News : Innovation & Society

Minalogic invites its members to twice-yearly project brainstorming sessions where twenty or so ideas for potential projects are presented. The first session of 2015, scheduled for January 22, will be larger in scope. Representatives of other clusters in the Rhône-Alpes region will also be invited to attend and present either an existing business or R&D […] >>

Phelma graduate Olivier Llido (class of 2012) is indulging his passion for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands on Île Amsterdam, where he arrived in early November. The 58 sq. km island in the Indian Ocean is one of the most isolated places on earth, inhabited only by the twenty or so scientific researchers Llido […] >>

Artist and engineer Thomas Pachoud unveiled his first-ever work using the Hyperlight system—the focus of Pachoud’s artistic residency at the Atelier Arts-Sciences—at the Experimenta fair held at Maison MINATEC, to music created by composer David Guerra. The 30-year-old Pachoud uses an innovative modular holography system he developed himself to transform light into living performances. He […] >>

Julien Claudon, a research scientist at INAC, won the 2014 CNRS Bronze Medal for his nanophotonics research. Claudon studies controlling the interaction between light and matter within nanostructures. The optical antennae Claudon developed under a joint research project involving INAC, the Institut d’Optique, and the Technical University of Denmark have already been proven effective at […] >>

Catherine Picart of LMGP has co-edited Layer-by-Layer Films for Biomedical Applications, published by Wiley. The 530-page multi-authored volume is intended for graduate and post-graduate students, research scientists, and industrial R&D engineers. Picart, an expert in the subject, worked with co-editors Jean-Claude Voegel of Inserm and Frank Caruso of the University of Melbourne, Australia to compile […] >>