What will cars be like in the future? This is the focus of the André Citroën chair, created in 2011, renewed in 2016 and extended on Tuesday 10 September 2019.

Dipankar Dar Sarma, J. N. Tata Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, is one of the professors invited thanks to the Gaspard Monge Program.

Thanks to an ERC Consolidator Grant, Razvan Gurau, CNRS research scientist at the Center of Theoretical Physics (CPHT), will be able to further his work on random tensors and field theory, an area of theoretical physics that may make it possible to solve equations that are challenging scientists today.

In metallurgy or optics, the quality and properties of materials are a direct function of the arrangement of the crystals of atoms composing them.

CNRS researcher at École polytechnique’s Center of Theoretical Physics, Andrea Puhm was awarded an ERC Starting Grant that will allow her to put together a research team on “Information Encoding in Quantum Gravity and the Black Hole Information Paradox.”

École Polytechnique remains second best small university worldwide according to the World's best small universities 2019 ranking published by Times Higher Education (THE).

École polytechnique’s Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences (LOB) participated in a study coordinated by the Institute of Biology Paris-Seine on the discovery of a cellular mechanism essential to embryonic development that has just been published in Nature.

École Polytechnique took a big step forward in the CWUR ranking, placing itself at the 32nd place at the head of the 95 French institutions of the ranking.