Among the prestigious awards presented by the Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, October 27, two researchers from ENS de Lyon, Yanick Ricard (LGL-TPE) and Bruno Salvy (LIP), along with an alumna, Sarah Watson (class of 1987-2009), were honored.
Yanick Ricard, emeritus research director at CNRS in the Lyon Earth, Planets, Environment Geology Laboratory (LGL-TPE), received the Dolomieu Prize. His fundamental contributions concern Earth's dynamics, modeling the structure of the Earth's mantle and explaining the absence of plate tectonics on other planets.
The Michel Monpetit Prize was awarded to Bruno Salvy, research director at Inria and member of the Parallel Computing Laboratory (LIP). A specialist in symbolic computation, his research focuses on determining which mathematical calculations a computer can perform and their efficiency, with applications in analysis and combinatorics.
Sarah Watson, a physician-scientist at the Curie Institute and an alumna of ENS de Lyon, received the Léon Alexandre Étancelin Foundation Prize. She leads a research team focused on rare cancers, utilizing artificial intelligence to identify their origins and improve patient care, while also studying sarcomas to develop new targeted treatments.
