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Charles Roques-Carmes is a Polytechnique engineer and is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Electronics Research Laboratory, where he received his Ph.D. in 2022 after completing a Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering. He is one of…

Charlotte Dieutre is appointed Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment (CSRE) Director at École Polytechnique, effective May 5, 2025. Reporting to the Executive Director, she will lead École Polytechnique's CSRE strategy, which includes the Sustainable Development Department of the Institut…

Chemical ecology aims to study the roles of chemical mediators in the interaction between organisms. Our interests, in collaboration with ecologists and/or natural product specialists, focus on the notion of holobiont (association of a macro-organism with its micro-organisms) and on the chemical me…

Among the interfaces developed in organic chemistry, the one with biology is one of the most prolific, due to the many possible interactions of small organic molecules with living organisms, and the resulting applications. The methods and targeted synthesis of complex molecules make it possible to …

As part of a joint research project with Christophe Josserand, Deputy Director of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX) and lecturer at the École Polytechnique and the CNRS, École Polytechnique welcomed a visit from Sergio Rica, a researcher from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). …

Crédit photo : Bengt Nyman - (CC BY 2.0)Invented in 1985 by Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, the Chirped Pulse Amplification method (CPA) paved the way for ultra-intense lasers and revolutionized their uses, ranging from eye surgery to the particles physics.Today, thousands of researchers arou…

Sixteen École Polytechnique’s alumni and students appear in the 2023 edition of the French think tank Institut Choiseul ranking of business leaders under 40. Seven of them are in the Top 100.

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Two students (X2021) completed the civil training part of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program in Yamoussoukro, at the high school Mamie Adjoua, and at Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny. To both, the training represented an opportunity to engage as citizens and to discover the …

Portrait ©Fondation L’OréalClaire Dessalles (X2013), a young researcher in the "Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering" Chair, is the winner of the "For Women in Science" prize awarded annually by the L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO. This prize aims to develop the visi…

On March 26, 2025, Claire Fauvarque Nuytten was awarded the 2024 Pierre Faurre prize by Jean-Paul Cottet (class X 1974), Executive Director of École Polytechnique Foundation. A graduate of École Polytechnique (class X 2009), she is currently in charge of new elastomer process developments in the Mi…

Claire Leclech, a CNRS Research Fellow at École Polytechnique and member of the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), and Annalaura Stingo, a Monge Professor at École Polytechnique and member of the Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center (CMLS), were awarded Launching Packages on June 2, 2025. Both will …

Claude Sabbah, a mathematician at Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center (CMLS*), has just been awarded two Frontiers of Science prizes for two of his scientific articles.

Physicist and CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Claude Weisbuch has been honored by the French Academy of Sciences.

Claudine Hermann was the first woman to be appointed as a professor at l’X, a renowned physicist and a champion of the promotion of women in the scientific world. She died on July 17th in her 76th year.Born on December 19, 1945 in Paris, Claudine Hermann was a former student of the École norm…