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French and international scientific and academic awards for PSL researchers

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Gruber 2019 Cosmology Prize, CNRS silver and bronze medals, Grand Prix de philosophie de l'Académie Française... many PSL scientists have had their work rewarded since 1 January 2019. The following is a list of the top winners from all disciplines.

Prizes and awards in France

Elections and appointments

  • Junior member at the Institut universitaire de France: Romain Jolivet, associate professor at the Geosciences department (ENS) & Valeriano Parravicini, director of studies at EPHE

Awards and medals

Académie française

  • Grand Prix de Philosophie 2019: Jacques Bouveresse, professor emeritus at Collège de France, tenured professor in the « Philosophie du langage et de la connaissance » (1995-2010)

Académie des inscriptions des belles-lettres

  • 2019 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim award in the history of religions : Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi for the book La preuve de Dieu. La mystique shi’ite à travers l’œuvre de Kulaynî. IXe-Xe s. (director of studies, department of religion sciences, EPHE)

CNRS

  • Gold medal: Thomas Ebbesen, 2017-2018 chair « Innovation technologique Liliane Bettencourt » at Collège de France
  • Silver medal: Johanna Siméant-Germanos, teacher in political sciences at the département de sciences sociales à l'ENS
  • Silver medal: Claire Mathieu, research director at the CNRS, invited professor, chaire Collège de France-INRIA 2017-2018
  • Bronze medal: Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, researcher at CNRS, director of study in law, director of the "Politiques publiques" curriculum in the ENS
  • Bronze medal: Marie Manceau, researcher in biology, who in the CIRB manages the team "Formation and Evolution of Color Patterns" at Collège de France
  • Bronze medal: Teresa Lopez-Leon, researcher at CNRS, Laboratoire Gulliver, ESPCI
  • Bronze medal: Pierre-Yves Plaçais, researcher at CNRS, associate director with Thomas Préat of the GDSL team (Gènes et Dynamique des Systèmes de Mémoire), laboratoire de plasticité du cerveau, ESPCI
  • Bronze medal: Alexandre Le Tiec, researcher at CNRS in the laboratoire de l'Univers et de ses Théories (LUTH), Observatoire de Paris
  • Bronze medal: Benjamin Basso, researcher at CNRS, laboratoire de physique théorique, ENS
  • Crystal collective award: Nicolas Birlirakis, research engineer, Laboratoire des BioMolécules (UMR 7203 ENS/CNRS/SU)

Fondation Schlumberger pour l'Education et la Recherche

Fondation Eugène Bloch gérée par la fondation de France

  • 2018 Prix des trois physiciens: Edith Falgarone, emeritus researcher at CNRS, researcher in the laboratoire de radioastronomie du département de Physique de l'ENS

Prix du Sénat du livre d’Histoire

Ville de Paris

Prix 2019 du Magazine « La Recherche »

International prizes and awards

Elections and appointments

  • Bord of trustees, Eurec, Association européenne des centres de recherche sur les énergies renouvelables: Andrea Michiorri, researcher at 2019 MINES ParisTech
  • 2019 Fellow of division Cellulose and Renewable Materials, American Chemical Society: Patrick Navard, researcher at Centre de mise en forme des matériaux, MINES ParisTech
  • Geneviève Almouzni, from Institut Curie, became a member of the Conseil scientifique du Conseil européen de la recherche (ERC)
  • Ludger Johannes, from Institut Curie, became a member of Académie allemande des sciences Leopoldina

Prizes and awards

2019 Gruber Cosmology prize

  • Nicholas Kaiser, professor at département de physique de l’ENS and Joseph Silk, IAP

UNESCO et L’Oréal pour les Femmes et la science

Société météorologique allemande (DMG)

  • Médaille Albert Defant: Sabrina Speich, professor of oceanography and climate science at the ENS

2019 Günther Laukien award

  • Geoffrey Bodenhausen, professor, département de Chimie de l'ENS and Christian Griesinger, Max Planck Institute

European Academy of Sciences

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

  • 2018 Turing prize: Yann LeCun, holder of the chair « Informatique et sciences numériques », Collège de France, with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton

2019 Dan David award

  • Sanjay Subrahmanyam, holder of the international chair « Histoire globale de la première modernité », Collège de France, with Kenneth Pomeranz

Honorary Degree from Heriot-Watt University

EFTF Young Scientist Award 2019

Prix Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn 2018

Jens Overgaard Legacy

  • Philip Poortmans, director of the cancer radiotherapy department, Institut Curie and professor in radiotherapy, Institut Curie-PSL

AACR American association