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Meet our laureates and their projects (in the process of being updated)

StG-2026-PE6

Julien MAIRAL

SOLARIS - Large Scale Learning with Deep Core Machines

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StG-2016-PE3

Andrew FEFFERMAN

UNIGLASS - The Enigmatic Universality of Glass

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StG-2016-PE7

Thibault HONEGGER

CONNEXIO - Physiologically Relevant Microfluidic Neuroengineering

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StG-2016-PE2

Guillaume Pignol

NEDM - The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment: pushing precision to understand matter-antimatter asymmetry

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CoG-2016-PE3

Luca de Medici

 StrongCoPhy4Energy - Strongly Correlated Physics and Materials for Energy Technology

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Ad-2016-PE10

Michel Campillo

F-IMAGE - Seismic Functional Imaging of the Brittle Crust

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AdG-2016-PE9

Jérôme BOUVIER

Star-Planet-Inner Disk Interactions : unveiling the formation and evolution of inner planetary systems

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AdG-2016-PE9

Cecilia Ceccarelli

DOC - Dawn of Organic Chemistry

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AdG-2016-LS3

Laurent BLANCHOIN

AAA – Adaptive Actin Architectures

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POC-2015

Stéphane REDON

SAMSON - Integrating computational nanoscience

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Catherine Cécile Picart

            Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory : LMGP Call to project : Proof of Concept Project name : BIOACTIVECOATINGS – BioActive Coatings in multi-well cell culture plates Amount : 0.149 M€ Description :  Cell culture is … Read More

Gael de Paepe

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : INAC Call to project : Consolidator (PE4) Project name : ULT-MAS-DNP – Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at ultra-fast sample spinning and ultra-low temperature Amount : 1.99 M€ Description : The goal of the project is to develop a new hyperpolarization … Read More

Emmanuel Bossy

Host Institution : UGA Laboratory : Liphy Call to project : Consolidator (PE7) Project name : COHERENCE – Exploiting light coherence in photoacoustic imaging Amount : 2.11 M€ Description :  Photoacoustic imaging is an emerging multi-wave imaging modality that couples light excitation to acoustic detection, … Read More

Christophe Moreau

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call to project : Consolidator (LS1) Project name : NANOZ-ONIC – Bio-inspired electrONIC NOSE interfacing olfactory electrical biosensors and carbon NANOtubes Amount : 1.92 M€ Description :  The goal of this project is to develop an innovative biosensor for the … Read More

Jérôme Chappellaz

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : LGGE (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Proof of Concept (PoC) Project name : OCEAN-IDs – Ocean in-situ Isotope and Dissolved gas sensing Amount : 0,149 M€ Description :

Carlos Canuda de Witt

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : GIPSA-Lab Call for projects : Advanced (PE7) Project name: Scale-FreeBack – Scale-Free Control for Complex Physical Network Systems Amount: 2,87 M€ Description :

Florence Bertails-Descoubes

            Host institution: INRIA Laboratory: INRIA Grenoble / LJK Call for projects: Starting (PE6) Project Name: GEM – From Geometry to Motion: Inverse Modeling of Complex Mechanical Structures Amount: €1.49m Description : With the considerable … Read More

Gaelle Offranc-Piret

Host institution: INSERM Laboratory: CLINATEC Call for Projects:  Starting (PE8) Project name: BRAIN MICRO SNOOPER – A mimetic implant for low disturbance, stable stimulation and recording of neural units inside the brain Amount: €1,499,850 Description :  Developing brain implants is … Read More

Ioan Mihai Miron

Host institution: CNRS Laboratory: Spintec Call for Projects: Starting (PE3) Project name: SMART DESIGN – Spin-orbit mechanism in adaptive magnetization-inversion techniques, for the design of magnetic memories Amount: €1,476M Description :  Compared to existing Random Access Memories, the Magnetic RAM … Read More

Alphée Michelot

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : BIG Call to project : Starting (LS3) Project name : SegregActin – Building Distinct Actin Filament Networks in a Common Cytoplasm Amount : 1,500 M€ Description :  The ability of cells to use the actin cytoskeleton for a diversity … Read More

Benjamin Sacépé

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : NEEL Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du projet : QUEST – QUantum Hall Edge State Tunnelling spectroscopy Montant : 1 761 412 € Description :  The quantum nature of an electronic fluid is ubiquitous in many solid-state systems … Read More

Hugues Nury

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : IBS Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : PentaBrain – STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF MAMMALIAN CYS-LOOP RECEPTORS Montant : 1,500 M€ Description :  In the brain, Cys-loop receptors mediate fast neurotransmission. They function as allosteric signal … Read More

Irina Gutsche

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call of project : Consolidator (LS1) Project name : Chap4Resp – Catching in action a novel bacterial chaperone for respiratory complexes Amount : 1 999 956 € Description :  Cellular respiration provides energy to power essential processes of … Read More

Olivier Renaudet

Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : DCM Call to project : Consolidator (PE5) Project name : LEGO – Multimodal glycoconjugates: a molecular Lego approach for antitumoral immunotherapy Amount : 2 M€ Description :  Despite significant progress in cancer therapy, current treatments are still controversial due to … Read More

Eddy Collin

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : NEEL Appel à projet : Consolidator (PE3) Nom du Projet : ULT-NEMS – Ultra-Cold Nano-Mechanics: from Classical to Quantum Complexity Montant : 1.99 M€ Description :  Nano-electro-mechanical devices (NEMS) are extremely small objects that can be actuated and detected … Read More

Nicolas Mordant

Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: LEGI Call for projects: Consolidator (PE3) Project Name: WATU – Wave turbulence: beyond weak turbulence Amount: €1,991,611 Description : Wave turbulence and fluid turbulence belong to the same class of turbulent states consisting of a large … Read More

Bernard Dieny

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : Spintec Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : MAGICAL – CMOS/magnetoelectronic Integrated Circuits wil Multifunctional Capabilities Montant : 2,5 M€ Description :  Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic memories (STT-MRAM) are receiving a growing R&D effort within the … Read More

Jean-Pierre Demailly

Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : Institut Fourier Call of project : Advanced (PE1) Project name : ALKAGE – Algebraic and Kähler geometry Amount : 1 809 345 M€ Description :  The purpose of this project is to study basic questions in algebraic and Kähler … Read More

StG-2014-LS4

Christophe GUILLUY

MechanoFate - From mechanical stress to vascular fate

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Xavier Bonfils

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : OSUG-iPAG (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE9) Nom du Projet : EXTRA – Exoplanets in Transit and their Atmosphere Montant : 2 M€ Description :  Since the discoveries of giant planets outside our Solar System, over 800 extra-solar … Read More

Patrice Horaud

Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire :  Perception (INRIA Grenoble/UGA-LJK) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : VHIA – Vision and Hearing in Action Montant : 2,5 M€ Description :  The objective of VHIA is to elaborate a holistic computational paradigm of perception and … Read More

AdG-2013-SH4

Jean-Luc SCHWARTZ

SPEECH UNIT(E)S - The multisensory-motor unity of speech

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Philippe Marmottant

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Liphy (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Consolidator (PE8) Project name : BUBBLEBOOST – Microfluidic bubbles for novel applications: acoustic laser and ultrasonically controlled swimming microrobots Amount : 1,86 M€ Description :  Microfluidic techniques developed since the … Read More

Sébastien Hentz

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : Léti Call for projects : Consolidator (PE7) Project name : ENLIGHTENED – Nanophotonic Nanomechanical Mass Spectrometry for Biology and Health Amount : 2 M€ Description :  Mass Spectrometry has become a routine analytical tool in modern biological … Read More

Olivier David

Host Institution : INSERM Laboratory : GIN (INSERM/CEA/CHU/UJF) Call for project: Consolidator (LS5) Project Name : F-TRACT – Functional Brain Tractography Amount : 2 M€ Description :  Single-pulse direct electrical stimulation of cortical regions in patients suffering from focal drug-resistant epilepsy who are explored … Read More

Mohamed-Ali Hakimi

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Jean Roget Call for projects : Consolidator (LS6) Name of the project : HOSTINGTOXO – Toxoplasma gondii secretes an armada of effector proteins to co-opt its host cell transcriptome and microRNome to promote sustained parasitism Amount … Read More

Jérôme Boisbouvier

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS Call for projects : Proof of Concept (PoC) Name of the project : NMR-Bio – Commercialization and Dissemination of Innovative Isotopic Labelling Solutions and Services for  the NMR studies of Important Protein Targets … Read More

Stephen Cusack

Host Institution : EMBL Laboratory : EMBL-Grenoble-UVHCI (CNRS/EMBL/UJF) Call for Projects : Advanced (LS1) Project name : V-RNA – Two facets of viral RNA: mechanistic studies of transcription and replication by influenza-like viral polymerases and detection by the innate immune system Amount … Read More

Marek Potemski

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : LNCMI-Grenoble (CNRS/UJF) Call for Projects : Advanced (PE3) Name of the project : MOMB – Magneto-optics of layered materials: exploring many-body physics in electronic systems with unconventional bands Amount : 1,93 M€ Description :  The project will … Read More

Olivier Arcizet

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Néel Call for Projects : Starting (PE2) Name of the project : HQ-NOM – Hybrid Quantum Nano-Optomechanics Amount : 1,79 M€ Description :  The chief endeavor of the project is to develop, investigate and exploit … Read More

Wiecke Guichard

Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : FREQUJOC – Frequency-to-current conversion with coherent Josephson crystals Montant : 1,47 M€ Description :  This project aims at exploring the coherence of Josephson crystals … Read More

Tristan Meunier

  Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : QSPINMOTION – Quantum coherence and manipulation of a single flying electron spin Montant : 1,5 M€ Description :  In quantum nanoelectronics, one of … Read More

Jacek Kasprzak

  Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : PICSEN – Propagative and Internal Coherence in Semiconductor Nanostructures Montant : 1,5 M€ Description :  This project concerns the field of coherent, nonlinear, … Read More

Vincent Artero

  Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iRTSV-LCBM (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE5) Nom du Projet : PHOTOCATH2ODE – Gathering organic and hybrid photovoltaics with artificial photosynthesis for Photo-Electro-Chemical production of hydrogen. Montant : 1,5 M€ Description :  The future of energy supply … Read More

David Cooper

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : Léti Appel à projet : Starting (PE7) Nom du Projet : HOLOVIEW – Single active dopant detection in semiconductor nanowires using electron holography Montant : 1,5 M€ Description :  The end of “happy scaling” in the semiconductor industry … Read More

Paul Schanda

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : IBS (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet :PROTDYN2FUNCTION – Functional protein dynamics studied by solution- and solid-state NMR spectroscopy Montant : 1,49 M€ Description :  Proteins are highly flexible objects that perform their … Read More

Manuel Théry

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iRTSV-LPCV (CEA/CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (LS3) Nom du Projet : SPICY – Spatial Integration in Cell Cytoskeleton Montant : 1,43 M€ Description :  The functional coherence in multicellular arrangements depends on each cells ability to … Read More

Bernard Dieny

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : SPINTEC (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Call for Projects : Proof of concept (PoC) Name of the project : HYMAGINE Amount : 0,15 M€ Description :  This PoC project is closely coupled to the ERC Advanced Grant HYMAGINE. The purpose of … Read More

Stéphane Redon

Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Starting (PE6) Nom du Projet : ADAPT- Theory and Algorithms for Adaptive Particle Simulation Montant : 1,48 M€ Description :  During the twentieth century, the development of macroscopic engineering has been largely … Read More

David Pascal Monniaux

Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Verimag (CNRS/G INP/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE6) Nom du Projet : STATOR- STATic analysis with ORiginal methods Montant : 1,47 M€ Description :  Since the beginning of computing, software has had bugs. If a word processor … Read More

Cordelia Schmid

Host Institution : INRIA Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : ALLEGRO – Active large-scale learning for visual recognition  Montant : 2,49 M€ Description :  A massive and ever growing amount of digital image and video content … Read More

Christian Jutten

Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : UJF-Gipsa Lab (CNRS/G INP/UJF/Univ Stendhal) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : CHESS – Challenges in Extraction and Separation of Sources  Montant : 2,5 M€ Description :  Separation/extraction of sources are wide concepts in information sciences, since … Read More

Pierre Comon

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Gipsa Lab (CNRS/G INP/UJF/Univ. Stendhal) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE7) Nom du Projet : DECODA – Tensor Decomposition for Data Analysis with Applications to Health and Environment  Montant : 1,5 M€ Description :  Multi-Way factor Analysis (MWA) is … Read More

Gérard Besson

Host Institution : UJF Laboratoire : Institut Fourier (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE1) Nom du Projet : GETOM – Geometry and Topology of Open Manifolds  Montant : 1 M€ Description :  The purpose of this project is to study the interactions between Riemannian … Read More

Catherine Cécile Picart

Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory: LMGP (CNRS/G INP) Call for projects : Proof of concept Name of the project : OSCODI Amount : 0.15 M€ Description :  Successful bone regeneration depends on the establishment of a good contact between … Read More

Rémy Slama

Host Institution : INSERM Laboratory : IAB Call for projects : Starting (LS7) Project name : E-DOHaD – Environmentally-induced Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Amount : 1,5 M€ Description : 

Jérôme Chappellaz

Host institution: CNRS Laboratory: LGGE (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE10) Project Name: ICE&LASERS – Innovative Concepts for Extracting Climate and Atmospheric Composition Records from Polar Ice Cores Using Novel LASER Sensors Amount: €2.99 million Description : ICE&LASERS propose to … Read More

Jean-Louis Barrat

Host Institution : UJF Laboratory : Liphy (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Advanced (PE3) Name of the Project : GLASSDEF – Driven Glasses: from statistical physics to materials properties  Amount : 1,76 M€ Description :  Amorphous systems form a large fraction of the solid materials … Read More

Wilfried Thuiller

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : LECA (CNRS/UJF/Univ. Savoie) Appel à projet : Starting (LS8) Nom du Projet : TEEMBIO-Toward Eco-Evolutionary Models for BIODiversity Scenarios  Montant : 1,48 M€ Description :  Given the contemporary biodiversity crisis, effective conservation strategies that offset the threats to … Read More

Eric Hervé Jaligot

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratoire : Institut Fourier (CNRS/UJF) Appel à projet : Starting (PE1) Nom du Projet : GTMT – Group Theory and Model Theory  Montant : 0,36 M€ Description :  The project is located between logic and mathematics, more precisely between model theory … Read More

Silvano de Franceschi

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : HYBRIDNANO – Engineering electronic quantum coherence and correlations in hybrid nanostructures. Montant : 1,78 M€ Description :  Nanoelectronic devices can provide versatile and relatively simple systems to study complex quantum … Read More

Marie-Paule Renée Cani

Host Institution : Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Technology) Laboratoire : LJK (CNRS/G INP/UJF/UPMF/INRIA) Appel à projet : Advanced (PE6) Nom du Projet : EXPRESSIVE Montant : 2,5 M€ Description :  Despite our great expressive skills, we humans lack an easy way of communicating the … Read More

Christiane Hélène Berger-Schaffitzel

Host Institution : EMBL Laboratoire : EMBL-Grenoble Outstation Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : COMPLEXNMD- Eukaryotic mRNA Quality Control Montant : 1,18 M€ Description :  Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is an essential mechanism controlling translation in the eukaryotic cell. NMD ascertains accurate … Read More

Eva Maria Monroy Fernandez

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE7) Nom du Projet : TERAGAN – GaN Quantum Devices for T-Ray Sources Montant : 1,63 M€ Description :  T-rays, often called terahertz radiation or sub-millimeter waves, are loosely defined as the wavelengths … Read More

Maxime Hofheinz

Host Institution : CEA Laboratoire : iNAC Appel à projet : Starting (PE3) Nom du Projet : WIQOJO – Wideband Quantum Optics with Josephson Junctions Montant : 1,64 M€ Description :  Circuit quantum optics (quantum optics with microwave photons in electronic circuits) has allowed to … Read More

Catherine Cécile Picart

Host Institution : Grenoble Institute of Technology Laboratory : LMGP (CNRS, G INP) Call to Project : Starting (PE5) Name of the Project : BIOMIM – Biomimetic films and membranes as advanced materials for studies on cellular processes. Amount : 1,5 M€ Description :  … Read More

Xavier Waintal

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : iNAC Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the projects : MESOQMC – Quantum Monte-Carlo in mesoscopic devices Montant : 1,22 M€ Description :  Understanding electronic correlations remains one of the biggest challenges of theoretical condensed matter … Read More

Ramesh Pillai

  Host Institution : EMBL Laboratoire : EMBL-Grenoble Outstation Appel à projet : Starting (LS1) Nom du Projet : PISILENCE – Small RNA-guided complex machinery for epigenetic silencing Montant : 0,9 M€ Description :  Transposons are parasitic DNA elements that when activated can insert … Read More

Dai Aoki

Host Institution : CEA Laboratory : iNAC Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the Project : NEWHEAVYFERMION – Novel materials and extreme conditions to open new frontiers in heavy fermion physics. Amount : 1,5 M€ Description :  The objective of this project is … Read More

Maxime Richard

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : Institut Néel (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects : Starting (PE3) Name of the project : Handy-Q-Quantum Degeneracy at Hand Amount : 1,49 M€ Description :  Microcavity polaritons are half-light, half-matter composite bosons, which are formed in monolithic semiconductor … Read More

Jérôme Boisbouvier

Host Institution : CNRS Laboratory : IBS (CEA/CNRS/UJF) Call for project : Starting (LS1) Name of the project : SEENANOLIFEINACTION Amoubt : 1,4 M€ Description :  Real-Time Studies of Biological NanoMachines in Action by NMR.  

Thomas Ernst

Host institution: CEA Laboratory: Leti Call for projects: Starting (PE7) Project Name: DELPHINS – DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-PHYSICAL INTEGRATED NANOSYSTEMS Amount: €1.72 million Description : The innovation of DELPHINS application will consist in building a generic multi-sensor design platform … Read More

Bernard Dieny

Host institution: CEA Laboratory: SPINTEC (CNRS/CEA/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE7) Project name: HYMAGINE – CMOS/magnetic hybrid components and systems for energy efficient, non-volatile and reprogrammable embedded electronics. Amount: €2.5 million Description : Spin electronics merges magnetism and electronics (Nobel … Read More

Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

Host Institution: CNRS Laboratory: Néel Institute (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Advanced (PE3) Project Name: MOLNANOSPIN – Molecular spintronics using single-molecule magnets Amount: €2.1 million Description : A revolution in electronics is in view, with the contemporary evolution of two novel … Read More

Michel Campillo

Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: iSERRE (UJF/CNRS) Call for projects: Advanced (PE10) Project Name: WHISPER – Towards Continuous Monitoring of the Ever-Evolving Earth Amount: €1.7m Description : This project is focused on the use of the seismic ambient noise to monitor … Read More

Guillaume Dubus

Host Institution: UJF Laboratory: OSUG-iPAG (CNRS/UJF) Call for projects: Starting (PE7) Project Name: GAMMARAYBINARIES – Exploring the gamma-ray sky: binaries, microquasars and their impact on understanding particle acceleration, relativistic winds and accretion/ejection phenomena in cosmic sources Amount: €0.79 million Duration: … Read More

André Verdel

Host institution: INSERM Laboratory: IAB (INSERM/UJF/CNRS/CHU) Call for projects: Starting (LS2) Project Name: RNAIEPIMOD – RNA and epigenetics: RNAi-induced chromatin modifications Amount: € 0.9 M Description : RNA interference (RNAi) mediates chromatin changes in fungi, plants, Drosophila, and spawns. In … Read More

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