrictive, were … in children at the time of the school closures and detailed the various socio-economic factors associated with …

Published on: Wed 19/01/2022 - 14:29

Hugo Duminil-Copin is awarded the Fields Medal

… the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) since 2016, has been awarded the Fields medal at the International … classes at Lycée Louis-le-Grand. After receiving a Master’s degree from Université Paris-Sud, now Université … to study the critical behaviour of various models on networks, such as the Ising, the Potts, the self-avoiding …

Published on: Tue 05/07/2022 - 10:05

Fabienne Goldfarb, from light-matter interaction to laser dynamics

… and where, to put it simply, we had the opportunity to get our hands dirty!" says Fabienne Goldfarb from the outset. … This choice led her to complete a DEA (now equivalent to a Master's degree) in quantum physics at Université Pierre et … interference but this time with neutral macromolecules. In 2005, she was recruited as a lecturer at Université …

Published on: Fri 07/10/2022 - 15:05

Jean-Christophe Tavanti: Economics & Management at the crossroads of science

… of Economics & Management at ENS Paris-Saclay and, since 2020, Deputy Director of Education at the Graduate School … . For this economist, a specialist in financial markets, economics & management have an increasingly important … 3' (3rd-year of the undergraduate programme), then the Master's 1 in Economics, and then Director of the Department …

Published on: Thu 12/01/2023 - 15:27

A wave of Atlantic cultural exchange

… exchange Research (Article from l'Edition n.15 - february 2021) The analysis of cultural exchange between Europe, Africa and the Americas at the core of the …

Published on: Tue 09/03/2021 - 13:24

Nose, olfaction and fragrance: giving a sense to smell

… smell This article was originally published in  L'Édition n°25 . Long misunderstood, then unfairly ignored, the sense of … renewed public interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. And yet, scientists from a wide range of fields have been … most mammals to smell, dates back only to 1991. "More than 20 years after Man walked on the Moon!" says Claire de …

Published on: Wed 26/02/2025 - 15:28

David Attié and Sébastien Procureur: From Saclay's water tower to the Great Pyramid of Giza

… water tower to the Great Pyramid of Giza On October 16, 2018, researchers David Attié and Sébastien Procureur were … and reveal voids. Researcher portraits Research Since 2012, David Attié and Sébastien Procureur have worked as a … particles originating from cosmic rays – to characterize detectors and develop a "cosmic bench"1. "I always wanted to …

Published on: Wed 14/11/2018 - 09:00

SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production

… SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production … PhD. A former PhD student at the “Énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion” (Molecular and macroscopic …

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

Sophie Kazamias: Compressing the infinitely powerful

… ‘École Polytechnique’, this physicist has dedicated around 20 years to the Laserix platform , of which she is currently … This means that we don’t need buildings of hundreds of metres long to house the metal cavities used in current … third year of the undergraduate degree , and to first-year master’s in physics students, for whom she developed a …

Published on: Thu 31/03/2022 - 17:12

Pascal Corbel: A Business-Minded Academic

… professor at Université Paris-Saclay, a researcher in the Network, Innovation, Territories, Globalization (RITM - … what direction to take in his career after completing his Master’s degree. “I could see myself as a lecturer, a … his PhD, he received a postdoctoral contract at UVSQ in 2000, where two years later, he was appointed as an …

Published on: Thu 28/04/2022 - 16:06

François Sarfati: understanding the mechanisms of social vulnerability

… he then continued at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) where he defended his thesis in 2005. His thesis examined the mechanisms by which … on as a lecturer in a department of Social Sciences in 2006. There, the academic continued his research work by …

Published on: Thu 12/05/2022 - 15:30

Reading tree cores to better predict global warming

… Reading tree cores to better predict global warming Reading tree cores to better … a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant in January 2022. More than a third of the planet’s land surface is …

Published on: Thu 19/05/2022 - 16:31