Our goal is to pull from different backgrounds of scientific expertise to find innovative, long-term and sustainable solutions.
Interest
Our society is stuck working in silos, which stops it from tackling increasingly complex social challenges. It is disconnected from science, when it is the key to resolve current and future social, economic, ecological and numerical crises.
Working in silos means working on issues separately, as different sectors of activity and subjects are isolated from each other, and neither communicate nor collaborate. This obstacle to a global understanding of problems limits innovation and impedes the research of solutions to complex issues. To face contemporary crises, a multidisciplinary approach, open to exchanges between science and society, is crucial.
Thinking differently, wider and further ahead means scientific specialists meeting up and exchanging ideas to find innovative, long-term and sustainable solutions.
The ENS Paris-Saclay has the ambition of creating new multidisciplinary sponsorship chairs to face these new issues of general interest.
New Project :
“Risk prevention for physical and psychological fragility in teenagers is at the heart of our project. Early detection is essential to identify disorders that can become severe if not taken charge of in time, and have effects on different aspects of the patient’s life.” Lise Haddouk, senior lecturer and project leader
This experimental research program consists in the design of an innovative prevention plan for psychophysiological fragility in teenagers aged 15-18.
It is a multidisciplinary research project at the crossroads of neuroscience and mathematics.
Adolescence is a pivotal time in life. According to the World Health Organization, one out of seven teenagers suffer from a mental disorder. During adolescence, teenagers must adapt to many physical and psychological changes. It is a time during which they are very vulnerable. They must benefit from an appropriate prevention system in order to prevent a mental or physical pathology from becoming chronic.
The project is contemplating a method based on quantifying certain behavioral, physiological and psychological variables throughout a 3 year longitudinal study of participants, and on detecting weak and early signals potentially linked to the appearance of a physical or mental pathology.
Coordinated by Lise Haddouk, senior lecturer at the Centre Borelli (a shared research unit between the ENS Paris-Saclay, the CNRS, the INSERM, the Université Paris-Cité and the army’s medical department), this project will be conducted with the Necker hospital and the support of the academic board of Essonne.
Objective: 400 teenagers aged 15-18 will take part in a study to design an innovative prevention plan for psychophysiological fragility.
Does your company wish to establish a strong collaboration with us on a social issue?
A chair allows :
The creation and continuation of an ambitious research program. It allows the company to have a tight relationship with a team of researchers and professors, to benefit from scientific and technological oversight, to reinforce an innovative enterprise and to promote jobs in the industrial sector.
The development of education in an emergent field. It is also a platform for exchange and accumulation of expertise in different fields to help break away from outdated frameworks and tackle the great socio-economic issues of the given sector of activity.
To promote cooperation and synergy between academic and industrial partners.
Companies’ fundings help us develop (renewable) 5-year research and training plans with a team generally comprising a renowned professor, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. The chair’s leadership (management, administration, funding and communication) is coordinated by the chairwoman/man.
For instance, a chair can be involved in the following activities: a research project; doctorates and postdoctoral research; research, training or mobility grants; scientific publications; conferences and seminars; innovative pedagogical seminars; prizes; welcoming foreign researchers; coordinating international networks; inviting professionals in training programs; buying equipment…
Current industrial chairs
“The IDAML Chair was founded in 2017 to foster scientific expertise in data science and machine learning applied to industrial issues, in collaboration with academic and industrial partners.”
Mathilde Mougeot, professor and chairwoman
Main objectives:
Developing research and scientific knowledge surrounding themes decided on in collaboration with industrial partners.
Training graduate students, PhD students and postdoctoral research fellows in industrial applications of AI.
Coordinating an international scientific community through seminars and conferences.
Circulating research results via free publications and softwares to facilitate the transfer of technology to the industry.
Key themes:
Transfer Learning: Faster learning through the use of less data thanks to the transfer of strong decisional rules.
Graph Signal Processing :The analysis of multivariate signals on graphs by combining signal processing, graph theory and machine learning.
Complex systems monitoring: Modeling data to detect and predict events in industrial systems.
Operational research: Solving problems of discrete optimization for network management and ECUs.
Partners : ATOS, Banque de France, Bertin Technologies/ChapsVision, Michelin, SNCF, CEA, ENSIIE.
“Created in 2022 by the ENS Paris-Saclay and RTE (Réseau de transport d’électricité (Electric Power Transmission Network)), the PhLAMES Chair aims to provide solutions to technical and scientific challenges in high voltage electric power transmission. Its goal is to find innovative solutions to industrial problems with a cutting-edge scientific approach.”
Frédéric Dias, professor and project leader
Main objective:
Solving complex issues in electric power transmission by using advanced scientific approaches and state-of-the-art solutions.
Industrial context: RTE is in charge of electric power transmission in France, transferring energy from production sites (power plants, renewable energies) to electric power distribution networks and industrial key accounts. It ensures interconnectedness with European networks and fosters the integration of renewable energies. The smooth operation of the network is dependent on the precise understanding of infrastructural decay and response to environmental conditions.
The Chair relies on three laboratories at the ENS Paris-Saclay:
The Borelli Center: mathematical modeling expertise, statistical learning and data hybridization.
SATIE: specialised in electrical engineering, competence in instrumentation and nondestructive testing.
LMPS : specialised in civil and mechanical engineering, expertise in mechanical and computational modeling..
Industrial partner: RTE (Réseau de transport d’électricité)
Created in early July of 2024, this new chair is dedicated to developing quantum sensors for applications in defense and security. It is a joint project between the ENS Paris-Saclay, the CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, Thales R&T and the CEA-DAM
This project is in continuity with long-lasting bilateral cooperations between the ENS Paris-Saclay, Thales R&T (via a shared laboratory with LUMIN) and the CEA-DAM.
Led by Julien Vanecloo and Jean-François Roch, this initiative also relies on cutting-edge equipment from EquipEx+ e-Diamant. The project focuses on research and innovation in quantum technologies as well as pre- and postdoctoral training at Paris-Saclay University.
Chair patronage or Research Tax Credit (RIC in French)?
These two programs are complementary.
1 - When sponsoring a chair, the public nature of results ensures the sharing of knowledge with socio-economic spheres at a national, even international level, and a wide-spanning communication. Chair patronage on an issue of general interest allows companies to reduce 60% of funds via the corporate tax. This kind of patronage chair can be created by a research collaboration agreement eligible for the “Research Tax Credit”.
2 - The industrial chairs program funded in cooperation with the ANR (National Research Agency) offers another advantageous framework for the development of science while aiming for direct results in the industrial world. If the ANR accepts the project, it provides 50% of the funds while the company provides the other 50%.
