Project Type: Visiting Student Researcher Fellowships

Riccardo Barontini

My research aims to explain the reasons and conditions of the renewal of the aesthetic reflection on the concept of “Imagination” in interwar France. Considering the…

Paul Villoutreix

What makes individuals different? How and when do differences appear during early embryogenesis? Can we identify the sources of these differences, from random processes to…

Claudia Liuzza

The United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is Paris-based specialized agency of the UN, whose task is to create the conditions for dialogue…

Gabriel Billings

Bacteria are extraordinarily important to many aspects of our existence, and are both extremely useful, and extremely dangerous, to humans. Many bacteria, both beneficial…

Emmanuel Destenay

My research focuses on the emigration of WWI Irish ex-servicemen in the United States in the 1920s. At the end of the First World War, hundreds of demobilized Irish veterans…

Dimitri Bouche

Music composers’ work with computers is generally divided in the two distinct stages of composition and performance. Each stage requires specific methodology and software:…

Nina Miolane

How can we use computational tools to help clinicians in their daily practice? To develop the personalization of therapies, to aid the diagnosis? Are we sure that we can…

Gabin Personeni

The widespread use of patient Electronic Health Records in hospitals generates large volumes of data offering exciting opportunities for novel discoveries in medicine.…

Mathilde Emériau

Today, 144 countries have committed to grant asylum to those fleeing persecutions by signing the 1952 Geneva Convention on Refugees. However, the Convention does not specify…

Héloïse Berkowitz

My visit to the Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) provides an opportunity to develop collaborative research between Stanford and Ecole Polytechnique on the question of oceans…

Jennifer Wischhusen

Despite big advances in disease management, hepatocellular carcinoma (a primary liver cancer) remains the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Indeed, 50% of…

Martin Fortier

My doctoral research deals with what philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists call the sense of reality. How does one’s mind identify what is real and what is not real…

Erwan Pannier

Successful fight against global warming cannot be achieved without the massive development of alternative carbon-free energies. Clean electricity can already be produced…

Amélie Héliou

Proteins and ribonucleic acids (RNAs) play a major role in a variety of biological processes. The function of RNA highly depends on its three-dimensional conformations,…

Béline Pasquini

During ancient times, major trade flows spread from the Mediterranean Sea to Northern Europe through the Rhone valley (France). These trade flows participated in the…

I’m going to work in the Stanford Plasma Physics Laboratory (SPPL) with Prof. Mark Cappelli on optical computers. This project aims to overcome current electronic computer limits, especially in the…
My dissertation, “The Drama of our World: Spectator and Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe,” is a comparative study on characterizations of the subject, the poet and the dramatic…
Half of the world’s 25.9 million recorded refugees are under eighteen. The past two decades have seen an increase in artistic renditions of stateless children that nuance, complicate, and resist mass…
“Spectral” music, a contemporary movement initiated in the 70’s, uses the acoustic properties of sound as its main source material. In “spectral” music works, scientific tools and techniques are used…
This project seeks to explore the ways in which capitalism as a social process was re-established, reorganized, and operated in the late Ottoman Empire, especially between 1881 and 1914. In doing so…
It is an honor to be selected as a Visiting Student Researcher by the France Stanford Center and to carry out my research in technology and music at the Institute for Research and Coordination in…
One of the fundamental problems in the field of human/robot interactions (HRI) is the process of handing objects between a human and a robot. As when humans hand off an object from one person to…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of devices for rapid and sensitive detection of infectious diseases at the point of care (POC). A simplified, low-cost, and deployable assay for…
Neural networks have long fascinated scientific communities, serving as an elegant approach to machine learning modelled on our understanding of the human brain. Their increasing sophistication has…
Universal access to quality, life-saving drugs is a key challenge faced by low-income countries. In 2017, the World Health Organization estimated that about two billion people across the world still…