Awards & Prizes

Every year, IRISA sees its members rewarded with international prizes and awards.

Eight European Research Council Grant (ERC) Winners

logo ERC European Research Concil

The ERC encourages research of the highest quality in Europe through competitive funding and supports investigator-initiated frontier research in all disciplines on the basis of scientific excellence. Eight scientists have been supported for the quality of their research in our laboratory (from left to right on the picture):
 

2024: Nicolas Keriven, CNRS researcher, member of SIRROCO/COMPACT team
2022: Maud Marchal, professor INSA Rennes, member of the Rainbow team
2017: David Pichardie, professor ENS Rennes, ex-member of the CELTIQUE team
2016: Stéphanie Delaune, CNRS Research Director, member of the EMSEC team
2015: Christine Guillemot, Inria Research Director, member of the SIRROCO team
2013: Hervé Jegou, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the TEXMEX team (today LINKMEDIA)
2012: Rémi Gribonval, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the PANAMA team
2010: André Seznec, Inria Research Director, member of the PACAP team
2007: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the ASAP team

From left to right: Maud Marchal, David Pichardie, Stéphanie Delaune, Christine Guillemot, Hervé Jegou, Rémi Gribonval, André Seznec, Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Members of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF)

Many of our scientists have been selected to be members of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF).

2023: Angeliki Kritikakou , associate professor, Université de Rennes, member of the TARAN team
2023: Maud Marchal, professor, INSA Rennes, member of the RAINBOW team
2023: Pierre-Alain Fouque , professor, Université de Rennes, member of the CAPSULE team
2023: Jean-Marc Jézéquel , professor, Université de Rennes, member of the DIVERSE team
2022 : Walter Rudametkin, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the DIVERSE team
2021 : Mathieu Acher, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the DIVERSE team
2019 : Élisa Fromont, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the LACODAM team
2018 : Maud Marchal, professor INSA Rennes, member of the HYBRID team
2014 : Gildas Avoine, professor INSA Rennes, member of EMSEC team
2013 : Pierre-Alain Fouque, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of EMSEC team
2010 : Michel Raynal, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of WIDE team

portrait IUF members
Left to right: Walter Rudametkin, Mathieu Acher, Élisa Fromont, Maud Marchal, Gildas Avoine, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Michel Raynal,

Other prestigious national or international awards

Sandrine Blazy, professor at the Université de Rennes, was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2022
Claudio Pacchioretti, CNRS researcher, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2022
Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS researcher, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2020.
Paolo Robuffo Giordano, CNRS Research Director,  was awarded the Michel Montpetit Prize - Inria by the French Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Anatole Lecuyer, Inria Research Director,  received the IEEE VGTC award for technical achievements in virtual reality in 2019.
Jean-Marc Jezequel, professor Université de Rennes 1, was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016.

The impact of their scientific contributions is attested by numerous awards around the world (Test Of Time Award, Best paper Award, Most Influential POPL Award...), and by a thousand publications each year, most of them in conferences and journals with the strongest impact factors in the digital domain.

And some of our scientist are fellows from international learned societies such as ACM or IEEE

Find the awards and nominations of the last 2 years in the News