Highlights
PhD students, researchers, engineers, professors... Key players who have left their mark on the world of research through prizes and publications, and an inventory of recent projects and discoveries..
Notable discoveries
- Green chemistry and biofuel: the mechanism of a key photoenzyme decryptedThe functioning of the enzyme FAP, useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists, including many French researchers from the CEA, CNR...Find out more
- COVID-19 Screening: A new model for assessing the efficiency of group testingHow best to evaluate the performance of a group testing strategy for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which involves pooling samples from multiple individuals to conduct a single RT-PCR test on the whole group? To do precisely that...Find out more
Awards and honors
- AppointmentProfessor Virgile Chassagnon of Université Grenoble Alpes, one of three nominees for Best Young Economist of France 2020At the age of 38, Virgile Chassagnon, professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and founding director of the Institut de recherche pour l’économie politique de l'entreprise (Research institute for the political economy of b...Find out more
- Accolade/AwardThe 2020 Grands Prix of the Foundations of the Institut de FranceThe Grand Prix Scientifique of the Charles Defforey Foundation, on the theme "Exoplanets", was awarded to Jean-Luc Beuzit [1], Anthony Boccaletti [2], Gael Chauvin [3], Thierry Fusco [4] , Maud Langlois [5] and David Mou...Find out more
Published on October 7, 2020
Updated onOctober 7, 2020
Updated onOctober 7, 2020
