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Aref Einizade is a researcher at the SAMOVAR* at Télécom SudParis. After approximately three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI**) at Télécom Paris, he recently joined SAMOVAR through Tenure Track funding supported by the interdisciplinary Engineering for Health (E4H) center at IP Paris***, as part of the DaTSHealth**** program. He will thus continue his work in machine learning, particularly in the modeling of complex graphs, with applications in neuroscience and the biomedical field.

One year after the AI Action Summit, and ahead of the upcoming international event, the “India AI Impact Summit” in New Delhi, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Université PSL, together with HEC Paris, are joining forces to explore how French research is shaping the standards for innovative and responsible AI. “AI in Paris: One Year After the Summit — Building the Future” will bring together French scientists and decision-makers on Monday, February 9, in the afternoon at the Collège de France. The event will highlight the interdisciplinary approach that strengthens our ecosystems, with active participation from the AI clusters Hi! PARIS and PR[AI]RIE, as well as the AI and Society Institute.

Equity is an essential condition for combating climate change, says Céline Guivarch, professor at École Polytechnique. The theme will be discussed at the REFLEXIONS conference on energy transition, along with sustainability and security. Also a Research Director in climate change economics at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED*) at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, the scientist will chair the roundtable on energy justice on February 5, 2026.

The IP Paris Research Day held on December 1, 2025, was dedicated to numerical modeling and the ecological transition. Twenty-one PhD students from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris had the opportunity to present their research by pitching their doctoral work to the scientific community in one minute. On the occasion of the 2026 REFLEXIONS Conference about Energy Transition, this is a look back at several topics presented on December 1st, representative of the research conducted in this field at IP Paris.

On Thursday, 12 March, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is organizing its final competition of My Thesis in 180 seconds. This scientific mediation event is open to the public and will take place at the École Polytechnique, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. PhD students from a variety of scientific fields will have three minutes to present their thesis topic in a clear and captivating way. At the end of the presentations, the jury and the audience will vote to select the most convincing winners.

Ensuring the stability and sustainability of an energy system has strategic political implications, emphasizes Mathieu Xémard, defense engineer and project manager at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security (CIEDS) at IP Paris. Energy security will be the focus of the round table he will chair at the REFLEXIONS conference organized by Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 5, 2026.

On December 1, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris held the fourth edition of its Research Day, focusing on numerical modeling and ecological transition. Around thirty speakers took part in the event, which was aimed at the IP Paris scientific community. It was an opportunity to create synergies and promote major projects for 2025, such as the creation of the Interdisciplinary Center Seas and Oceans (CIMO). Here is a video review of this important event in the IP Paris calendar.

The necessary decarbonisation of the energy sector raises many challenges related to resources, conflicts of resources use and the environment. These issues will be at the heart of the round table on energy sustainability to be held during the REFLEXIONS Conference, which is organised on February 5, 2026 by Institut Polytechnique Paris. This round table will be chaired by Philippe Drobinski, Director of Research at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*) and Director of the Energy 4 Climate (E4C) interdisciplinary center at IP Paris.

The CIEDS and the French Joint defence staff, in partnership with the AID and the IP Paris incubators, are launching a Call for Expressions of Interest aimed at start-ups from the incubators and networks of the IP Paris schools, with a view to their participation in the IDEM initiative.

Philippe Nghe is a professor at the Structural Biology of the Cell Laboratory (BIOC) at École Polytechnique. He was recruited in September 2025 as part of the Tenure Track IP Paris program, within the interdisciplinary Engineering 4 Health center*. After exploring the role of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the origins of life, the researcher will now delve deeper into the link between RNA sequences and their functions, particularly therapeutic ones. To do so, he will rely on artificial intelligence.

Clémence Badie has joined the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics at École Polytechnique as a tenure-track assistant professor supported by the interdisciplinary Materials 4 Society center at IP Paris*. For five years, she will be able to conduct her research on thin film material deposits applied to electrochemistry, such as water electrolysis. Portrait of a researcher committed to academic research and knowledge transfer.

Since January 1st, 2026, Thierry Coulhon has officially been named president of the EuroTech Universities Alliance. Succeeding Koen Janssen (TU/e), he will lead this excellence network during a symbolic year marking its 15th anniversary, with the ambition of strengthening scientific and technological integration on a European scale.