News

Highly sensitive measurement of refractive index over a wide spectrum
Friday, 11 March, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
Scientists from the OASIS team at LAAS-CNRS have designed and fabricated an integrated optical sensor that measures the refractive index of the surrounding medium with very high sensitivity over a wide spectrum of wavelengths. This novel result opens a new way to realize ultra-sensitive integrated refractometers for the detection of chemical species, with potential applications in environmental monitoring and many industrial processes.
LAAS-CNRS supports the Ukrainian people
Monday, 7 March, 2022 - 10:00
The LAAS-CNRS expresses its full support to the Ukrainian people and its scientific community in the tragic ordeal they are currently going through. The laboratory is ready to welcome Ukrainian researchers who would like to join the PAUSE program set up by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
David Pech, winner of an ERC "Proof-of-Concept" grant
Friday, 25 February, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
David Pech, head of the NEO team at LAAS-CNRS, has been awarded a Proof-of-Concept grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project "3D-APP: High-energy micro-supercapacitors based on low-cost materials".
Automation: a new tool to study actuator saturation
Thursday, 24 February, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
The actuators of a dynamic system, such as the ailerons of an airplane or the valves of a hydraulic device, are sometimes pushed to their maximum amplitude. This saturation must be well understood in order to prevent it from disturbing or even damaging the whole mechanism. To this end, researchers from the MAC team at LAAS-CNRS and the L2S lab have developed a mathematical approach that allows to better characterize the safe operating domain of a system whose actuators are saturated.
Morgan Delarue, winner of an ERC Starting Grant
Monday, 10 January, 2022 - 00:00 to 23:30
Morgan Delarue, a physicist in the MILE team at LAAS-CNRS, has been awarded a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project UnderPressure.
Decease of Jean-Paul Laumond
Monday, 20 December, 2021 - 00:00
Jean-Paul Laumond, a roboticist specializing in humanoid robotics and motion planning, director of research emeritus at the CNRS and member of the Academy of Sciences, died on Monday, December 20.
Ruggero Lot receives the Best Student Paper Award at NMDC 2021
Awards
Wednesday, 15 December, 2021 - 00:00 to 23:30
Ruggero Lot, PhD student within the M3 team at LAAS-CNRS co-directed with SISSA (Trieste, Italy), has received the Best Student Paper Award at NMDC 2021 in Vancouver, Canada. He was awarded for his work entitled "Developing a Neural Network Potential to Investigate Interface Phenomena in Solid Phase Epitaxy".
Hélène Waeselynck receives a 10-year most influential paper award
Awards
Tuesday, 23 November, 2021 - 00:00 to 23:30
Hélène Waeselynck, research within the TSF team at LAAS-CNRS has received a 10-year most influential paper award from the SoSyM journal. This award has been announced at the MODELS 2021 conference which held virtually on October, from 10 to 15.
Amirouche Oumaziz receives a Best Paper Award at ESREF 2021
Awards
Monday, 1 November, 2021 - 00:00 to 23:30
Amirouche Oumaziz, PhD student within ISGE team at LAAS-CNRS et CS group at LAPLACE, has received the Best Paper Award at ESREF 2021 for his paper entitled « Fast cut-off, low I2T and high temperature monolithic on-chip fuse on silicon substrate for new fail-safe embedded power switch ».
Investigating protein flexibility with robotics-inspired approaches
Wednesday, 27 October, 2021 - 00:00
Many proteins involve flexible regions, usually called loops, which play key functional roles for antibody-antigen recognition or modulate enzyme activity, for instance. It is in this context that the researchers of RIS team at LAAS-CNRS have modeled flexible loops of proteins using robotics and artificial intelligence algorithms.

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