Excellence in research

C. Bouveyron

Professor of applied mathematics (statistics and AI) at Université Côte d’Azur, Charles Bouveyron holds the Chair Inria in Data Sciences. He is research fellow and associate director at the Institut 3IA Côte d’Azur. Member of the team Epione and leader of the team Maasai in INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. His research interests include statistical learning (clustering, classification, regression) in high dimensions, adaptive statistical learning (uncertain labels, evolving distributions, novelty detection). Statistical learning on networks, functional data and heterogeneous data and applications of statistical learning (medicine, image analysis, chemometrics, humanities, ...).

S. Nazarenko

Sergey Nazarenko is CNRS research director at Université Côte d'Azur. His research focuses on fluid dynamics, turbulence, and waves, including wave turbulence, magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence, superfluid turbulence, water waves, Rossby waves, vortices and jets in geophysical fluids, drift waves and zonal jets in plasmas, optical vortices and turbulence, and turbulence in Bose-Einstein condensates. 

In 2019, he was awarded, together with Giorgio Krstulovic, CNRS researcher at the J.L. Lagrange laboratory, a research grant of 8 millions from the Simons Foundation of New York to study wave turbulence. Researchers in mathematics and physics will be involved in this interdisciplinary and international research aimed at understanding and explaining the turbulence of waves. 

J.P. Ampuero

Jean-Paul Ampuero is IRD research director at Université Côte d'Azur. Former professor of Seismology in the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), his research is primarily aimed at understanding the physics of earthquakes, combining theoretical, computational and observational approaches. He is also broadly interested in the assessment, prevention and mitigation of earthquake hazard, in particular in large urban areas close to subduction zones, like in Peru, his native country. 

F. Castellaneta

Francesco Castellaneta is professor of strategy and entreprenariat at Université Côte d'Azur and SKEMA Business School Chair. His research aims to understand how business organisations use, acquire, build and protect their resources in the context of complex strategies.

E. Erosheva

Elena A. Erosheva is professor of statistics and social work at University of Washington and invited for 12 months at Université Côte d'Azur.

G. Lewkovicz

Gregory Lewkovicz, professor of law at Université Libre de Bruxelles, is invited for 12 months at Université Côte d'Azur.

K. Benyekhlef

Karim Benyekhlef is professor of law at Université de Montréal. He was appointed Chair of Excellence and invited by DL4T funded by IDEX.

K. Sigloch

Karin Sigloch is a CNRS research director at Université Côte d'Azur. She studies the structure and dynamics of the earth’s interior, from surface to core. Her primary tool is seismic tomography, the 3-D imaging of the solid earth's interior using the seismic waves generated by large earthquakes.

Previously professor of geophysics at the University of Oxford, she was drawn to the university and the Côte d’Azur Observatory by its links to the ocean - specifically the extraordinary opportunities offered to develop and deploy novel, autonomous sensors for seismology. The oceans make up two thirds of the earth's surface. They could never be entirely covered by existing technology and are therefore one of the great observational frontiers of geophysics.

A. Boisson-Dernier

Dr. Aurélien Boisson-Dernier was born in Paris, earned his degree at Université Paul Sabatier,Toulouse, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. He was awarded an ERC Marie Curie fellowship to teach at the University of Zürich, before joining the University of Cologne where he led his own research team. He is now an INRAE research director at the Agrobiotech Institute of Sophia and holds a UCAJEDI Chair of Excellence at Université Côte d’Azur.

Dr. Aurélien Boisson-Dernier is passionate about the complexity of signaling pathways that sessile plants develop to grow and adapt to their ever-changing environment. His research interests focus on the role of the plant cell wall - the rigid yet flexible shell that surrounds plant cells - during plant development and interaction with phytopathogens. He leads an interdisciplinary project that combines molecular, cellular and evolutionary biology, genetics and biochemistry.

I. Kopelman

Irène Kopelman is a plastic artist coming from Amsterdam for 12 months at Université Côte d'Azur for her project If we were to look at regeneration with a different eye.

V. Gripon

Vincent Gripon is a researcher at IMT Atlantique in artificial intelligence and deep learning. He is invited for 6 months for his project Conjoining robustness improvement and compression -optimization/resource reduction- for deep neural networks.

N. Aikens

Nick Aikens, research curator at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and research affiliate at HEAD, is invited for 8 months at Université Côte d'Azur for his project Nationalisms and Internationalisms : the 1990s and today.

R. Bachelard

Romain Bachelard is a full professor of physics at the Federal University of São Carlos in Brazil. His research focuses on atom-photon interactions.
He is invited for 18-month for his project Classical and quantum scattering of light by disordered systems.

R. Manzini

Rita Manzini is a full professor at the Department of Letters and Philosophy of University of Florence and an Internationally known linguist. Her research focuses on generative grammar, syntax, morphosyntax, Romance linguistics and dialectology.
She is invited for 12-month for her project Models of language variation: evidence from Romance dialects and in-contact languages (MoLav).

H. Teisseyre

Henryk Teisseyre is a full Professor of Physics of the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His research focuses on novel semiconductor physics, and more specifically nitrides. He is searching for new fundamental phenomena and enabling new device functionalities. He is invited for eight months for his project Dipolar exciton fluids on high-quality GaN substrates (DIPOLEX).

Publication scientifique :

1 --- Tomasz Stefaniuk, Jan Suffczy'nski, Malgorzata Wierzbowska, Jaroslaw Z. Domagala, Jaroslaw Kisielewski, Andrzej Klos, Alexander Korneluk and Henryk Teisseyre, Optical, electronic, and structural properties of ScAlMgO4, Phy.Rev. 2023,B 107, 085205

M. Plouviez

Mélanie Plouviez is an associate professor of philosophy at the Research Center for the History of Ideas (CRHI, UPR 4318). Her research examines the philosophy of social sciences.
She was granted a 12-month grant for her project Inheritance in question. 

B. Meazzi

Barbara Meazzi is a full professor of Italian literature and civilizations at the Center for the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean (CMMC, UPR 1193). Her work focuses more particularly on Italian Futurism and the avant-gardes.
She was granted a 6-month grant for her project Hyper Marinetti (HpFTM).

V. Michelet

Véronique Michelet is a full professor of chemistry at the Nice Institute of Chemistry (UMR 7272), Catalysis, Methods for Organic Synthesis & Fine Chemistry Team. Her research interests combine fundamental and applied aspects of catalysis for the development of new synthetic methodologies for carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom formations.
She was awarded a 6-month grant for her project From LIMOnene to VITrimers: synthesis and properties (LIMOVIT).

Scientific publications
1.--- Alice Mija, Elodie Louisy, Sara Lachegur, Veronika Khodyrieva, Philippe Martinaux, Sandra Olivero and Veronique Michelet, Limonene dioxide as a building block for 100% bio-based thermosets, Green Chem., 2021, 23, 9855

2.--- Elodie Louisy, Sandra Olivero, Véronique Michelet and Alice Mija, On the Influence of the cis/trans Stereochemistry of Limonene Oxides toward the Synthesis of Biobased Thermosets by Crosslinking with Anhydrides, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2022, 10, 7169−7179

A. Recio-Blanco

Alejandra Recio-Blanco is an astrophysicist (CNAP astronomer) at the Lagrange laboratory (UMR 7293). Her research is in the field of Galactic Archeology, which is the endeavor to understand the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, by studying the physicochemical properties of its stars.
She was awarded a 6-month grant for her project Galactic Alchemy.

J.S. Bergé

Jean-Sylvestre Bergé is a full professor of Law and a GREDEG member (UMR 7321). He is the recipient of the IDEX UCAjedi ANTECEDENT chair, which seeks to place Law at the heart of the fundamental questions regarding a priori assumptions in theories of knowledge.
He was awarded a 9-month grant for his project ANTECEDENT.

A. Mija

Alice Mija is a full professor of chemistry at the Nice Institute of Chemistry (UMR 7272). Her research focuses on the eco-design of biobased and non-toxic polymers that respect the environment: green chemistry, biomass recovery and industrial waste, recyclability and reprocessability.
She received a 6-month grant for her project BioBased Materials with high biobased carbon content and performances (BBM@).

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Research Calls for proposals

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  IDEX UCAJ.E.D.I. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ''EXCELLENCE FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS'' 2023

  June 30, 2023

  As part of the UCAJ.E.D.I Initiative of Excellence and its policy of attractiveness, Université Côte d'Azur is launching a call for applications for “Fellowships for Young Researchers” aimed at promoting the recruitment of young postdoctoral researchers to its research laboratories.
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  INDIVIDUAL COACHING ADDRESSED TO ERC CANDIDATES

  March 24, 2021

  The IDEX UCAJEDI has joined forces with the European Joint Office (UCA, OCA, CNRS, Inria, SKEMA and CHU de Nice) in order to support you in submitting your ERC projects.

Closed Calls for Proposals

• "CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE UCAJEDI ADVANCED RESEARCH PROGRAM 2021- EXTERNAL CAMPAIGN"
• "CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE UCAJEDI ADVANCED RESEARCH PROGRAM 2021- INTERNAL CAMPAIGN"
• CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE UCAJEDI ADVANCED RESEARCH PROGRAM 2022 - EXTERNAL CAMPAIGN_INTERNATIONAL
• CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE UCAJEDI ADVANCED RESEARCH PROGRAM 2022- EXTERNAL CAMPAIGN_UKRAINE RESIDENTS RESEARCHERS AND ARTISTS
• UCAJ.E.D.I. Advanced Research Program 2023 Internal Campaign
• UCAJ.E.D.I. Advanced Research Program 2023 External campaign
• UCAJEDI CALL FOR APPLICATIONS "FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS" 2021
• UCAJEDI CALL FOR APPLICATIONS "FELLOWSHIPS FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS" 2022