Awards and distinctions

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.

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.

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.

Yann Briheche, a PhD graduate from Centrale Nantes and LS2N, received the Thales PhD Prize 2018 on 29th November for his thesis on "Optimization of search patterns for fixed-panel tridimensional scanning radars".

During the BTP # LAB hackathon held in Nancy on 6th and 7th December, a team featuring a Centrale Nantes student won the Jury's special prize with their Op'Them project.

Centrale Nantes makes its entrance today into the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Engineering & Technology Ranking – ranked 4th amongst the best French universities and in the 176-200 worldwide grouping for this subject.

Marie Robert has been awarded the Académie de Marine thesis prize. She conducted her thesis on "Numerical modelling of the hydro-elastic behavior of vessels in nonlinear waves" from 2014 to 2017 at Centrale Nantes, in the LHEEA (Laboratory of Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment).

Centrale Nantes has joined the 401-500 grouping of the world’s top universities in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, which are published today.

The research collaboration between EDYCEM BPE and Centrale Nantes - within the framework of the "Innovative Concrete for New Applications" Industrial Chair - has led to an award for EDYCEM's SMARTCEM®, connected concrete in the 'Trophées de la Construction 2018' (Construction Awards).