Awards and distinctions 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".

Maxime Spur and Vincent Tourre received the "Best poster award" at the IEEE VIS 2018 conference held at the end of October 2018 in Berlin (Visualization, Information Visualization and Visual Analytics).

The startup I-MC (Innovative Manufacturing & Controls), a CEA and Centrale Nantes spin-off, received an award in two categories at the International Start-up Seminar organized by SCS Cluster in Sophia-Antipolis on 19th December.

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.

The Floatgen project, the first offshore wind turbine in France installed on the Centrale Nantes SEM-REV test site, received the "Etoiles de l’Europe" trophy on 5th December from Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. The aim of this trophy is to highlight the French teams that have chosen Europe to develop their research and open up to innovation.

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).

Two research projects underway in the LHEEA Laboratory - FRAWIND and ePenon – were selected in the first round of the ‘Trophées de l’Innovation Océan’®. The 2 projects are among the 7 winners in the final round.

On 27 June, David Le Touzé, Centrale Nantes Professor and LHEEA researcher, received the Joe Monaghan prize, for the second time running, alongside his Italian co-authors from INSEAN, a research institute of the CNR (National Research Council of Italy).

Pedro Veras Guimarães, Phd student at Centrale Nantes in the LHEEA Laboratory from 2014 to 2018, receives the Admiral Daveluy thesis award, which is awarded for work in the naval and maritime fields.

AKRYVIA has been nominated, among competitors from several continents, for the start-up challenge of the World Materials Forum, which will take place at the end of June in Nancy.

Centrale Nantes Professor Nicolas MOËS was appointed a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France on 1 October 2018, for a period of five years.

Congratulations to the PhD student Tugdual LE NÉEL who, accompanied by Jean-Yves Hascoët, his thesis supervisor, and Pascal Mognol, co-thesis supervisor, received the Dick Aubin Distinguished Paper Award at the Rapid & TCT Conference on 23rd April 23rd in Texas. The jury considered his work on the combination of different materials to create a very promising binder injection mold to address some of the current challenges in traditional sand casting.

On 22 March, Erwan GRELIER, PhD student at Centrale Nantes, was awarded the doctoral student prize of the Mascot-Num research network for the presentation of his work on "Statistical learning in tree-based tensor format".

The “Smartcem®” connected concrete developed as part of the EDYCEM research chair (HERIGE Group), led by Ahmed LOUKILI, Centrale Nantes Professor, was a winner in the 2018 Construction Trophies.

Corentin Hermange, PhD student at LHEEA from 2014 to 2017, won the "Young Scientist Prize" at the Tire Technology Expo 2018, presenting the results of his thesis about a pioneering method for simulating the highly complex aquaplaning phenomenon

Congratulations to Velco, Centrale-Audencia-ensa incubator start-up, award winner in the "Smart Cities" category at the CES 2018 Innovation Awards for its Wink Bar - a connected handlebar. Velco was also the winning finalist of the Showstoppers LaunchIt international pitch competition.