Everyday life at Inria inevitably gives rise to amusing and unforgettable moments – read a selection of personal stories shared by current or former members of the Institute.
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Everyday life at Inria inevitably gives rise to amusing and unforgettable moments – read a selection of personal stories shared by current or former members of the Institute.
GÉRARD L.L.
French computer scientist,
emeritus research director
JEAN-PAUL D.
Head of CRI headquarter and Paris general services
RAYMOND N.
Head of RUNTIME research team in Bordeaux
Each year, the European Research Council awards individual research grants to scientists from around the world in several categories. They are awarded based on demanding criteria for scientific excellence and the originality of projects, with a scientific, technological and societal impact. Inria supports scientists, so follow the lead of these winners: Dare, explore, ERC.
ALESSANDRO R.
winner of the 2020 ERC
Starting Grant, is reinventing
machine learning!
ÉMILIE C.
winner of the 2019 ERC Starting Grant, is on a quest for medical images with better resolution and less noise.
IRENE V.C.
winner of the 2019
ERC - Consolidator
Grant, for her research
on digital simulation.
LAURA G.
winner of the 2018
ERC Synergy Grant
for her project
Extreme-Scale
Mathematically-based
Computational Chemistry
(EMC2) led with Eric Cancès,
Yvon Maday and
Jean-Philippe Piquemal.
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Marie D.J.,
winner of the 2011
ERC - Starting Grant,
works on amyloid
diseases – which
nclude Prion diseases
and Alzheimer’s –
o help biologists
identify therapeutic
solutions.
Christine A.
As the head of the
Camin project team,
develops
electrostimulation
solutions to enable
people who have
paralysis in one or
more limbs to regain
some movement.
Maria N.P.,
is a senior researcher at
the Inria Paris centre.
Her primary research
subject is symmetric
cryptography. She
received an ERC Starting
for the QUASYModo
project in September 2017
and won the Inria-French
Academy of Sciences
Award in 2019.
Serena I.,
She holds a PhD from the Italian
Institute of Technology and
joined the LARSEN team in 2015
after two postdocs in Germany
and France. Her focus is on machine
learning and optimal control,
the aim being to apply these
methods to collaborative robotics.
Nayat S.P.,
is the director of Inria Chile, an international laboratory created in 2012 to foster Franco-Chilean scientific and industrial exchange.
Stéphanie C.
was awarded the L’Oréal - UNESCO
Prize for Women in Science. She
completed her thesis within the
Spirals project eam at the Inria
Lille - Nord Europe research centre.
She works on cloud computing.
A career at an institute like ours provides opportunities to pursue a variety
of career paths, develop new career prospects, take risks and take on exciting challenges.
After working as a front desk agent at several Inria sites, Julien G. became a research team assistant.
After serving as partnership
and innovation project managers,
Margot C. and Jean-François B.
became entrepreneurs when they
founded Diagrams Technologies
with Quentin Grimonprez,
a former member of
the MODAL project team.
After working in the legal department, Nathalie L.
expanded her skill set to
join the communications department as a Web/UX project manager. She now works in the digital transformation
department.
Géraldine G.
a front desk agent at
the Lille- Nord Europe
research centre, is now a logistics manager for the facilities management and technical services.
Armelle D. first served as mission coordinator, then
as manager of the Missions Office, and after that, as
the manager of the Administrative and
Financial Department.
She is now
Secretary General
or the Nancy-Grand Est
centre.
A wide range of large-scale projects have been developed at Inria, bringing
together expertise from a variety of fields. The success of these projects shows
that combining skills through ambitious initiatives can help us advance our
practices, reinvent ourselves and innovate. Let’s be bold together!
The HAL-Inria
project team - 2015
an Inria portal for filing and
disseminating full-text versions of
scientific research on the HAL interdisciplinary open archive platform.
The Inria Helpdes
project team - 2015
an Inria application for users to help improve the quality of support
on digital tools and services
and ensure better synchronisation
between support providers
From Class’Code
to Chiche - 2019
Inria continues its historic efforts for
digital training and awareness and is
getting the scientific community
involved, with two major programs
like Class'Code and
"1 scientist - 1 class: Chiche!”
Out of the 4,500 people who make up the Institute, over a hundred have been with us for over 25 years. Their loyalty, commitment and career development attest to the Institute’s vitality. We applaud their achievements over the course of their career and wish our new arrivals professional fulfilment based on their individual goals.
VÉRONIQUE P.
Research team assistant (AER), then computing resources assistant, then AER, followed by communications assistant and then communications/outreach officer,
has been with Inria since 1991
FABIEN S.
Engineer within
the LAGADIC
research team (Rennes),
came to Inria in 1994
GUY F.
Emeritus research director,
came to Inria in 1975
ROGER P.G.
Engineer within SED (Grenoble), came to Inria in 1995
RÉMY T.
Rocquencourt
site manager, came to Inria in 1979
