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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
- Stefano Palminter, researcher, département d'études cognitives, ENS
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
- Médaille Grand Vermeil: Ana Soto, professor in Biology, Tufts University in Boston, associate professor at the ENS
- Prix Emergence(s) 2018: Daniele Fachinetti, manager of the research team « Mécanismes moléculaires de la dynamique des chromosomes », within UMR 144 (CNRS/Institut Curie).
Prix 2019 du Magazine « La Recherche »
- Guy Perrin the GRAVITY team, researcher at Observatoire de Paris
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
- Prix International dédié aux sciences de la matière, in the field of Mathématiques / Géométrie algébrique: Claire Voisin, professor at Collège de France
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
- 2019 Léonard de Vinci award:Pierre Corvol, Collège de France
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
- Maria J. Esteban, researcher at laboratoire CEREMADE, Paris-Dauphine
EFTF Young Scientist Award 2019
- Jérôme Lodewyck, researcher at SYRTE / Observatoire de Paris
Prix Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn 2018
- Magda Magiera, post-doctoral fellow, laboratoire de Carsten Janke, Institut Curie.
Jens Overgaard Legacy
- Philip Poortmans, director of the cancer radiotherapy department, Institut Curie and professor in radiotherapy, Institut Curie-PSL
AACR American association
- Women in cancer research: Samar Alsafadi, manager of groupe de recherche translationnelle thérapies du mélanome uvéal, Institut Curie.