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Ester Mariucci: an explorer of mathematical elegance

… world of theoretical statistics." She then wrote her thesis on Le Cam's theorem applied to stochastic processes. … about elegance, but it enabled me, after completing my thesis in 2015, to move to Berlin to work in the team of … in its entirety. Of course, I had already taught during my thesis and in Berlin, but this time the responsibility was …

Published on: Tue 09/01/2024 - 18:03

Laure Quivy: when numerical analysis challenges randomness

… an innovative course at the time. Her studies led to her thesis, which she conducted in an industrial environment in … development. Exploring ferroresonance Laure Quivy's thesis sat at the intersection of physics and mathematics, … associated with the chaos theory popular at the time. Her thesis, defended in 1991, provided innovative numerical …

Published on: Wed 28/02/2024 - 07:35

Kęstutis Česnavičius, tackling mathematical conjectures

… discovered the question that was to interest him during his thesis in a presentation on the arithmetic of elliptic … Manin's conjecture to p-adic Hodge theory At the end of his thesis, Kęstutis Česnavičius decided to continue his career … teaching duties ‭– a rare opportunity at the end of a thesis. "My research then turned a corner, as I became …

Published on: Fri 03/05/2024 - 17:22

Élodie Béthoux: Employment in all its forms

… for the International Labour Office, and her Master’s thesis focused on this. “It was towards the end of the … of Social Europe, to which she devoted her Master’s 2 thesis in Social Science, followed by a thesis on European works councils , which she defended at …

Published on: Wed 29/09/2021 - 12:38

Isabelle Grenier: studying the interaction between cosmic rays and interstellar gas

… Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CEA, Univ. Paris Cité) , to begin a PhD thesis on gamma rays, tracers of the interstellar medium, … telescopes," explains the researcher. Indeed, during her thesis Isabelle Grenier started work on the data from the … Fermi space gamma-ray observatory. "When I started my PhD thesis work, most astronomers were looking at the sky with …

Published on: Fri 24/03/2023 - 10:12

Hope Valley AI: a new, more effective and ethical form of non-ionising breast imaging for the prediction and early detection of breast cancer

… business." So in 2015, Hakima Berdouz resumed her thesis, in parallel with her duties at the CEA. "It was a lot of work. I was juggling my work, my thesis and my life with a large family." She defended and finally obtained her thesis five years later, in 2020. In the same year, in the …

Published on: Wed 09/10/2024 - 18:00

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

… obtaining a scholarship, he decided to undertake a PhD thesis at EHESS in economics and mathematics on the problems … that he has since helped to update. He defended his PhD thesis in 1994 and spent a year at Université de Toulon et … This love of teaching originated when he was writing his thesis. "In an association, I taught mathematics courses to …

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

Jean-Pierre Hermier: the optics of semiconductor nanocrystals

… normale supérieure. After his military service, he wrote a thesis at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory on the quantum … beams emitted by semiconductor lasers. He defended his thesis in 2000. In 2001, he was recruited as a lecturer at … (ESPCI Paris). Together, in 2008, they succeeded in synthesising nanocrystals with a cadmium selenide (CdSe) core …

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

Muriel Boulakia: mathematics applied to the biomedical field

… equations From 2001 to 2004, Muriel Boulakia conducted a thesis in mathematics at the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics of UVSQ. Her thesis focused on fluid-structure interaction problems, i.e. … and mathematics has led her to explore this field. "My thesis subject, although theoretical, led me down this path …

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

Frédéric Taran: the chemistry of living cells

… INRAE) , which employs almost 70 people. He defended his thesis there in 1996 and was recruited in 1998, on his … Nobel Prize in 1969. Together with Charles Mioskowski, my thesis supervisor, he was one of the people who meant the … confides the researcher. He himself gave his doctoral thesis a boost in 2013, when he founded SYNDIVIA , a biotech …

Published on: Wed 15/05/2024 - 14:47

Doctoral missions: an opportunity to raise public awareness of science

… Cité). " Coming here also gives me a mental break from my thesis work ." However, Maria's day is far from relaxing. … mission with MISS for the last three years. During their thesis, PhD candidates have the opportunity to take on … to communicate your results is a crucial aspect of your thesis and it's another reason why I chose this mission ," …

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

Albert Fert: The art of physics

… young researcher could also open up new avenues.”’  From a thesis to the discovery of GMR Albert Fert’s thesis, which he submitted in 1970, already laid the first … for his research. “My idea was to harness the results of my thesis in nanostructures using the new tools of …

Published on: Thu 03/12/2020 - 15:01