Awards and distinctions

Centrale Nantes enters the top 200 in Engineering and the top 400 in Physical Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2023, out today.

Centrale Nantes is positioned in the top 600 in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings out on 12 October. At the national level, the school is the 5th ranked engineering school.

Congratulations to Marinelle El Khoury, who recently completed her PhD at Centrale Nantes, on her best paper award in the category ''Sustainability and Materials / Sustainable Development and Life Cycle Assessment'' at the 14th fib PhD Symposium.

Congratulations to Ilhame Harbouz, Centrale Nantes engineer and PhD student in the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (GeM).

Centrale Nantes has once again made its mark in the U-Multirank ranking. In the 2022 edition, the school is one of three French institutions with the highest number of overall top scores.

The 2022 edition of the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects is now out. Centrale Nantes stands out in Mechanical Engineering, climbing to the top 151-200, and entering the Management ranking in the top 301-400.

Stanford University has recently published an updated list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists in different disciplines - the World's Top 2% Scientists. 16 researchers from Centrale Nantes are included in the updated list - up from 9 last year.

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.