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Grenoble INP-Phelma’s newest faculty member is an expert in hardware security. Brice Colombier joined the TIMA lab’s AMfoRS* group in September. His research focuses on attacks targeting integrated circuits and the associated countermeasures. Some attacks measure a circuit’s electrical consumption to extract data, for example. And the most sophisticated attacks use laser injection devices whose […] >>

Alain Sylvestre, a Université Grenoble Alpes faculty member and research scientist at G2ELab, will succeed Mireille Mouis as director of the FMNT on January 1, 2021. Sylvestre has served as deputy director for the past two years.  Fellow Université Grenoble Alpes professor Skandar Basrour, who also conducts research at TIMA, will succeed Sylvestre as deputy […] >>

Phelma was able to physically welcome first-year students to school on campus on September 11. With social distancing and other Covid-19 measures in effect, the first day of school was unlike any other. Three auditoriums were prepared (with every other seat left open) to welcome the incoming first-year class. The students may have missed out […] >>

Leading international integrated circuit conference IEDM is going 100% online from December 13 to 15. CEA-Leti usually holds its traditional workshop at the same time and the popular event generally brings in 200 international participants. Since that won’t be possible this year, the organizers in Grenoble are taking the workshop online.The workshop will cover the […] >>

MINATEC’s legendary Midi MINATEC Friday brown bag lunch talks, put on hold in mid-March, started up again on Friday, October 2.  The next talk, scheduled for Friday, October 9, will be given by Grenoble’s contenders in the iGEM synthetic biology competition.To ensure compliance with Covid-19 prevention measures, the number of open seats in the auditorium […] >>