The Falling Walls Lab Global Finale, international competition showcasing breakthrough scientific research and innovation, takes place this Friday in Berlin. Sooyong Chae, a third-year Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM*), will represent École Polytechnique, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and France. As part of Tatiana Novikova’s Applied Optics and Polarimetry (AOP) team, he is working on the application of polarimetric imaging in surgery.
The Research Network on Innovation awarded two thesis prizes to Juliette Keohane. Darina Bulatova, a doctoral student, received an award for a paper presented at the Innovation and Product Development Management Conference.
The Ecole Polytechnique is proud to have three female researchers among the 35 winners of the 2026 edition: Kate Sorg, PhD student at the Laboratory...
Francis Bach (X1994), a research director at Inria, and Romain Lopez (X2013), a professor at New York University, are among the researchers in the Class of 2026 of the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program. The first has been named a Senior Fellow, while the second is joining the program as an Early Career Fellow. Both will focus their work on research issues related to the development of safe and beneficial artificial intelligence.
Gwendal Hénaff, from the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*), and Sooyong Chae, from the Laboratory of Physics of Interface and Thin Film (LPICM*), were recognized at the i-PhD 2026 competition for their doctoral research. They will receive support for developing their entrepreneurial projects. This demonstrates how research that begins as basic science can become the driving force behind practical applications.
Étienne Minvielle, Professor and CNRS Research Director at the École Polytechnique’s Center for Management Research (i3-CRG, jointly administered with...
This award recognizes a career dedicated to the study of quantum phenomena and the development of new experimental approaches in physics. Jacqueline Bloch, a CNRS research director at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N)—a joint CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay unit—is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Twelve Collaborative Scientific Projects (PSC) were selected by the teaching and research departments from among the 113 PSCs in the X2024 cohort. A jury composed of prominent figures from academia, the business world, and the media selected three of them during the final round, which took place on September 14.
Vicky Kalogeiton, a researcher at the École Polytechnique’s Computer Science Laboratory (LIX*), has just received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The goal of her research project FLASH is to make generative image AI more efficient, more accessible, and more sustainable.
Four Cycle Ingénieur polytechnicien students participated in the 2026 International Mathematics Competition, held in Bulgaria from July 27 to August 2. They once again distinguished themselves with their excellent results, winning four First Prizes, including a Grand First Prize awarded to Georges Tézé, who ranked 5th overall. A fifth Cycle Ingénieur polytechnicien student, Aymane Bouhsain, also won a silver medal.
Chinese mathematician Hong Wang (Class of 2010 and recipient of an honorary doctorate from École Polytechnique) has been awarded the 2026 Fields Medal, the highest international honor in mathematics. Honored for her proof of Kakeya's conjecture in three-dimensional space, she became the third woman in history to receive this prestigious award. This award highlights the excellence of her scientific career and reflects her close ties to École Polytechnique, where mathematics plays a central role in the training of engineers and researchers.
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