Aix-Marseille Université will honour 16 young researchers and 5 eminent professors at its 2021 Scientific Evening, on Wednesday 17 November at 6 p.m. in the Gastaut amphitheatre (Aix-Marseille Université, Building A, Pharo campus). This event is invitation-only with presentation of the health pass.
As a research-intensive university, Aix-Marseille Université makes a major contribution to the knowledge economy and to its dissemination thanks to its remarkable scientific potential in fundamental and applied research. During its great honorary and scientific evening, in the presence of President Eric Berton, Aix-Marseille Université will award both the Thesis Prizes and the Honorary doctorates. The recipients embody excellence in their respective fields and testify to the high scientific level of the university.
In the first part of the evening, 16 young researchers will be recognized for the quality of their research work and their thesis defended in 2020:
- Loïc Aloisio, "Les mémoires hérétiques : Han Song face à la politique mémorielle chinoise ou la science-fiction comme littérature de témoignage.", IrAsia (UMR 7306)
Accompanied by his thesis director Pierre Kaser. - Hélène Botcazou, "Voiliers de cabotage sur le littoral de la Corse entre le XVIe siècle et le début du XXe siècle : essai de généalogie comparative des traditions de construction navale.", LA3M (UMR 7298)
Accompanied by her thesis directors Nicolas Fauchere & Eric Rieth. - Laura Carmouze, "L’intégration des relations inter-organisationnelles entre les métropoles et les régions : processus de structuration des stratégies d’attractivité territoriale", CERGAM (UR 4225)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Robert Fouchet & Christophe Alaux. - Marine Cellier, "Makandal en métamorphose. Héroïsmes et identités dans la littérature caribéenne (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles).", CIELAM (UR 4235)
Accompanied by his thesis director Crystel Pinçonnat. - Mathieu Chaptal, "De Genève à la France, la pensée républicaine d’Etienne Clavière : Réforme financière, Souveraineté populaire et Révolution (1735-1793) ", CERHIIP (UR 2186)
Accompanied by her thesis directors Christian Bruschi & Eric Gasparini. - Adeline Crinier, "Caractérisation transcriptomique des cellules lymphoïdes innées", CIML (UMR 7280)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Eric Vivier & Emilie Narni-Mancinelli. - Charalampos Galouzis, " Trans-homolog interaction of yellow controls its sex-biased expression pattern in the wing of Drosophila biarmipes ", IBDM (UMR 7288)
Accompanied by his thesis supervisor Benjamin Prud'homme. - Yolaine Gassier, "Les arènes discrètes du paritarisme régional. Dispositives, acteurs et pratiques du " dialogue social territorial ", MESOPOLHIS (UMR 7064)
Accompanied by her thesis directors Philippe Aldrin & Eric Verdier. - Louis Guillot, "De l’intérêt d’un formalisme quadratique pour la continuation des solutions d’un système dynamique et de leurs bifurcations – Applications aux instruments à anche", LMA (UMR 7031)
Accompanied by his thesis supervisors Christophe Vergez & Bruno Cochelin. - Adrien Kuntz, "Tester la gravité avec le problème à deux corps", CPT (UMR 7332)
Accompanied by his thesis supervisor Frederico Piazza. - Avril Meffray, "Infections des populations du passé : développement et application d’une approche originale de paléoépidémiologie intégrative", ADES (UMR 7268)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Philippe Biagini & Yann Ardagna. - Alberto Prati, " Memory and Subjective Well-Being. Empirical Analysis of Workers' and Consumers' Endogenous Recall Behaviors", AMSE (UMR 7316)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Olivier Chanel & Stéphane Lucchini. - Viktoria Stanova, "Calcul des contraintes exercées sur les feuillets de bioprothèses aortiques. Incidence sur la durabilité de ces dispositifs médicaux", LBA (UMR T24)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Régis Rieu & Lionel Thallon. - Aurélien Velleret, "Mesures quasi-stationnaires et applications à la modélisation de l’évolution biologique", I2M (UMR 7373)
Accompanied by his thesis supervisors Etienne Pardoux & Michael Kopp. - Xue Yang, "Cucurbit[n]urils Fonctionnalisés : Transporteurs de médicaments avancés", ICR (UMR 7273)
Accompanied by her thesis supervisors Olivier Ouari & Michel Khrestchatisky. - Ana Zappa, " Embodied semantics put to the test : eletrophysiological evidence from virtual reality and classic envrionments ", LPL (UMR 7309)
Accompanied by her thesis director Cheryl Frenck-Mestre.
Then, five eminent professors from different continents will be distinguished for their career and their contribution to science by the insignia and diplomas of Doctorate Honoris Causa, the most prestigious university title:
- Pr. Mamadou Badji
Professor and Rector
Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor, Senegal
Presented by Eric Gasparini
History of Law, Colonial Law | Faculty of Law and Political Science
- Prof. Tasuku Hojo
Professor and Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine (2018)
Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
Presented by Philippe Pierre
Immunology | Faculty of Science
- Prof. John Macdonald Mackenzie
Professor of History
University of Lancaster, England
Presented by Gilles Teulie and Matthew Graves
European Imperial History | Arts, Letters, Languages and Humanities Training and Research Unit
- Prof. Daniel Mercure
Full Professor and Director of the Department of Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada
Presented by Thierry Berthet
Sociology of Work | Faculty of Economics and Management
- Prof. Vincent L. Pecoraro
University Professor, President of the International Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, USA
Presented by Anabella Ivancich
Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry | Faculty of Science
This ceremony will be held in compliance with the sanitary measures in place. The health pass is mandatory.