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École Polytechnique, Inria, CNRS and Bañulsdesign have joined forces to launch the MATritime joint laboratory, with funding from the French National Research Agency. The aim is to develop computational and statistical tools that will provide the sea shipping industry with the tools for more sustain…

Maxime Grangereau is an alumnus of the X2012 Class at École Polytechnique and is currently pursuing his PhD in collaboration with EDF and the Center for Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique. He was officially named one of the recipients of the 2020 Siebel Scholars award at a ceremony held on …

Among the finalists for the McCall MacBain scholarship, Elsa Tanré, who studies in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program (X20), represented École Polytechnique with distinction and has been awarded a scholarship of 20,000 Canadian dollars.

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Pierre Berest, former researcher at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory, which he headed from 1990 to 2001, and professor at the Department of Mechanics, member of the High College of the École Polytechnique, has left us. Andrei Constantinescu, CNRS research director and director of the LMS honors him.

The BepiColombo probe flew over the planet Mercury and began measuring the characteristics of its magnetosphere, thanks in part to the MSA ion mass spectrometer to which the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP) contributed.

How does a bacterial line behave in the face of a cocktail of antibiotics, cancer cells in the face of chemotherapy, or the Guyanese forest in the face of climate change? At the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), the MERGE team works at the interface between biology and mathematics. It contribu…

Metabolomics is defined as the study of all the constituent and specialized metabolites present in an organism, making it possible to define its state and evolution. This science is based on two cutting-edge technologies in analytical chemistry: mass spectrometry (MS) and NMR. Because of its specif…

Meeting with Alexandre Boulanger, CEO of Metyos. The startup, both medtech and deeptech, is developing a personal biosensor to address the problem of the great pandemic of overweight and obesity in the world.  

Paris, Abu Dhabi – 19 May 2025 –– On the occasion of the Choose France Summit held in Versailles, Bpifrance, the French national investment bank, and MGX, the UAE investment fund focused on artificial intelligence and advanced technology, together with generative AI leader Mistral AI, and world lea…

The Board of the Friends of École Polytechnique, sister organization of École Polytechnique Foundation in the United States, has unanimously appointed Michel Combes (Class X1981) Chairman of the Friends of École Polytechnique (FEP). He succeeds Éric Setton (Class X1998) who held this position since…

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.

Mistral AI, the French Artificial Intelligence nugget, co-founded in February by two X2011s, Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample, and a graduate of École Normale Supérieure, Timothée Lacroix, has raised almost 500 million euros since itslauch, eight months ago, fueled by the craze surrounding AI sin…

Simulation of aerosol's propagation in an hospital room.The Covid-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on hospitals in France and around the world. At the beginning of the first containment, in March 2020, a few dozen students from Ecole Polytechnique volunteered in the hospitals of the A…

Credit : Gregory NoctonA new kind of organometallic lanthanide molecule has demonstrated remarkable magnetic properties: the more it is isolated, the more it tends to behave like a magnet, which is the opposite of the classical magnetic properties. This research was conducted by a collaboration of …