Learning by Research

Recognizing the scientific excellence of our PhD Students

• the Academic Thesis Prize, awarded to seven people based on criteria of excellence specific to each disciplinary field and represented by the 13 doctoral schools on the site and research departments. This year an eighth thesis prize is awarded for interdisciplinary research work covering at least two significantly different doctoral specialties ;
• The two Innovation Thesis Prizes are awarded to a work of exceptional quality that also includes an approach (special prize) or a project of valorization and transfer.
• One SER Thesis Award rewards among the winners of the academic and innovation thesis awards, a thesis work that respects the criteria issued by the establishment in terms of societal and environmental responsibility both in the conduct of the thesis and in the results. The winner is thus doubly rewarded.

As in previous years, candidates are judged on the basis of the scientific excellence of their thesis, their ability to present their work clearly and concisely, the scientific interest and spin-offs for their discipline, and the quality of their scientific production during their thesis. Additional criteria are added according to the nature of the thesis prize: interdisciplinary, innovation and SER.

Winners of the Academic Thesis Prize

Victor BOONE - Optimal Regrets in Markov Decision Processes.

Doctoral School: ED MSTII – Informatics and Mathematics
Research laboratory: Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble (LIG - CNRS/Inria/UGA - Grenoble INP-UGA )
Thesis supervision: Bruno GAUJAL

> To know more about the thesis of Victor BOONE

Anna BORNE - HALF-BRAIN: Multimodal evaluation of neurocognitive functioning and anatomical cerebral reorganization after hemispherotomy in patients with Rasmussen’s encephalitis.

Doctoral School: ED ISCE - Health, cognition and environmental engineering
Research laboratory: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC- CNRS/UGA/USMB)
Thesis supervision: Monica BACIU, Marcela PERRONE-BERTOLOTTI and Christine BULTEAU-PEYRIE

> To know more about the thesis of Anna BORNE

Corentin GARIEL - Organiser la responsabilité sociétale des firmes multinationales : le cas de la pollution plastique

Doctoral School: ED SG – Management Sciences
Research laboratory: Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées à la Gestion (CERAG - UGA- Grenoble INP-UGA)
Thesis supervision: Anne BARTEL-RADIC and Thomas REVERDY

> To know more about the thesis of Corentin GARIEL

Laura GUISLAIN - Organizing social responsibility of multinational corporations : the case of plastic pollution

Doctoral School: ED PHYS - Physics
Research laboratory: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (LiPhy - CNRS/UGA)
Thesis supervision: Eric BERTIN

> To know more about the thesis of Laura GUISLAIN

Lucas VAROTO - Microstructural Optimization of Cu-Cr alloys for electrical contacts in vacuum interrupters.

Doctoral School: ED I-MEP² - Engineering - Materials, Mechanical, Environment, Energetics, Processes, Production
Research laboratory: Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP - CNRS/UGA - Grenoble INP-UGA)
Thesis supervision: Jean-Jacques BLANDIN, Guilhem MARTIN, Sophie ROURE and Antony PAPILLON

> To know more about the thesis of Lucas VAROTO

Thomas FRASSON - Heterogeneous heat flux from mantle convection simulations: impact on the geodynamo and magnetic reversals.

Doctoral School: ED STEP - Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Research laboratory: Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre - UGA/CNRS/USMB/IRD/UGE)
Thesis supervision: Henri-Claude NATAF and Stéphane LABROSSE

> To know more about the thesis of Thomas FRASSON 

Matthieu HAAKE - Development of a Co-based molecular engineered cathode for CO₂ reduction: From the fundamental study of a grafted catalyst to electrolyser integration.

Doctoral School: ED CSV – Chemistry and Life Sciences
Research laboratory: Laboratoire Chimie et Biologie des Métaux (LCBM - CEA/CNRS/UGA)
Thesis supervision: Vincent ARTERO and Bertrand REUILLARD

> To know more about the thesis of Matthieu HAAKE

Winner of the interdisciplinary academic thesis Prize

Cédric DENTANT - High mountains and flowering plants: geography of a science of life on the edge of terrestrial habitability.

Doctoral School: ED SHPT - Humanities, Political and Territorial Sciences
Research laboratory: Laboratoire des sciences sociales (Pacte - CNRS/ UGA -Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA)
Thesis supervision: Philippe BOURDEAU and Pascal MAO

> To know more about the thesis of Cédric DENTANT

Winners of the innovation thesis Prize and SER Thesis Prize

Émilien FRÉVILLE - Use of twin-screw extruder for innovative cellulose based packaging by injection and thermocompression.

Doctoral School: ED I-MEP² - Engineering - Materials, Mechanical, Environment, Energetics, Processes, Production
Research laboratory: Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés pour la Bioraffinerie, les Matériaux Bio-sourcés et l'Impression Fonctionnelle (LGP2 - CNRS/UGA - Grenoble INP-UGA/IIM/AGEFPI)
Thesis supervision: Julien BRAS, Evelyne MAURET and Elisa ZENO

> To know more about the thesis of Émilien FRÉVILLE

Winners of the special innovation thesis Prize

Charlotte LAFFONT - Housing design through sonic experiments - COLEXSON 1.1 scale prototype to experiment future soundscapes from a naturally ventilated housing.

Doctoral School: ED SHPT - Humanities, Political and Territorial Sciences
Research laboratory: Laboratoire Ambiances Architectures Urbanités (CNRS/UGA - ENSAG-UGA/ENSAN/Centrale Nantes)
Thesis supervision: Olivier BALAY and Samuel TOCHON DANGUY

> To know more about the thesis of Charlotte LAFFONT