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27.06.25
Track cycling sprint is also a matter of strategy
By analyzing over 1,500 races, including those at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, scientists from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*) shed light on the importance of racing tactics in individual sprint performance. The study was published in The International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport.
Research
24.06.25
The BIOC laboratory, 50 years of molecular and cellular biology
The Structural Biology of the Cell Laboratory (BIOC*) is celebrating its fiftieth year. From its beginnings as a biochemical laboratory, it now deals with biological issues on many different scales: atomic, molecular and cellular.
Education, Research
23.06.25
IP Paris rises 5 places in QS 2026 ranking to 41st worldwide
The Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which École Polytechnique is a founding member, is ranked 41st worldwide and 2nd in France in the QS 2026 ranking of world universities. The QS ranking covers 1,500 universities in 106 higher education systems.
International, Research
23.06.25
International Research Collaboration on Quantum Physics with Visiting Professor Igor Klep
The internationally renowned Slovenian mathematician Igor Klep is joining the Laboratory of Computer Science (LIX) and the Center for Theoretical Physics (CPHT) at École Polytechnique as a Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor. A professor of mathematics at both the University of Ljubljana and the University of Primorska in Slovenia, Igor Klep is collaborating on quantum information theory research with the PhIQus research group, led by Marc-Olivier Renou, INRIA Saclay Junior Professor Chair and affiliated researcher at LIX and CPHT.
Research
18.06.25
Arnak Dalalyan, a statistics specialist at CREST, receives an ERC Advanced Grant
Researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*), a laboratory of which he is also director, Arnak Dalalyan has just received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for a research project on generative artificial intelligence.
Research
16.06.25
Stefania Cacovich and Laurent Bopp receive CNRS medals
Stefania Cacovich, a researcher at the Institut Photovoltaïque d'Île-de-France (IPVF*), is to receive a bronze medal from the CNRS. Laurent Bopp of the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*) has been awarded a silver medal.
International, Research
12.06.25
Sooyong Chae and Ana-Maria Bratu awarded at the Three Minutes Thesis competition
Two PhD students from École Polytechnique's laboratories took top prizes at the final of the Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition, following their...
Research
11.06.25
A Nature article unravels superfluorescence in perovskites
An international team has published a study in the journal Nature analyzing how the quantum phenomenon of superfluorescence appears in perovskite materials. The Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI*) is involved, thanks in particular to the work of Antonia Ghita, a former student of École polytechnique's Bachelor's program.
Research
04.06.25
Michel Koenig receives the Alfvén 2025 award
The European Physical Society has awarded the Aflvén Prize to Michel Koenig, CNRS Research Director at the Intense Laser Laboratory (LULI*), for his contributions to plasma physics.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Research
23.05.25
Stilla technologies, a successful spin-off from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory
Stilla Technologies develops and markets high-precision genetic analysis systems now used by several hundred laboratories worldwide. The American group Bio-rad laboratories is to acquire it for $225 million. This successful company has its origins on École polytechnique campus, and more specifically in the hydrodynamics laboratory (LadHyX*), in Charles Baroud's group. Charles Baroud looks back on the first steps of this adventure, which began in 2011.
Research
19.05.25
Antonin Bergeaud (X2010), winner of the 2025 Best Young Economist Award
Antonin Bergeaud has graduated from the Cycle ingénieur polytechnicien program and is the winner of the 2025 Best Young Economist award. Currently associate professor at HEC Paris, he specializes in growth, productivity and innovation systems.
Corporate relations, Research
16.05.25
Inauguration of GenF, in which École Polytechnique is a scientific partner
Created in January 2025 by Thales, world leader in high-power lasers, GenF aims to develop and industrialize a process for creating a new, safe, abundant, inexpensive and non-polluting form of energy using the inertial confinement nuclear fusion process. The inauguration of its premises in Le Barp, south of Bordeaux, was attended by representatives of the various stakeholders involved.