Project Type: Visiting Student Researcher Fellowships

Florian Condamine

A plasma is what can be called the fourth state of matter. Thisis an electrically conductive gas. As the other states of matter, plasmas are everywhere around us. For…

Chrysi Nanou

One of France’s most pre-eminent and influential composers of computer music, Jean-Claude Risset, has been a frequent visitor and collaborator with generations of Stanford…

Silvia de Toffoli

Visual representations of various kinds are ubiquitous in pure and applied mathematics, in the natural and social sciences, as well as in many other human activities. By…

Jonas Ogien

Current diagnosis of skin cancer mainly relies on biopsy (i.e., removing a portion of tissue); nearly 12 million biopsies are performed each year. In 60% of the cases,…

Roxane Letournel

In order to contain global warming, great effort is devoted to the development of renewable energies. In the PSAAP II project, the objective is to improve the efficiency of…

Dana Thomas

Geoscientists and engineers use mineral and glass dissolution rates to quantify waterrock interactions and make predictions about groundwater chemistry, energy systems and…

Magali Ferro

How can new technologies improve research in biology? Could we create electronic tools to facilitate in vitro toxicology assays? My project focused on the development of a…

Amina Annane

The volume of data in biomedicine is constantly increasing. A key aspect to address biomedical data integration and semantic interoperability is the use of terminologies and…

Alberto Comparini

My research focuses on the relationship between literature and philosophy. Specifically, my work investigates the relationship between phenomenology, existentialism and…

Lisa Bolz

The electric telegraph was one of the most innovative technologies that shaped press and journalism in the 19th century. It enabled a faster communication of messages, even…

Sébastien Brisbois

This project assisted in the transcription of medieval hand-written documents. Optical Characters Recognition (OCR) techniques are now widely spread and reliable…

Edward Barnet

My work examines homo musicus, or the musical conception of the human being that informed how physicians and natural philosophers in 17th and 18th century Europe understood…

Helma Korzybska

Perceptual experience is a neglected question in the rapidly expanding field of brainmachine interface technology. This project proceeds from the assumption that the theory…

Max Viskanic

In this project I seek to further analyze the impact of immigration and the recent refugee crisis on voting behavior, public spending and general economic well-being in…

Sophie Cetre

My project aims at studying how work is allocated among members of Parliament (MPs) in France. Who discuss and make economic and fiscal policies among MPs? Economics is a…

Extending the lifetime and capabilities of satellites and spacecraft has significant impact to the society. Reliable and efficient space propulsion systems are therefore the key for the aerospace…
This project focuses on the role of experts witnesses in international arbitration cases administered under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)—the world’s preeminent…
California’s mining and industrial history have led to an excessive build-up of mercury in the Bay Area. As one of the top ten pollutants of the world, this toxic heavy metal has troubling…
I intend to fill the lack of systematic studies concerning the similar trajectories, both literary and biographic, of the Italian author Curzio Malaparte and the French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline…
Unlike the surface currents that have been extensively studied thanks to satellite observations, the oceanic deep circulation is poorly known. I n the tropics, observational cruises have revealed the…
Plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter and is by far the most abundant one in the universe. It is ionized gas and has several applications including space travel and more precisely…
B and T cell lymphomas are common cancers of the immune system. Although diverse, theses cancers characteristically harbor mutations and genomic aberrations that are solely found in malignant cells…
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This study is relating to the treatment of bank failure in a comparative perspective. As banking institutions manage their business globally, the treatment of their failure may not be ended in one…
As one of the category of World Heritage, as the intervention between human and nature, cultural landscape has complicated geography and cultural background; under the influence of the socio-economic…