Awards and Distinctions

The scientific and academic excellence of Mines Saint-Étienne over the years.

2026

January 2026

  • Up to Start Award 2025
    • Khaled Medini (Henri Fayol Institute)
      Winner for his project Agile2Pro.
    • Asmpa Benyahia (PhD student in bioelectronics)
      Jury’s Special Award for her project Defuse.
  • City of Marseille Thesis Award
    • Magdalena Potz (Senior Lecturer)
      2nd Prize for her thesis on the co-creation of local public policies.

2025

December 2025

  • ERC Grant (European Research Council)
    • Alexandra Vallet
      Winner for her research project Brainsomnia.

November 2025

  • IMT-Académie des Sciences Grand Prize
    • Stéphane Avril (Professor and Director of SAINBIOSE)
      Major distinction for his foundational research in biomechanics.
  • Pépite Award 2025
    • Alexandre Chalin
      For his entrepreneurial project Blue Smart Robotics.
  • 1st Jacquet Prize (Micrography)
    • Maelig Ollivier (SPIN center)
      For his remarkable scientific image Chrysanthemum of Tenorite.
  • 2025 Congress of the French Society of Biomechanics
    • Stéphane Avril (Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering)
      Christian Oddou Award.
    • Fanette Chassagne (Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering)
      Travel Award.
    • Béatrice Bisighini (Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering)
      Best PhD Thesis Award.

October 2025

  • 2nd prize in the Tinnov 2025 competition
    Awarded to the team of Josué Madama Malende, PhD student at the Fayol Institute, member of UMR 5600 EVS
  • Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists
    Recognition of global impact for 9 researchers from the school:
    • Dominique Feillet, Centre of Microelectronics in Provence
    • András Borbely, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering
    • Valérie Forest, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering
    • David Eglin, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering
    • Jérémie POURCHEZ, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering
    • Stéphane Avril, Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering
    • Romain Quey, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering
    • Rodolphe Leriche, Henri Fayol Institute
    • François Thevenot, retired from Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering

September 2025

  • 21st International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2025)
    Best poster award presented to Lina Nachabe, research engineer at LIMOS (UMR 6158).
  • Workshop-School on Agents, Environments, and Applications (WESAAC)
    Best paper award presented to Elena Yan, PhD student at the Fayol Institute.
  • European Aerosol Conference EAC2025
    Best scientific poster award presented to Juan Pablo Vasco Marin (BIOPI PhD student) for his work: “Ex-vivo respiratory pharmacokinetics model for inhaled therapies using negative pression ventilation and perfusion.”

July 2025

  • Mines-Télécom Foundation Award
    • Sylvain Thomas
      2nd prize (apprenticeship category) for his work at STMicroelectronics.
    • Flavie Morel
      3rd prize (internship category) for optimizing flows at Hospices Civils de Lyon.
  • L’Oréal Double Degree Scholarship
    • Yann Brière
      ISMIN student.
  • 11th IFAC International Conference (MIM 2025)
    “Commended Paper Award” presented to Xavier Delorme, lecturer-researcher at LIMOS (UMR 6158), for his work on modelling and control of manufacturing systems.

June 2025

  • Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
    “Best Senior Program Committee Reviewer Award” presented to Antoine Zimmermann, lecturer-researcher and member of LIMOS, for the quality of his scientific reviews.
  • Systèmes d’Information et Management (SIM) journal
    Best Reviewer Award presented to Julien De Benedittis, lecturer-researcher at the Fayol Institute and member of the COACTIS laboratory.

April 2025

  • French Society of Metallurgy and Materials (SF2M)
    • Jenny Faucheu
      Bastien & Guillet Medal (Academics and scientific communication).
    • Alixe Dréano
      Jean & André Rist Medal (Hydrogen/materials interactions).
    • Ayobami Daramola
      Jacques Dalla Torre Award (Numerical simulation).

2024

September 2024

  • Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientists
    • Distinction for 6 researchers:
      V. Forest, S. Avril, J. Pourchez, D. Eglin, D. Feillet, F. Montheillet.
  • 1st European CoDEMO Prize
    • F. Dang-Nhu, L. Mougeot, M. Autexier, and M. Boutault
      For their collaborative project.

July 2024

  • Mines-Télécom Foundation Award
    • Sarah Ruffier
      Best Apprenticeship Award and Public’s Favorite Award.

June 2024

  • Doctor Honoris Causa
    • Prof. Gerhard A. Holzapfel
      Awarded to this global specialist in biomedical engineering.

April 2024

  • ERC Grant (European Research Council)
    • Stéphane Avril
      Winner for his project Juven Twin.

2023

November 2023

  • 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023)
    Best reviewer award presented to Maxime Lefrançois, researcher at the Fayol Institute.

April 2023

  • International conference on linked data quality and anomaly detection
    Best presentation award presented to Michel Kamel, PhD student at the Henri Fayol Institute (LIMOS Laboratory).
  • 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC)
    2nd best paper award presented to the Henri Fayol Institute team: Isaac Fatokun, Arun Raveendran Nair, Thamer Mecharnia, Maxime Lefrançois, Victor Charpenay, Fabien Badeig and Antoine Zimmermann.
  • 16th International Francophone Congress on Entrepreneurship and SMEs (CIFEPME)
    Best paper award presented to Nadine Dubruc and Fatima Bannout, researchers at the Henri Fayol Institute (Coactis Laboratory).

January 2023

  • 15th Major Risks Information Forum
    Thematic award “Modernising risk culture, awareness-raising and informing populations” presented to Eric Piatyszek, lecturer-researcher at the Fayol Institute.
  • IMT 2023 Awards
    Jury award “Engagement, Pedagogy and Teaching” presented to the working group on controversies, including Nadine Dubruc and Michelle Mongo (Fayol Institute).

2022

September 2022

  • SuPerForm Challenge 2022
    Award for the game “EsaTension”, created by students and supervised by Nadine Dubruc (Henri Fayol Institute).
  • Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Award
    Emerging initiative award 2022 presented to Audrey Tanguy, Valérie Laforest, Jonathan Villot and Hervé Vaillant (Fayol Institute).

July 2022

  • GISEH Saint-Étienne Congress
    Best student paper award presented to Laura Uhl (IAS/CIS PhD student) for her work on predicting emergency hospital care pathways.

2021

November 2021

  • Défi-Autonomie Days
    1st Prize of the Défi d’Or (category “Social connection”) for the LISE du MedtechLab project, focusing on geolocated monitoring of vulnerable people.

April 2021

  • 13th IMT symposium
    Joint 2nd prize in the poster-video competition presented to Nada Bendahmane (Fayol Institute) for her work on renewable energy and territories.

2019

July 2019

  • MIM 2019 Conference
    1st prize of the “IFAC Young Author Award” presented to Serena Finco and Mohammed-Amine Abdous, PhD students at the Henri Fayol Institute (LIMOS).
  • Francophone Knowledge Engineering Days 2019
    Best paper award presented to Nicolas Seydoux (LAAS), Maxime Lefrançois (Fayol Institute) and Lionel Médini (LIRIS).

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