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The French government has selected four Irig joint research units to receive Equipex grants. What does this mean for Irig? Our success rate has never been higher. We really have done exceptionally well. The grants will finance equipment that is crucial to programs in Irig’s key research areas. Investments will include the beamlines at ESRF, […] >>

Since the beginning of the year, Vulkam, a startup founded by a SIMaP scientist in 2017, has secured two space-related R&D contracts with Thales and LYNRED. The company develops ultra-insulating materials that offer remarkable performance. Specifically, Vulkam develops amorphous metal alloys, Vulkalloys®, whose atoms are reordered in such a way as to optimize a given […] >>

Gender-based violence can take many forms, including seemingly-harmless comments that, when they occur in the workplace, are actually damaging expressions of gender discrimination. In February of this year CEA Grenoble initiated an awareness-raising campaign scheduled to run into 2022. In addition to raising overall awareness of gender-based violence, the campaign will also include factual information […] >>

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin, who is in charge of tech transfer and partnerships at IMEP-LaHC, arrived in Finland in mid-May for a six-month stay at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. An expert in integrated photonics, Jean-Emmanuel will work on the 3D hybridization of glass, silicon, and III-V technologies. His other activities will include attending scientific […] >>

Over his career, Vincent Favre-Nicolin, a UGA faculty member who conducts research at ESRF, has developed open-source software applications that are widely used by crystallographers. L’Association française de cristallographie, France’s learned society for crystallographers, will give Vincent its biannual André-Guinier Award on July 2.   The Fox software Vincent developed in the 2000s, which uses powder […] >>