A "Grand Prix"
Awarded to a scientist who has made an exceptional contribution to the fields mentioned above through an outstanding body of work. “Grand Prix” : €30,000
Honoring outstanding European scientific contributions to three fields
with support from Fondation Mines-Télécom
Three fields – Two awards
Each prize will be awarded to a scientist of any nationality working in France, or in Europe in close collaboration with French teams.
- Digital transformation in industry,
- Engineering for the energy and the environment,
- Materials and manufacturing.
The Winners of the 2020 edition
The fully digitised 2020 ceremony was held on Tuesday 1st December.
Gaël Richard
IMT-Académie des Sciences Grand Prize
Gaël Richard is Professor, Head of the Image, Data, Signal department at Télécom Paris and Executive Director of Hi! Paris, the new research centre for artificial intelligence and data science at the Institut polytechnique de Paris and HEC.
His research work, anchored in the field of digital transformation sciences and technologies, focuses on the analysis, transformation and recognition of sound signals, and brings into play advanced principles of statistical signal processing, optimisation and machine learning. Read more (in French)
Étienne Perret
IMT-Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Award
Étienne Perret is a lecturer at Grenoble INP – Esisar, UGA and head of the ORSYS team at the Systems Design and Integration Laboratory (Grenoble INP – UGA/Université Grenoble Alpes); he is the head of the ERC Consolidator Grant ScattererID project.
Étienne Perret has made a major contribution in the field of chipless radio frequency identification. His work has shown the possibility of using radio waves to retrieve information stored on printed labels in the absence of direct visual contact. Read more (in French)
The Winners of the 2019 edition
The awards ceremony for this third edition was held on Tuesday, 26 November under the Cupola of the Institut de France.
Véronique Bellon-Maurel
IMT-Académie des Sciences Grand Prize
Measuring and quantifying have guided Véronique Bellon-Maurel’s entire scientific career. A pioneer in near infrared spectroscopy, her work has ranged from analyzing fruit to digital agriculture. Over the course of her fundamental research, Véronique Bellon-Maurel has contributed to the optimization of many industrial processes. She is now the Director of #DigitAg, a multi-partner Convergence Lab, and is the winner of the 2019 IMT-Académie des Sciences Grand Prize. Read more (in French)
Guillaume Balarac
IMT-Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Award
Turbulence is a mysterious phenomenon in fluid mechanics. Although it has been known and studied for centuries, it still hold secrets that physicists and mathematicians are striving to unlock. Guillaume Balarac is part of this research community. A researcher at Grenoble INP, he uses and improves simulations to better understand turbulent flows. His research has given rise to innovations in the energy sector. Guillaume Balarac, who has received the 2019 IMT-Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Award, discusses the scientific and industrial challenges involved in his field of research. Read more (in French)
The Winners of the 2018 edition
The 2018 edition of the awards ceremony took place on Tuesday, November 20th, under the Cupola of the Institut de France. During the ceremonial session, three winners were honored.
Ange Nzihou
“Grand Prix” joint winner
Ange NZIHOU, 52, director of the RAPSODEE UMR CNRS 5302, IMT Mines Albi.
Winner of the 2018 IMT – Académie des Sciences Grand Prix, this researcher has been working for over fifteen years on recovering waste to turn it into an important economic resource. By creating the global conference WasteEng, an international peer-reviewed journal, and an encyclopedia dedicated to waste reuse, he has helped bring together an international scientific community with a shared interest in this theme of the future. Read more on I’MTech
Pierre Comon
“Grand Prix” joint winner
Pierre COMON, research director at GIPSA-Lab, joint research center of CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP.
The research of Pierre Comon handles a topic as trivial as it is complex:
how to find a single solution to a problem? From the environment and telecommunications all the way through to health, this researcher in information sciences at GIPSA-Lab (joint research center of CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP) tackles many issues. Winner of the 2018 IMT – Académie des Sciences Grand Prix, he juggles mathematical abstraction and the concrete reality of the scientific field. Read more on I’MTech
Ioan-Mihai Miron
Young Scientist Prize
Ioan-Mihai MIRON, 38, research fellow at CNRS–CEA.
Ioan-Mihai Miron’s research in spintronics focuses on new magnetic data storage systems. Carried out in the Spintec lab, in Grenoble, it is still in the early stages. Nonetheless, it already shows huge potential in confronting the limits currently encountered by our computers’ memory technology. Ioan-Mihai Miron received the IMT – Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Prize for the innovative and promising nature of his work. Read more on I’MTech
A look back at the 2017 awards
Sébastien Bigo
“Grand Prix” joint winner
Sébastien Bigo, 47, is the director of research group “Réseaux IP et Optiques” at Nokia Bell Labs. Read the interview with Sébastien Bigo on I’MTech
Pierre Rouchon
“Grand Prix” joint winner
Pierre Rouchon, 57, is a professor at Mines ParisTech, and the director of the Mathematics and Systems research unit at the same school. Read the interview with Pierre Rouchon on I’MTech
Julien Bras
Young Scientist Prize
Julien Bras, 39, has been a lecturer and research supervisor at Grenoble INP- Pagora since 2006, as well as being deputy director of LGP2 (Paper Process Engineering Lab). Read the interview with Julien Bras on I’MTech.
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