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Entrepreneurs-PhD Award : Second place for Vladimir Gauthier at the national level

Awarded for his « CellSelect project » he proposes a robot capable of improving the precision and speed of cell sorting in the field of innovative therapies.

His work is the result of research carried out of Biomedical Microrobotics Team of FEMTO-ST Institute.

Also can be noted that the company AFULudine (non oily lubrification solutions), spin-off of FEMTO-ST and  UTINAM Institute, gets, as part of this contest, the jury special prize, dedicated to start-ups created for over a year.

  • Eric MAZUR (Harvard Université) en conférence à FEMTO-ST

    Professeur à l'Université de Harvard, ce scientifique de renommée internationale dans le domaine des  interactions ultrarapides entre la lumière et la matière et la science des matériaux  est intervenu dans nos locaux ce vendredi 21 Juin.

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  • John Dudley appointed senior member of the institut universitaire de France

    A member of FEMTO-ST's Optics Department and professor at the University of Franche-Comté, John Dudley has been appointed to a Fundamental Chair in senior category of the Institut Universitaire de France

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  • Développement d'un polymère thermodurcissable biosourcé et recyclable :

    Une étape majeure vers l'intégration des composites à matrices thermodurcissables dans l'économie circulaire et biosourcée.

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  • FEMTO-ST s'implique du 13 au 15 Mai à Pint of Science Festival

    De nombreux chercheurs de l’institut se mobilisent à Besançon à l’occasion de la 11ème édition du festival international de vulgarisation scientifique sur des thématiques variées : optique, robotique, microtechniques pour les médicaments innovants, développement durable.

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  • Laser nanofabrication: nanopillars emerging from sapphire

    Femtosecond lasers are well known for their ability to cut materials with extreme precision and texture surfaces. A FEMTO-ST team has achieved a world first, opening up a new use for these lasers.

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  • Best paper award on BIOSEC 2024

    Raniya Ketfi, Zeina Al Masry, and Noureddine Zerhouni have been awarded the Best Paper Prize at the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies

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  • Mayra Yucely Beb Caal awarded "Female Science Talents Intensive Track Champion 2024"

    A PhD student in FEMTO-ST's micro and nanorobotics team, she is one of 20 talented women from 15 countries, each making a significant contribution in their scientific field.

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  • Two Best Paper awards at Photonics West

    Mathilde Hary and Maxime Romanet win two of the 5 awards for best oral presentations at the world's leading optics-photonics conference

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  • John Dudley awarded EPS Prize for Research into the Science of Light

    This award – jointly with Goëry Genty from Tampere University – recognizes their pioneering contributions to ultrafast nonlinear fibre optics.

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  • Michaël Gauthier, new director of FEMTO-ST

    A new team is taking over the management of the institute for a 5-year term starting in January 2024.

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