Awards and distinctions

Congratulations to Soukaina Riad, PhD student at the GeM and winner of the CSMA 2022 Poster Award for her paper in the category "Lifetime of structures" at the 15th National Conference on Structural Computations - CSMA 2022.

Centrale Nantes features in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for the fourth consecutive year and is ranked in 8th place among the French institutions in the ranking.

Centrale Nantes Professor Nicolas Moës, of the Research Institute for Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) and elected member of the Académie des sciences, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liège on 19 March.

Congratulations to Audrey Somera, 3rd year PhD student at the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM), for her Mécamat 2022 "Emilie du Châtelet" poster award.

Researchers from the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) successfully established the basic technology for a wireless, battery-free acoustic biosensor. The result of their work was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Second International Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS 2021), organised in September 2021 by the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento (Italy).

On 26 November 2021, Safran group CEO Olivier Andriès presented Léa Guipouy and Mathieu Robazza with 5th prize in the USAIRE Student Awards for their vision on the future of aviation.

Rémi Parrot, a PhD student in the Control and Real-Time Teams at the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes and of the Renault-Centrale Nantes chair received the Best Young Researcher Paper Award at the MSR 2021 conference.

Tony Ribeiro, a post-doctoral student in the LS2N Formal Methods for Bioinformatics research group - in the framework of a Franco-Japanese collaborative project co-financed by the National Institute of Informatics (NII, in Tokyo) and the RFI Atlanstic 2020 -, received the "best paper award" at the 30th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP)

Congratulations to Rebecca Fribourg who received the Séphora Berrebi Women in Advanced Mathematics & Computer Science scholarship at a ceremony held on 4 October.

Nicolas MOËS, Professor at Centrale Nantes and the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CNRS/Centrale Nantes/University of Nantes) is a newly elected member of the Académie des sciences. Reception ceremony for elected members on Tuesday 12 October.

Centrale Nantes confirms its standing in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings in Engineering and Technology, which was published on 6 October 2021.

Sara Al Haj Sleiman, a PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM) at Centrale Nantes, won the Ecole Française du Béton's Corporate Social Responsibility prize, for her research results presented at the 13th Fib PhD symposium held in Paris on 22 July 2021.

Centrale Nantes maintains its place in the top 500 institutions for Physical Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022, published today.

Centrale Nantes is positioned in the top 600 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings out on 2 September. At the national level, the school is ranked 18th.

Congratulations to Antonella, Aurélien, Benjamin, Chloé, Etienne and Safae who impressed the SoliTudiant challenge jury during the final on 24 June! They received the "Coup de Coeur de la Transition Ecologique" prize for their P2E project "Feasibility study of an eco-solidarity activity" with a €5,000 prize for the ESAT de la Cholière.

Centrale Nantes is one of the world's best universities aged 50 or younger, according to the criteria of the Times Higher Education Young Universities Rankings.

Arbia Ben Khodja, a Michelin CIFRE PHD student in the LHEEA Laboratory, received the Libersky Prize for the best work by a student at the 15th International SPHERIC Workshop, which was held virtually from 8 to 11 June 2021 from New York. 24 PhD students were in the running. Arbia's paper was on the "Validation of coupled SPH-FE hydroplaning simulations using PIV measurements".

Congratulations to Filippo Masi, joint winner of the Centrale Innovation PhD Award 2021.

Congratulations to Yicha Zhang, former PhD student at LS2N and post-doc on a European project, who has just been awarded the CIRP Taylor Medal.

Congratulations to Dr Filippo Masi on his award at EMMC18 for his presentation on “Multiscale modeling of inelastic microstructured materials with Thermodynamics based Artificial Neural Networks (TANN)”.