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Passionate about sport and physics, Elodie Doyen devoted her thesis at the Institut des sciences de la mécanique et applications industrielles (IMSIA*) to improving tibial prostheses for Paralympic long-jump athletes. Here's a look back at the work and motivations of Élodie Doyen, who continues to devote herself to her passion as a research engineer at ENSTA Paris and, on occasion, as a purveyor of knowledge.

The Interdisciplinary Center CIEDS had the pleasure of hosting and interviewing Pascal Broquard, a former Special Forces member and consultant in human factors, leadership, and crisis management, for a shared perspective on innovation within the special forces.

The Executive MSc in Cybersecurity, a training program of excellence at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, welcomed its third class in November. This degree program enables high-level operational managers to develop their cybersecurity skills, and offers them new career prospects.

On Wednesday June 5, the national final of the Ma Thèse en 180 secondes scientific mediation competition took place in Nice. Elie Kadoche, an IP Paris doctoral student has been awarded th 3rd jury's prize.

IP Paris holds the 46th position in the QS World University Rankings (WUR) 2025 listing the best universities in the world. IP Paris maintains the 10th spot globally in terms of the reputation of its graduates among employers and climbs to 31st place for employment outcomes.

The Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Études pour la Défense et la Sécurité Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security) at IP Paris will be holding its CIEDS Operation Day on July 4, bringing together researchers, students, companies and personnel from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. This event provides an opportunity to review the Center's main missions and highlight the crucial role that industrial partners play in technology transfer.

The environment, mobility, energy, computing and communications all have one thing in common...materials. There are a multitude of them, with known or unsuspected properties, and their study is a science in its own right. At the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, this science is carried out by the M4S (Materials for Society) center. At the crossroads of fields as varied as physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics and applied mathematics, it is a catalyst for collaboration around this transdisciplinary theme.

Physics to transcribe athletes' sensations. This is the credo of Phyling, the company founded in 2018 by École polytechnique alumni Romain Labbé and Jean-Philippe Boucher. On their former campus, in the Drahi X-Novation Center, the two comparses and their eight employees are now developing customized power sensors (speed and force) for top-level sport. The aim is to improve athletes' performance...and a little more.

If social and environmental impact is becoming key for all companies, how can we analyse the specific case of young innovative startups, for whom impact is still only an ambition? A study conducted by researchers in Management Sciences at the École Polytechnique and the Technology for Change Research Chair at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris has explored how the integration of social and environmental issues shapes the entrepreneurial project and strengthens so-called 'impact-native' startups. This work is published in the Journal of Management & Organization [1].

Against a backdrop of ever-pressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and declining profitability, the development of new drugs targeting pathogenic bacteria and viruses has shifted from the pharmaceutical industry to startups and academic research. Leading the interdisciplinary Antires project, Julian Garrec, a researcher at the Chemistry and Processes Unit (UCP*) of ENSTA, is coordinating the creation of an algorithm capable of predicting the mutations of a pathogen subjected to the pressure of a drug molecule.

Discover for half a day our Master's program in BioMedical Engineering (BME) and the campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

The Next 40 2024 index unveiled on May 22, at the opening of the VivaTech trade show, bears witness to the dynamism of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris ecosystem. Fourteen of the startups listed were incubated in one of the three IP Paris incubators or founded by alumni, and ten of the 33 unicorns in France are IP Paris companies.