The CNRS is committed to providing responses to the planetary challenge of climate change. Through its research and innovations, it plays a role in a global dynamic structured around the sustainable…
An international network in quantum science and technology, set in motion by the CNRS, will officially be launched on 1 January 2023 with 16 French and Canadian universities.
Between delays in delivering the new European infrastructure under construction in Sweden and uncertainty surrounding the future of the Laue Langevin Institute, which is the last neutron source on…
From coral reefs to public policy - France's overseas territories are at the forefront in ocean research. They serve as natural laboratories and innovation hubs to help build a science that focuses…
For some years now, research laboratories have been suffering from the effects of worldwide inflation on the price of helium, an essential gas in many scientific disciplines. In response, the CNRS is…
On May 23rd 2025, the CNRS and the INRAE released a collective scientific expert review on the use of plastics in agriculture and food. The report was commissioned by two ministries and a government…
The CNRS has officially been a registered operator of drones for the last eight years. This title is the result of a decade of work by the CNRS Drones Unit on structuring and professionalising pilots…
At a conference held last November 18th and 19th, researchers from the ' Du monde d’avant au monde d’après ' research programme presented the findings of their multidimensional survey of…
Director of the Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS)
Lionel Buchaillot is a CNRS Research Professor and a specialist in the physics of micro- and nano-systems and thin film materials. He conducts his research at the Institute of Electro...
Sandra Lavorel was born in Lyon in 1965, and joined the CNRS in 1994. She has been a member of the French Académie des Sciences since 2013. A specialist in the functioning and dynamic...
