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CNRS Silver Medal
The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, recognised on a national and international level". It is part of the "CNRS Talents" medals, along with the CNRS Gold Medal, CNRS gold medal, which rewards a whole scientific career, the CNRS bronze medal, which rewards young researchers, the Innovation medal, which honours remarkable work in the technological, therapeutic, economic or societal fields, and the CNRS Crystal medal, which rewards research support staff. Notable recipients * Gabriel Peyré (mathematics) (2021) * Marie-Hélène Verlhac (biology) (2021) * Claire Mathieu (computer science) (2019) * Margaret Maruani (sociology) (2014) * Marie-Françoise André (2011) * Anca Muscholl (mathematics) (2010) * Edith Heard (biology) (2008) * Marc Fontecave (2004) * Leanne Pitchford (ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French National Centre For Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engineers and technical staff, and 7,085 contractual workers. It is headquartered in Paris and has administrative offices in Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Bonn, Moscow, Tunis, Johannesburg, Santiago de Chile, Israel, and New Delhi. Organization The CNRS operates on the basis of research units, which are of two kinds: "proper units" (UPRs) are operated solely by the CNRS, and Joint Research Unit, Joint Research Units (UMRs – ) are run in association with other institutions, such as List of colleges and universities in France, universities or INSERM. Members of Joint Research Units may be either CNRS researchers or university employees (Academic ranks in France, ''maîtres de conférences'' or ''professeurs''). Each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Peyré
Gabriel Peyré (born 1979) is a French mathematician. Most of his work lies in the field of transportation theory. He is a CNRS senior researcher and a Professor in the mathematics and applications department of the École normale supérieure in Paris. He was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2021. Life and work His work mainly focuses on applied mathematics, in particular on the imaging sciences and machine learning applications of optimal transport. Gabriel Peyré is also the deputy director of the 3IA Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute as well as a member of the scientific committee of the ENS center for data science. He is also the creator of the Numerical tour of data science, a popular online repository of Python/Matlab/Julia/R resources to teach mathematical data sciences. He is a frequent collaborator of the INRIA The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Hélène Verlhac
Marie-Hélène Verlhac is a French cellular biologist, specialising in the final stages of oocyte development. She was the recipient of the French National Centre for Scientific Research's (CNRS) Silver Medal in 2021. Verlhac has been the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB) (French: ''Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie'') since 2019, and the president of the French Society for Cell Biology (SBCF). Life and career In 1988, Verlhac began her studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She graduated from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) with a Master in Cellular and Developmental Biology in 1991, followed by a PhD in cellular and molecular biology in 1995, under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Maro. Her PhD studies also included a year studying under Prof. Hugh Clarke at McGill University. She undertook postdoctoral studies with Rik Derynck at the University of California, San Francisco. Verlhac returned to Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Mathieu
Claire Mathieu (formerly Kenyon, born 1965) is a French computer scientist and mathematician, known for her research on approximation algorithms, online algorithms, and auction theory. She works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.. Mathieu earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Paris-Sud, under the supervision of Claude Puech. She worked at CNRS and ENS Lyon from 1991 to 1997, at Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2002, at the École Polytechnique from 2002 to 2004, and at Brown University from 2004 to 2011 before returning to CNRS in 2012. She was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming and at the 2015 Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. She won the CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Maruani
Margaret Rose Maruani Rey (25 February 1954 – 4 August 2022) was a Tunisian-born French sociologist and director of research at the (CNRS) in Paris. She was the founder and of the |
Marie-Françoise André
Marie-Françoise André (born 1953 in Paris) is a French geographer and geomorphologist specialising in landscape architecture in the polar regions (Labrador, Spitsbergen, Lapland, Antarctica). She also researched stone erosion in the context of heritage preservation, particularly in Angkor. Her work was awarded the silver medal from CNRS, the French national centre for scientific research. Biography André completed her third-cycle thesis on the geomorphological evolution of Northern Labrador in 1981. Her state doctoral thesis was focused on the evolution of slopes in Spitsbergen. Advised by Alain Godard, she defended the thesis in 1991. A teacher-researcher in geomorphology, she was a member of CNRS's URA 1562 team in Clermont-Ferrand in 1993. That same year, she joined the newly founded Physical and Environmental Geography Laboratory (GEOLAB) in the same year.. She was director of GEOLAB for nine years, from 1998-2007. She studied landscape changes over time and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anca Muscholl
Anca Muscholl (born 1967) is a Romanian-German mathematical logician and theoretical computer scientist known for her work on formal verification, model checking, and two-variable logic. She is a researcher at the (LaBRI), a professor at the University of Bordeaux, and a former junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Education and career Muscholl was born in Bucharest, came to Germany as a teenage refugee in 1984, and won first place in two German national mathematics competitions (the ) in 1985 and 1986. She earned a master's degree at the Technical University of Munich, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Stuttgart in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Über die Erkennbarkeit unendlicher Spuren'', was supervised by Volker Diekert and published by Tuebner in 1996. She also earned a habilitation at the University of Stuttgart in 1999. After becoming a professor at Paris Diderot University in 1999, she moved to the University of Bordeaux in 2006. Recognition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Heard
Edith Heard (born 1965) is a British-French researcher in epigenetics who has been serving as the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since January 2019. She is also Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory. In 2025 she will become CEO of the Francis Crick Institute in London, U.K. From 2010 to 2018, Heard was the Director of the Genetics and Developmental Biology department at the Curie Institute (Paris), France. Heard is noted for her studies of X-chromosome- inactivation. Education Heard graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences (Genetics) from the University of Cambridge as a student of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating in 1986. She was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London for research investigating gene amplification in rat cells in 1990 while working at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory in London, UK. Career and research Heard's main areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Fontecave
Marc Fontecave (born 27 September 1956) is a French chemist. An international specialist in bioinorganic chemistry, he currently teaches at the Collège de France in Paris, where he heads the Laboratory of Chemistry of Biological Processes. Biography Marc Fontecave is a graduate of the École normale supérieure de l'enseignement technique (which became the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in 2016), and holds a doctorate in science. In 2005, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences and in 2019 foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Since 2008–2009, he holds the Chair of Chemistry of Biological Processes at the Collège de France. He chairs the Fondation du Collège de France and is a member of the EDF scientific council. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Pitchford
Leanne Carolyn Pitchford (born 1950) is a retired physicist known for her work on the numerical modeling of low-temperature plasma, and in the LXCat project for open exchange of low-temperature plasma data. Educated in the US, she worked in France as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie (Laplace) at the University of Toulouse. Education and career Pitchford majored in physics and mathematics at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University–Commerce), graduating in 1970. She went to the University of Texas at Dallas for doctoral study in physics, completing her Ph.D. there in 1976. Her dissertation, ''Development of a Quantitative Model for High Power Pulsed Lasers'', was supervised by Carl B. Collins, and concerned gas lasers. After postdoctoral research at CEA Paris-Saclay in France and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Joulin
Guy Joulin is a French scientist at Aix-Marseille University who works in the field of combustion. Biography Guy Joulin obtained his PhD degree from University of Poitiers in 1979 under the supervision of Paul Clavin. Joulin is the recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal The CNRS Silver Medal is a scientific award given every year to about fifteen researchers by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). It is awarded to a researcher for "the originality, quality and importance of their work, re ... (1996). See also References External links * French fluid dynamicists Living people Fellows of the Combustion Institute Year of birth missing (living people) University of Poitiers alumni {{France-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
