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Jacqueline Bloch is a professor and lecturer at École Polytechnique and a CNRS research director at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N), a joint research unit of CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay. Also a member of the French Academy of Sciences, she receives this gold medal, the highest distinction of the CNRS and one of the most prestigious French scientific awards. She is notably recognized for her fundamental research work dedicated to polaritons, hybrid particles resulting from the coupling between light and matter.

Eight projects from Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) are among the 2026 awardees of the French State Innovation Competitions (Concours d’innovation de l’État), covering a wide range of fields including space technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, medical technologies, industrial optimization and ocean observation.

Cambyse Rouzé, an Inria researcher at Télécom Paris and a member of the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI), Marc-Olivier Renou, Junior Professor Chair holder at Inria Saclay, affiliated with the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CPHT) at École polytechnique, and Vicky Kalogeiton, professor at École Polytechnique and member of the École Polytechnique Computer Science Laboratory (LIX ***), have all three received an ERC Starting Grant for their respective projects, Q-GIBBS, QINF and FLASH.