Winners of the 1st Edition of the IP Paris PhD Call for Projects
Led by the IP Paris Innovation Lab, this call is part of a broader ambition to bridge fundamental research with innovation and valorization challenges for PhD students and supports the next generation of disruptive innovation.
Through this program, the selected candidates will explore the potential societal transformations enabled by their technology, build a coherent and meaningful systemic vision, and consider the diversity of career paths after their PhD.
By supporting PhD students during their doctoral journey, IP Paris aims to foster the emergence of tomorrow's technologies and applications, while helping PhD students shape their professional paths.
A promising first edition
With 14 applications received, this first edition highlights the PhD student strong interest for exploratory approaches to innovation and research valorization. This call is a strong step in the development of PhD innovation support programs at IP Paris, complementing existing initiatives such as the IP Paris Prematuration Call for Projects.
The applications covered a wide range of fields — including medtech, environment and transition, energy, materials, robotics, digital technologies, and finance — reflecting the richness and diversity of research conducted within IP Paris laboratories.
Winners and support program
Each selected project will benefit from:
- €15,000 in funding to support a three-month extension of the PhD, allowing time to be dedicated to the program
- a structured support program led by the IP Paris Innovation Lab, together with SATT Paris-Saclay, organized into three phases: analyzing the current positioning of the technology within its ecosystem, projecting the technology into future scenarios and defining a concrete roadmap and action plan for its implementation.
4 projects have been selected to benefit from this support program:
- Éléonore AIDONIDIS, École Polytechnique - Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI), project 4D Thermomagnetic Printing: 4D printing of thermomagnetic composite materials using light-driven additive manufacturing techniques. The technology opens up a wide range of potential applications in healthcare, through adaptive heart valves, and in robotics, with motor-free autonomous systems.
- Alicia AMARI, ENSTA - Laboratory of Mechanics and Interfaces (LMI), project Magnetic Bone Scaffold: Optimisation of a coupling between a static magnetic field and a biological medium for therapeutic purposes. The technology holds potential for other medical applications such as grafts, micro-invasive surgery, and tumour treatment, notably by reducing operating time.
- Gabriel BETTON, ENSTA - Lab-STICC Laboratory, project Karst Robot: Design and development of a semi-autonomous, multi-jointed, motorised robotic system adapted to navigation in confined, unstructured environments such as karst networks. The technology could contribute to the exploration of artificial pipelines, as well as the monitoring of coral reefs and kelp forests.
Paul CHARKALUK, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Navier Laboratory, project Eco-innovative Seismic Dampers: Design of eco-innovative shape memory alloy dampers for the seismic protection of infrastructure. The technology holds potential for defence equipment and protection systems, energy dissipation during impacts, and more broadly in the fields of energy storage and aerospace.
This initiative has received government funding, including: ANR-22-EXES-0013 and the PUI IP³ as part of France 2030.