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With more than 100 nationalities on campus, 40% international students, and 40% international professors and researchers, École Polytechnique is highly internationalized. This strong international framework is a result of the School’s policies aimed at attracting and training talents from around th…

The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of this mystery that Alexis Gautreau, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory of Structural Biology of the Cell (BIOC)* and professor at the École pol…

Credits: Antoine Desjardins, artist, professor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - EnsAD and researcher at EnsadlabThe first edition of "Useful Fictions", the summer school of the arts & sciences Chair, allowed 18 international students, supervised by some fifteen artists, scientists a…

The extinction of fish populations due to overexploitation is a current problem that stems in particular from the lack of models capable of simulating the dynamics of fishing boats. This is what José Moran and Antoine Fosset, young researchers at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), Michael Benz…

Some fluorescent molecules used to produce microscopic images of biological processes cause the cells into which they are introduced to stiffen. This phenomenon has just been demonstrated and quantified by a collaboration involving the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*). He is featured on the cover…

Studying Retroactions between society and biodiversity, analysing the evolution of small bacteria population and a phylogenetic approah of cancer: these are the new themes handled by the Chair « Modélisation mathématique et biodiversité ». thanks to its international influence at the in…

In early 2024, Charles Baroud, professor and researcher at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), was awarded an ERC Advanced Grants for his Melcart project. Acronym for Mechanical Characterization and Stimulation of Microtissues, this research project aims to develop technologies and knowledge ar…

At the 2026 ‘AI for Impact’ Spring School, École Polytechnique’s ‘Data Science & Industrial Processes’ Chair is reaffirming its role as a bridge between cutting-edge research and the business world. By bringing together students, scientists and businesses from around the world in Morocco, the event…

Wolfram SchlenkerProfessor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and The Earth InstituteCo-director, Center for Environmental Economics and Policy (ceep.columbia.edu)Co-director, Energy & Environment Concentration at SIPAYou have studied the effect of weather and climate on agricul…

 Mariam Ezzedine (on the right) and Fatme Jardali (on the left), co-founders of HiperssysHow did the idea of Hiperssys come about?This entrepreneurial project started while I was working on my doctoral thesis in the Laboratoire of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM* - NanoMa…