News & events

If you want to fight your enemy effectively, you have to know him well. Hannu Myllykallio, research director at Optics and Biosciences Laboratory of the École Polytechnique, and post-doc Rima Zein-Eddine, are studying the molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, particularly in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The enzymes they have isolated are involved in the replication and repair of microbial DNA. They open up encouraging prospects in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

While the poorly controlled use of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic resistance, infection prevention and diagnostic aids are levers for taking action against this phenomenon. At the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics (PMC*) of the École Polytechnique, Anne Chantal Gouget specializes in modifying the surface properties of materials. Her work is applied to the development of innovative techniques for pathogen detection and identification, as well as antimicrobial surfaces to combat nosocomial diseases.

Antibiotic resistance is a major public health problem today. At the crossroads of human, animal and ecosystem health, it needs to be tackled in a global way (One Health), and calls for a different approach to research, also involving civil society players. This is what the Institut Polytechnique de Paris is proposing with its antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project.

The consortium led by IP Paris and HEC Paris, and including Inria, CNRS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and Université de Technologie de Troyes, won the AI Cluster call for projects. Based on the Hi! PARIS Interdisciplinary Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis, the project has been awarded €70 million to create a world-class AI research, training and innovation cluster serving society in France.

The EuroTech University Alliance, of which IP Paris is one of six members, is organizing two conferences on Tuesday June 4, in Brussels and online, on two very different yet intertwined topics : developing excellent research in Africa and resilient water systems in the context of climate change.

For the second edition of INNOV'NIGHT, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) brought together over a hundred students from its member schools as well as partner schools. The challenge that awaited them throughout the night was to immerse themselves in the world of entrepreneurship and develop innovative solutions in teams.

IP Paris ranks 6th in the 2024 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, which list the world's top institutions with 50 years of existence or less. It climbs two spots from 2023.

Swimming is one of the disciplines in which France could well distinguish itself at the 2024 Olympic Games. With this in mind, science is helping athletes to optimize their practice through physical models based on the recording of numerous swimming parameters. Thomas Brunel is doing his doctorate between the hydrodynamics laboratory (LadhyX*) at École polytechnique and the Saint-Venant hydraulics laboratory** at École nationale des ponts et chaussées. In particular, his work aims to gain a better understanding of swimmers' gestures during the start phases of competition.

Bruno Cattan was appointed Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Institut Polytechnique de Paris on May 1, 2024. He holds the same position at École Polytechnique, one of the Institute's five founding schools. His mission, at IP Paris level, is to deploy and manage innovation support programs for students, researchers and startups, and to develop synergies between IP Paris member schools.

Christopher Cripps will soon join the Institut Polytechnique de Paris as Vice-President for Europe and International Affairs. His mission: to contribute to making IP Paris a global benchmark for French scientific and technological excellence through a strategy developed with its five member schools. He will take his new position on 1st June.

This year the E4C Fall School will be about "Interdisciplinary Approaches for Future Smart Grids: Use Cases, Methodologies, and Technologies." Over one week from 7th to 11th October 2024, participants will immerse themselves in a comprehensive exploration of interdisciplinary approaches for future Smart Grids.

On Thursday 25th April, IP Paris International Centre for French Language and Culture celebrated at the Panthéon in Paris the winners of its 'Nouvelles Avancées' competition, which aims to bridge the gap between science and literature. The theme chosen for this 2024 edition, "Should we take time seriously ? From Aristotle to Einstein...", particularly inspired the young writers, who were praised by the jury for the high quality writings.