Manon Blanc, Polina Perstneva, and Bianca Marin Moreno win L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards

Three young researchers from École Polytechnique receive the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talent Award. Thirty-four doctoral and postdoctoral students are recognized for their research work. The jury was chaired by Françoise Combes, astrophysicist and President of the French Academy of Sciences.

07 Oct. 2025

Research, Awards, École polytechnique

Manon Blanc

Manon Blanc completed her thesis at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX*). Her fundamental research focuses on computability and complexity. In particular, she seeks to determine the computing time and memory resources required to solve certain problems. Manon Blanc is now a postdoctoral researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Polina Perstneva

Polina Perstneva is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP*). Her research focuses on the fields of harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, and dynamical systems. One of the challenges, for example, is to find the physical conditions that allow a gas particle to uniformly reach objects with complex geometry, such as fractals.

Bianca Marin Moreno

Bianca Marin Moreno graduated from École Polytechnique (X2018). She is currently a third-year PhD student at Inria Grenoble and EDF R&D. Specializing in machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, she develops algorithms related to balancing electricity production and consumption in the context of the energy transition.

*LIX: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

CMAP: a joint research unit CNRS, Inria, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

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