[BACK IN PICTURES] Second solemn ceremony for the presentation of the French Academy of Sciences Awards

Stéphane Avril is a professor at Mines Saint-Étienne (MSE), a school of the Institut Mines-Télécom, where he heads the UMR SAINBIOSE (INSERM U1059, UJM, MSE).

He explores the mechanics of living organisms and biological processes, from the cellular scale to whole organs, with the aim of developing advanced numerical models. These tools enable doctors to make more accurate diagnoses of cardiovascular disease and tailor treatments to individual patients. 
 

Hervé Bourhy is a professor at the Institut Pasteur and Université Paris Cité, in the Department of Global Health.

He is interested in neurotropic viral zoonotic infections, their mechanisms of infection and propagation in the body, their dissemination in populations and their control. He works in particular on rabies and COVID-19, combining molecular biology, viral genetics, therapeutic approaches and eco-epidemiological analyses in a "One Health" approach. 
 

Post-doctoral fellow at Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics, Guillaume Chaverot studies the climate of telluric exoplanets using various numerical models. He works mainly with various teams on the scientific preparation of future instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile. He is also interested in laboratory spectroscopy to create, for the community, essential data for climate modelling.

Vincent Delecroix is a mathematician and computer scientist, CNRS research fellow at the Laboratoire bordelais de recherche en informatique, within the University of Bordeaux.

His research work blends dynamical systems, geometry, algorithmics and combinatorics. In particular, he has worked on the "wind in the trees" model introduced by physicists J. Hardy and J. Weber, on the mixing of translation flows on surfaces, or on the enumeration of quadrangulations in connection with the geometry of moduli spaces. 
 

Valentina Emiliani is research director at CRNS, Institut de la vision.

She and her team have contributed to major advances in optics and neuroscience for probing neural circuits, mixing holography, temporal focusing, multiphoton excitation, optogenetics and voltage imaging. It is now applying these approaches to visual circuits in mice and primates, while developing strategies for restoring vision in humans.
 

Louis Fensterbank is Professor at the Collège de France, holder of the Activations Chair in Molecular Chemistry, Molecular Activation Laboratory.

His research focuses on the development of new molecular synthesis methodologies and their applications to the synthesis of molecules with interesting properties (natural products, drugs, flavors among others). In particular, he is a specialist in radical chemistry and organometallic catalysis.

 

Teddy Furon is research director and head of the ARTISHAU project-team at the Inria Center at the University of Rennes.

He is interested in the security of multimedia content, with applications such as digital tattooing and traitor tracking. His research also focuses on the security of deep neural networks, which he studies in the face of attacks by luring, poisoning or theft of training data. 

 

Research Director at Inserm, Mohamed-Ali Hakimi heads the "Toxoplasmosis and host-parasite coevolution" team at the Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences in Grenoble.

He explores the molecular dialogues and conflicts between the Toxoplasma parasite and its hosts, which have shaped its persistence in humans and its transmission via cats over the course of evolution. He tracks the presence of the parasite in the brain using new markers and develops innovative therapies against toxoplasmosis.

Professor at the University of Poitiers and member of the Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Applications, Joseph Lehec conducts his research at the interface between probability and analysis, with a particular interest in high-dimensional phenomena.

In particular, he studies functional inequalities, such as concentration inequalities, in connection with the asymptotic theory of convex bodies. He is also interested in stochastic algorithms, in particular high-dimensional sampling issues. 

 

Gianni Liti is Director of Research at the CNRS, Institut de recherche sur le cancer et le vieillissement in Nice. He is interested in population genomics and seeks to understand how genetic variation regulates complex traits, using yeast as a model system. This knowledge sheds light on the evolutionary processes that shape natural populations over time. Collectively, his work has contributed to our understanding of the origin, evolution and domestication of yeast.

Isheng Jason Tsai is Professor and Research Director of Evolutionary Genomics at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
He studies the evolution and diversity of fungi and yeasts in Asian ecosystems. His research focuses on the diversity, evolution and interactions of microorganisms in natural ecosystems. By integrating genomics, ecology and biogeography, he sheds light on the processes of adaptation and coevolution linking fungi, yeasts and plants in Asian forests.
 

Researcher at IRD, Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation Laboratory, Eva Maire is a sustainability scientist.

Her research is interdisciplinary and addresses issues related to marine resource management, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Her current research focuses on the contribution of artisanal fisheries to human health and nutrition in tropical regions.

 

Fanny Mann is CNRS research director at the Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille (IBDM).

She leads a team exploring the role of the nervous system in cancer development. Her research focuses on how tumors attract peripheral nerves into their microenvironment, notably by reactivating processes involved in the formation of the nervous system. She also seeks to understand how these nervous remodellings can, depending on the context, support tumor progression or, on the contrary, slow it down.


 

Anne Moreau is director of the Jacques Hadamard Library in the Mathematics Department at Orsay and editor-in-chief of the Panoramas & Synthèses collection.

Her research lies between representation theory and algebraic geometry, and her first results focused on Lie theory. She then explored arc spaces and motivic invariants of spherical varieties. She is currently studying vertex algebras, in particular W-algebras, through their associated varieties, motivated by conformal field theory in physics.

 

Jean-Michel Muller is a research director at the CNRS, and a member of the LIP Laboratory.

He is interested in computer arithmetic, and in particular studies algorithms that enable mathematical functions to be evaluated quickly and accurately. For several years, his work has focused on the table maker's dilemma, a key problem in ensuring that the same program, run on two different computers, gives the same, correct result. 

 

Research Director at CNRS, Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris (IPNP)4 and Institut Imagine, Alessandra Pierani leads the Genetics and Development of the Cerebral Cortex team, with a dual affiliation at IPNP (Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne) and Institut Imagine (Hôpital NeckerEnfants malades AP-HP). His research focuses on the role of transient neurons in the development, evolution and pathologies of the cerebral cortex. His team has demonstrated that abnormalities in transient neurons are responsible for brain malformations in humans.
 

Camille Puginier was a PhD student at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (University of Toulouse, CNRS).

She is interested in understanding the biology of a symbiosis between fungi and algae known as lichens. She uses bioinformatics and molecular biology approaches to study the evolution and molecular mechanisms that enable fungi and algae to establish this intimate relationship.

 

Dr Guy Rouleau has been Director of Neuro (Montreal Neurological Hospital-Institute) since 2013 and Senior Vice-President of the World Federation of Neurology.

For almost 35 years, he has been identifying genes linked to neurological and psychiatric diseases. He has discovered more than 20 genes and revealed new mutational mechanisms. A co-founder of the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, he has made The Neuro the first academic center to fully embrace these principles, accelerating discoveries in the service of patients and society.
 

Gudrun Schleiermacher is a pediatric oncologist, head of the RTOP (Translational Research in Pediatric Oncology) team within the INSERM U1330 and the Institut Curie Translational Research Department, and deputy director for translational research at the SIREDO center.

She studies the molecular mechanisms involved in the development of pediatric cancers and their resistance to treatment. Based on liquid biopsy analyses, her research has identified the role of clonal evolution and provided a better understanding of how genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer cells can contribute to tumor progression, opening up avenues towards new therapeutic approaches targeting these mechanisms.
 

Damien Texier is a CNRS research fellow at the Institut Clément Ader (ICA).

He is interested in the mechanical behavior, surface reactivity and durability of structural materials for aeronautical applications. His work aims to identify the localized oxidation-deformation synergy at the microscopic scale. He is developing experimental tools in correlative mechanical microscopy to study the heterogeneous behavior of materials.



 

Marie-France Vignéras is Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris Cité, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris rive gauche.

She is a member of the automorphic forms team at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu. She is interested in number theory and group representation theory. Her main works concern p-adic groups and the Langlands program. She is known for her proof published in 1980 of the existence of non-isometric isospectral Riemannian surfaces, These surfaces show that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum.