Awards and distinctions

Congratulations to Elaheh MALEKI who was awarded the thesis prize at the AFIS (French Systems Engineering Association) Forum for her outstanding thesis on work on Systems Engineering.

Centrale Nantes confirms its standing in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings in Engineering and Technology which was published on 28 October.

Congratulations to Joseph Al Khoury who received the best presenter award in the Energy Efficiency category at the 16th International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers held in June 2020.

Centrale Nantes maintains its standing in the 401-500 grouping of the world’s top universities in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, which are published today. On industry income Centrale Nantes is ranked 122nd globally.

At the 13th edition of the Fib International PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering, held online from 26 to 28 August, Aliénor Gauthier-Pouyanne - PhD student at Centrale Nantes within the EDYCEM chair - received the prize for the best presentation in the Durability and Life Assessment category. Congratulations to Aliénor!

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.

The LHEEA is pleased to announce that the "NATO Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel Awards Committee" has awarded Ms. Ginevra Rubino with the "Fall 2020 NATO AVT Young Contributor Award" for her overall research work on NATO AVT collaborative research projects.

Centrale Nantes recognised for its commitment to sustainable development in the Times Higher Education 2020 "University Impact Rankings".

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Nicolas MOËS, Professor at Centrale Nantes and the Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (CNRS/Centrale Nantes/University of Nantes) is elected member of the Académie des sciences.

Professor Nicolas Moës, of Centrale Nantes and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, received the 2019 ONERA Award for Mechanical Sciences for Aeronautics and Aerospace.

Centrale Nantes confirms its standing in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings in Engineering and Technology which is published today.

Hera-MI, start-up in the Centrale-Audencia-ense Nantes incubator, has been recognised for its international development. Hera-MI won 1st prize in the International Pitch Challenge on 30 September. The Challenge, organized by the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Pays de la Loire region, was held in Laval and rewarded the international development projects of companies in region.

Centrale Nantes maintains its place in the 401-500 grouping of the world’s top universities in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020, which are published today. On industry income Centrale Nantes is ranked 93rd globally.

Hugues Digonnet, as a former member of the Hi-fi Computational Mechanics team from Mines ParisTech, was awarded the 2019 Atos – Joseph Fourier prize on High-Performance Computing.

Maxime Robira received the 'René Houpert' young researchers award at the 'Rencontres Annuelles Universitaires de Génie Civil', (Association Universitaire du Génie Civil), which was held in Sophia Antipolis from 18 to 21 June 2019.

Publisher Elsevier awarded the authors of the article "Discrete reconfiguration planning for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots", published in the 2016 issue of the scientific journal "Mechanism and Machine Theory", with the Crossley Best Paper Award.

ASME (the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) recognises the peer-review contribution of Stéphane Caro of the RoMaS research group and LS2N Laboratory.

Matthieu Furet, PhD student in the ReV team and Philippe Wenger received the silver best research paper award at the MEDER conference (IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics), which took place in Udine, Italy from 11 to 13 September 2018.