AMPERE
CITI
BF2I
CETHIL
RMND
EVS (ITUS)
CREATIS
LGCIE
MATEIS LGEF
ICBMS
INL LIEPSLVA
LMFA
LIRIS
IMP
ICJ MAP
LAMCOS
20
INSA LYON’S
laboratoRIES
CBS pole
CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY-HEALTH
BF2I
ICBMS
MAP
RMND
Laboratory Director: Yvan RAHBE
BF2I
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 79 16 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 34
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Louis Pasteur
11 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Functional Biology, Insects and Interactions
UMR 203
[email protected] - http://bf2i.insa-lyon.fr
Research body:
INRA (French National Institute
for Agricultural Research)
Vocation
• Others:
The BF2I is a mixed INSA Lyon and INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural
Research) research unit (INRA UMR 203) which is part of the Plant Health and Environment department.
The unit’s scientific remit is to understand the functions which govern interactions
between certain groups of insects of agronomic importance, and their direct biological
partners (host plants, symbiotic micro-organisms, parasites or predators). This research
covers a variety of disciplinary fields ranging from insect physiology to their functional
genomics.
The unit’s studies focus on trophic functions, notably those which govern symbiotic
exchanges, but also defense or molecular dialogue functions between partners in the
interaction. The end objective of this research into complex biological interactions, which
often involve multiple partners and interactions with the environment, is to produce the
tools and concepts required for an integrated approach to plant protection against pests
within the framework of sustainable agronomic practices which are respectful of human
health and agroecosystems.
Auxiliary organisms, resistance genes, the biochemical or molecular basis of the interaction, and the control or analysis methods developed by the research teams which make up
the unit are just some of the results which can be valorised.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Mode of action and cellular targets of peptide and non-peptide
entomotoxins (entomotox team).
• Symbiosis and functional genomics of trophic interactions in
aphids (SymTrophique team).
- Cell culture rooms, radioactivity rooms, clean rooms for dissection
and the production of biological media.
- Support centres for molecular biology (PCR, nucleic acid electrophoresis etc.), biochemistry (chromatography, protein electrophoresis etc.) and biology (rearing, bioassays and dissection of
aphids, weevils and trichogramma wasps etc.).
- Insectariums, rearing or experimental regulated incubators (temperature or temperature and hygrometry), culture cells (PlantInsect).
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Characterisation of a regulated immune response in the insect
bacteriocyte. Identification of multiple immune response inhibitors and alternative splicing of the PGRP gene, including a form
specific to bacteriocyte cells (Anselme et al. AEM 2006 72: 6766).
• Characterisation of the evolutionary history and mode of action of
a small leguminous peptide toxin (albumine A1b) which targets
the intestinal cells of numerous insect species in which this toxin
is internalised. (Rahioui et al., Biochimie 2007 89: 1539).
• Characterisation of the expression of the entire reduced genome
of the aphid symbiont (Buchnera), the characteristics of its regulatory response under various trophic stresses and the organisation of its transcriptome on different spatial scales (Vinuelas et
al., BMC Genomics 2007 8: 143).
• Symbiosis and molecular and immune signalling in insects (symsimm team).
• Biodiversity and auxiliary nutrition for biological pest control (luttebio team).
• Bioinformatic analysis of the transcriptome, and metabolic and
gene interaction networks (multi- and cross-disciplinary subject).
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Journal of Insect Physiology
• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Bioinformatics
• Equipment:
HPLC chain with automatic sampler, diode array detector (Agilent),
radioactivity meters (Betaflux), centrifuges and ultracentrifuges,
lyophilizers, nanodrop, cuvette or plate spectrophotometers, microbalances.
• Unit platforms:
Insect-proof greenhouse, microscopy platform
(optical fluoresence, Olympus Cell-F imaging),
amino acid analysis platform (post-column
derivation FMOC/PITC, radiochromatography),
bioinformatics analysis platform.
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 220 kE
2-4
2-4
Teacher-Researchers: 6
6
Permanent Researchers: 6
Administrative staff: 2
2-3
6
Technical staff: 12
Masters students: 2-3
PhD students: 2-4
12
2
Post-doctoral students 2-4
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Alain DOUTHEAU
ICBMS
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 21 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 88 96
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Jules Verne
17 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry
UMR 5246
[email protected] - http://www.icbms.fr
Partner establishments:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CPE
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
ACHIEVEMENTS
The ICBMS (Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry) is
part of two CNRS departments: the CHEMISTRY department and the SCIENCE OF LIVING
ORGANISMS department.
• Strong partnerships with industry (over 35 business partners
involved in our most recent or ongoing projects) in the fields
of chemistry, pharmacy, agrochemistry and biotechnology.
On average 8 patent applications filed each year.
Created out of the merger on 1st January 2007 of the Biochemistry unit “Enzymes, Biological and Biomimetic Membranes» and the Chemistry unit «Synthesis Methodologies and
Bioactive Molecules», the institute focuses on innovation in the field of synthesis methodology in order to develop new molecular architectures, identify new bioactive molecules,
and understand their mode of action.
Its work covers three main themes:
• synthesis, methodology and catalysis,
• biomolecules: synthesis, properties and assemblies,
• biological and biomimetic membranes, biocatalysis.
The scientific fields covered include the dynamics of living organisms, the chemistry of
living organisms, synthetic chemistry, biotechnologies and nanosciences.
ICBMS’s scientific work is based on strong partnerships with industry and numerous
international collaborations (visiting overseas researchers, piloting or participating in
European projects, other partnerships: USA, Canada, Australia, China, Japan, Israel,
Madagascar, Vietnam).
• Professor Marc Lemaire was awarded the 2007 Le Bel Prize by
the French Chemistry Society (jointly with Bernard Meunier).
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Tetrahedron Letters
• Chemistry: A European journal
• European Journal of Organic Chemistry
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• Langmuir
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget for 2008: 2.7me
Consolidated budget including permanent salaries: 9.1me
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• The synthesis strategy of complex functional structures and new
catalytic processes (enantioselectivity, biocatalysis).
2009
• Clean chemistry issues: new reaction media, efficiency strategies,
renewable resources.
• Molecules in living organisms: carbohydrates, peptides, nucleic
acids, lipids.
13
• The development of new tools and specific detection methods for
diagnosis (biosensors, biochips, microfluidic systems).
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Equipment: Instrumented reactors, infrared and UV-visible
spectrometers, polarimeter, lyophilizer, ultracentrifuge
• Platforms: Chemical library, Langmuir balance, mass spectrometry
Permanent Researchers: 19
Administrative staff: 11
51
19
• Studying and assessing the biological properties of complex molecular assemblies.
• Studying the organisation and dynamics of biological membranes.
Teacher-Researchers: 39
39
Technical staff: 13
Masters students: 23
23
13
11
PhD students: 51
Post-doctoral students: 13
Laboratory Director: Nicole COTTE-PATTAT
MAP
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 15 53 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 15 84
Campus LyonTech la Doua - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Bat. André Lwoff
10 rue Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Microbiology, Adaptation & Pathogenesis
UMR 5240
[email protected] - http://map.univ-lyon1.fr/
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Corporate partner:
Bayer CropScience
Vocation
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
The aim of this unit is to understand the adaptation processes of micro-organisms from
the molecular level through to integration into the cellular context of interactions with the
environment and other organisms.
• Equipment:
Equipment for microbiology and molecular biology
The adaptation phenomenon involves mechanisms which make it possible to optimise the
use of the surrounding environment for microbial development and the micro-organisms’
resistance to hostile conditions in this environment. Pathogenesis is considered to be
a specific example of adaptation in a living organism (plants, amoeba, insects, human
beings). A variety of micro-organisms are used as study models: bacteria, yeast and funghi.
• Platforms:
1- Extraction of Biomolecules
2- Proteomics
• Others:
P2 Containment laboratory
The parameters considered are biochemical or physical-chemical (signal molecules,
stress, metals, contact with surfaces etc.) and, in the case of pathogenic micro-organisms, all conditions affecting interaction with the biological partner.
ACHIEVEMENTS
The technology developed involves genetics, molecular biology, and comprehensive
genomic or proteomic approaches which go so far as to include mathematical modelling.
These studies aim to integrate the different stages of adaptive response: signal perception, transmission, gene expression regulation and cellular metabolic adjustment.
• Revelation that a plant pathogen can also be an insect pathogen,
identification of a new compartmentalization pathway for proteins and modelling of a regulation network for the early stages
of bacterial infection.
• Understanding a nickel/cobalt membrane efflux system.
• Confirmation of a surface sensing model between bacteria and
the colonised surface.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Virulence factors of plant pathogenic bacteria.
• The architecture and dynamics of gene regulation networks.
• Bacteria and metals: metabolism, homeostasis and resistance.
• Biofilms, microbial contamination of materials.
• Mechanisms of virulence and multidrug resistance in legionella.
• Molecular genetics of yeasts.
• Functional genomics of plant pathogenic funghi.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Molecular Microbiology
• Journal of Bacteriology
• Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
• Plant Physiology
• FEMS Yeast Research
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 750ke
Teacher-Researchers: 21
4
10
Permanent Researchers 10
21
Administrative staff: 3
Technical staff: 19
8
Masters students: 8
PhD students: 10
19
Photograph using transmission electronic microscopy of mutant tolB cells
in the plant pathogen Erwinia chrysanthemi.
3
10
Post-doctoral students: 4
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Michel LAGARDE
RMND
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 40 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 24
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Louis Pasteur
11 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Metabolic Regulation, Nutrition and Diabetes
[email protected] - http://ifr62.univ-lyon1.fr/laboratoires.php?id=45
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
INSERM, INRA
Additional partner:
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Vocation
Nutrition-related pathologies (type 2 diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome) are
increasingly common and are considered to be a major public health issue. A certain
number of researchers working on this field in Lyon have grouped together to create a
clear structure with a sufficient critical mass and a research dynamic which combines
cognitive and applied research with clinical research.
This has resulted in the creation of the RMND (Metabolic Regulation, Nutrition and
Diabetes) UMR (Mixed Research Unit), with 80 people divided into two complementary
teams of comparable size who work in close collaboration.
This UMR is equipped with two methodological and experimental platforms: The CRNH-RA
(Centre for Research into Human Nutrition - Rhône Alpes) and the IMBL (Multi-Disciplinary
Institute of Lipid Biochemistry) situated on the INSA Lyon campus. The IMBL is part of the
UMR 870 and one of the three components which make up LISA (Lipids for Industry and
Health) which received the Carnot Institute label in 2007.
The key scientific objectives are:
- to understand the mechanisms of insulin resistance and diabetes
- to define the role of lipids and lipoproteins in the vascular complications of diabetes
- to propose nutrients, in particular lipid nutrients, which can prevent and/or treat these
complications (bioengineering).
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Characterisation in vivo in humans of the bimodal effect (antioxidant and pro-oxidant) of a marine fatty acid (omega 3) (Atherosclerosis, Brit J Nutr, Faseb J.).
• Perfection of a lipid fatty acid vector with neurobiological potential
(PCT patent application underway); biological effects and metabolism (multi-partner research agency “Neuroprotect”).
• Demonstration of the role of oxidant stress in mitochondrial anomalies involved in the development of insulin-resistance and type
2 diabetes (J. Clin. Invest. 2008)
AREAS OF RESEARCH
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• The action mechanism of insulin and the molecular causes of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes.
• Diabetes
• Free Radic. Biol. Med.
• J. Biol. Chem.
• J. Clin. Invest.
• J. Lipid Res.
• Lipid signalling and the metabolism of lipids and lipoproteins in the
context of vascular complications of diabetes.
• The process of adaptation to changes in the nutritional environment in situations of overnutrition or undernutrition.
• Role and metabolism of adipose tissue and skeletal muscle in
insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
• Protection of pancreatic ß cell functions in diabetes patients.
• Health impact (oxidant stress, vascular complications and inflammation) for fatty acids of nutritional interest and their dietary intake
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 1.2ke
Teacher-Researchers: 17
8
11
17
Permanent Researchers 15
Administrative staff: 3
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Equipment: Animal house
6
15
• Platforms:
RIO lipidomics Platform (physico-chemical analyses)
Genomics technical support centre (DNA chips)
Technical staff: 18
Masters students: 6
PhD students: 11
18
3
Post-doctoral students: 8
EEUD POLE
ENVIRONMENT – ENERGY
SUSTAINABLE URBANISATION
AMPERE
CETHIL
EVS (ITUS)
LGCIE
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Bruno ALLARD
AMPERE
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 38 / 81 98 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 30
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiments Saint Exupéry et Léonard de Vinci
25 et 21 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Electrical Engineering, Electromagnetism, Automatic Control, Environmental Microbiology and Applications
UMR 5005
[email protected] -http://www.ampere-lab.fr/
Partner establishments:
Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
The general focus of the laboratory’s research is the rational management and use of
energy in systems in relation to their environment.
Chopping voltage converter
for communicating systems-on-chip
The research carried out at Ampère covers a wide scope:
• fields ranging from Automatic Control to Electrical Engineering, via Electromagnetism
and Environmental Microbiology,
• devices ranging from integrated power modules to energy systems,
• phenomena studied with frequencies ranging from static to high frequency (GHz),
Electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic test benches
• sectors of application ranging from transport to energy systems, via environmental
applications and bioengineering.
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Voltage inverter at 300°C: Three-phase voltage inverter capable
of operating in high temperature conditions (aeronautics, rail,
automotive).
• BirthSIM: Birth simulator for the safe acquisition of obstetrical
skills.
• Fractal model of sliding discharge: Existence of a close relationship between the fractal dimension and the geometric and
physical properties of the interface components.
High ambient temperature chamber for system
characterisation (300°C / 600°C)
Silicon carbide component and passive component
associated for high temperatures.
• Numerical dosimetry at low and medium frequencies: Evaluation by calculation of electromagnetic quantities (currents, fields,
energy etc.) induced in the human body.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Silicon carbide power integration
• IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
• Applied Environmental Microbiology
• Mechatronics and embedded systems
• Energy management
• Pressurised fluid systems and medical robotics
• Generic modelling methods and tools
• Materials in electrical systems
• Electromagnetism and living organisms
• Microbiology and the environment
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 7,400Ke
60 RICL
100 CICL
2 patents
• Benches for the characterisation of power modules
Teacher-Researchers: 50
13
50
• Fluid Power test centre
• 45 kW diagnostic platform for electrical systems
Permanent Researchers: 9
Administrative staff: 7
70
Technical staff: 10
• Centre for the characterisation and reliability of passive components
Masters students: 25
• Electromagnetic compatibility test centre
• High voltage test centre
• Environmental microbiology platform
25
10
7
9
PhD students: 70
Post-doctoral students: 13
Laboratory Director: Dany ESCUDIÉ
CETHIL
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 88 10 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 88 11
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Sadi Carnot
9 rue de la Physique, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Lyon Centre of Thermal Science
UMR 5008
[email protected] - http://cethil.insa-lyon.fr/
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Visualisation of boiling on a heated wall (simulating
an engine cylinder head) in the presence of imposed
shear flow.
The deformation of bubbles or their separation into
smaller bubbles creates flows whith thermal characteristics that are still to be determined.
Vocation
The research carried out by the laboratory covers a variety of thermics and energetics fields.
It is one of the only laboratories in France, and indeed in the world, capable of continuously
treating a wide range of length and temperature scales from nanostructures to buildings, and
from ice slurry to combustion. Numerous sectors of application such as industry, transport,
construction and electronics require extensive scientific knowledge of thermics. The CETHIL
therefore tries to find a balance between its experimental, theoretical and numerical activities
in order to:
OFFICIAL PARTNERSHIPS - DISTINCTIONS
• In 2005 a joint CETHIL - EDF R and D laboratory was inaugurated. This laboratory combines
the partners’ efforts in the field of “High Energy Efficiency Buildings”.
• 2007, appointment of a CETIAT-CNRS Associate Research Director, Ahmed Bensafi.
• In 2005, the work of Séverine Gomès (CNRS Researcher working at CETHIL) in the field of
thermal local probe microscopy was awarded a bronze medal by the CNRS.
• In 2007, Isil Ayranci, PhD student, was awarded the Young Scientists’ Award in Radiative
Transfer by the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (Elsevier).
• In 2007, Frédéric André, CNRS Researcher, was awarded an honorable mention to the
Young Scientists’ Award in Radiative Transfer by the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy
and Radiative Transfer.
• In 2007, the Lewis. F. Moody Award 2008 was awarded to M’hamed Boutaous, Associate
Professor, for his conference paper entitled: “Heat Transfer and Air Diffusion Phenomena in a Bed of Polymer Powder Using Apparent Heat Capacity Method: Application to the
Rotational Molding Process”. This prize for the most outstanding original papers dealing
with the practice of fluids engineering was shared with E. Perrot, A. Maazouz, P. Bourgin et
P. Chantrenne, for their work on heat transfers in polymer powders.
• In 2008, Rémi Revellin, Associate Professor, was awarded the 2008 EUROTHERM Young
Scientist prize which is given in recognition of the excellence of a thesis presented in Europe
in the field of thermal sciences.
• In 2008, Best Paper Award for 2008, the prize for the best article published in the journal
« Building Simulation » was awarded to Monika Woloszyn, Associate Professor , for her
work entitled “Tools for performance simulation of heat, air and moisture conditions of
whole buildings” carried out within the framework of an International Energy Agency
project, co-coordinated by the CETHIL.
• In 2009, Patrick Dupeyrat, PhD student under joint supervision with the Fraunhofer ISE
(Institut für Solare Energie Systeme) in Freiburg, received the prize for the Best Poster at
the 18th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference in Calcutta (India)
which is one of the three largest international conferences on photovoltaics.
• understand thermal exchanges: convection, conduction, radiation, phase change
• control thermal exchanges to ensure effective use: Cold production, cooling of electronic
components, engine combustion, superinsulating materials, thermal control of photovoltaic
cells, high energy efficiency buildings etc.
• characterise the thermal behaviour of materials using inverse methods, AFM, innovative
optical diagnostics etc. ,
• predict heat transfers, by developing Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), Large Eddy
Simulation (LES), Molecular Dynamics.
Visualisation of flow resulting
from the impact of a blast of
cold air on a heated surface.
The periodic detachment
of vortices affects heat
exchanges in the wall.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Micro and Nanothermics
• Transfers with Phase Change and in Systems
• Thermo-Physical and Radiative Properties
• Transfers in Fluids
• Solar System Energetics
• Thermics and Aeraulics in Construction
• International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
• International Journal of Thermal Sciences
• Building and Environment
• International Journal of Refrigeration
• Combustion and Flame
KEY FIGURES
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Numerous resources in optical metrology for thermics: PIV, LIF,
tunable laser and spectrometer, rapid and IR imaging, confocal
microscope, sunlight simulator, flameless combustion burner etc.
• Thermal atomic force microscope with local probe: to measure
temperature fields on the submicronic scale
• MINIBAT cell: Full-scale test cell to analyse the diffusion of air and
humidity in residential premises under controlled external thermal
conditions.
Consolidated annual budget 2009: 5me
Teacher-Researchers: 34
CNRS Researchers: 7
6
3
5
Administrative staff: 5.5
34
Technical staff: 10
Masters students: 12
36
PhD students: 36
Post-doctoral students: 6
12
10
5,5
7
Teacher-Researchers on temporary contracts: 3
Temporary staff: 5
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Jean-Yves TOUSSAINT
EVS (ITUS)
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 84 71 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 87 96
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Eugène Freyssinet
8 rue des Sports, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Environment City Society
UMR 5600
Partner establishments:
University Jean-Moulin Lyon 3,
École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État,
École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines,
University Lumière Lyon 2,
University Jean-Monnet Saint-Étienne
Research body:
CNRS
[email protected] - http://edu-evs.insa-lyon.fr/
The INSA unit ITUS (Engineering, Techniques, Urbanisation and Society)
was born out of the merger of two teams within INSA specialised in
humanities and social sciences: ”Environments & Urban systems” and
“STOICA”.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, ITUS aims to tackle technical
issues based on the hypothesis that anthropogenic activity, because it
makes the existence of technical objects possible, defines man’s relationship with the world. The team’s research therefore aims to question
anthropogenic activity by studying how technical objects are produced
and the rationalities at work, and in doing so, to question the concept
of technique resulting from the modalities of existence of technical
objects and their integration into a social and technical environment. As
one form of anthropogenic activity, urban planning is one of the main fields
of research.
Our researchers work on three key themes:
• “Engineering” looking at the technical as an anthropogenic mode of
action;
• “Urban spatial and technical systems” concerning the use of objects
in social and urban activities;
• “Technology” based on the possibility of a science of technique which
questions the modes of rationality involved in athropogenic action and
by the same token, the status of the technical object.
Vocation
UMR 5600 “Environment City Society” is a laboratory which studies the means by which highly urbanised modern societies constitute and institute their environments (planning and sometimes layout
of a given environment, adapted to anthropogenic activities). Its research focuses on water, nature in
cities, risks, the city, the technical and espistemology.
UMR 5600 includes three technical platforms: One specialised in the observation and measurement
of current and ancient environments (OMEAA), a second specialised in imaging and geographic information systems (ISIG) and a third specialised in surveys, documentation, valorisation and monitoring
scientific development (ED2VS).
With a staff of 78 teacher-researchers, engineers and technicians, there are also over 100 PhD students supervised within the laboratory.
At the CNRS, UMR 5600 is attached to the InEE (the Institute of Ecology and Environment) and has
strong links with the InSHS (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences). Its researchers work either in CNRS section 39 “Spaces, Territories and Societies” or 31 “Man and Environments: Evolution,
Interactions” and the teacher-researchers in sections 23 “Physical, Human, Economic and Regional
Geography” and 24 “Space and Urban Planning” of the National Council of Universities.
- Multi-establishment, it federates the laboratories of six establishments around the CNRS: three
universities (Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lumière Lyon 2, Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne) and three grandes
écoles (École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État, École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences
Humaines, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon).
- Multi-disciplinary, it brings together geographers, developers, urban planners, sociologists, philosophers, historians, political scientists, archeologists and economists.
The spatial and technical systems which
make up the street in an urban environment (source: JY. Toussaint, 2003 cours
Gambetta, carrefour rue André Philip, Lyon)
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Platforms:
- Observation and Measurement of Current and Ancient Environments
- Imaging and Geographical Information Systems
- Survey, Documentation, Valorisation, monitoring scientific development
ACHIEVEMENTS
• CNRS Silver Medal (Jean-Paul Bravard, 2004)
• CNRS Bronze Medal (Hervé Piégay, 1998) for the INSA conference:
“Les controverses Technologiques de l’INSA” (Lyon, 8th November 2007)
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
Les Annales de la recherche urbaine
Computers and Geosciences
Espaces et Société
Environnement Risque Société
Water Resources Research
KEY FIGURES
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Themes:
• nature and society: the constitution of environments;
• actions, regulations and organisations: the construction of environments;
• techniques and user-friendliness: the production of environments.
Approaches:
• epistemology and heuristics;
• space, time and systems;
• techniques and engineering.
Scientific input:
• territory and environmental sciences;
• engineering and urban sciences;
• human and social sciences.
Average annual consolidated budget (2008):
4,103,565 e
1
59
Teacher-Researchers: 59
Researchers: 6
102
Engineers, Technicians and Administrative Staff: 13
PhD students: 102
13
6
Post-doctoral students: 1
Laboratory Director: Bernard CHOCAT
LGCIE
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 81 89 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 21
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment JCA Coulomb
34 av. des Arts, 69 621 Villeurbanne Cedex - France
Laboratory of Civil and Environmental Engineering
EA 4126
[email protected] - http://lgcie.insa-lyon.fr/
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Vocation
The aim of the LGCIE is to combine research in Civil Engineering with research in
Chemistry and Process Engineering to improve how environmental issues are taken into
account in urban planning and the management of the built environment.
LGCIE aims to develop research within the framework of environmental engineering
i.e. resulting from the environmental issues raised by society and which aims to provide
concrete, rapidly operational solutions.
Its activity mainly involves the design and management of civil engineering structures
on the one hand, and on the other, the control of severe or chronic environmental risks
(the effects of pollutants), in particular in water and soil environments. The fields studied
include:
• natural random variables and the impact of anthropogenic activity ( ground movements,
climatic extremes, pollution),
• vulnerabilities (civil engineering structures, soils and hydrosystems),
• the development of curative and preventive actions in environments (remediation,
alternative management and development solutions), materials (valorisation), structures
(design and construction of less vulnerable structures, rehabilitation, repair) and systems
(discharge and discharge environment treatment processes, matter/energy management
processes, environmental analysis, coupling and interactions under complex loading).
ACHIEVEMENTS
• C reation and organisation every three years in Lyon of the
NOVATECH conference (international conference on technologies
and sustainable strategies for the managment of urban stormwater).
• Framework agreement with Suez Environnement setting out a
priviliged partnership between the LGCIE and the group’s companies, in particular in the field of urban water and waste management.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Urban and industrial pollutants emissions and transfers
• Water Sciences and Technology
• Journal of Hazardous Material
• Cement and Concrete Research
• Journal of Earthquake Engineering
• Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
• Coupling and interactions between geomaterials and infrastructures
• Performance engineering of multi-materials and structures
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Mechanical test bench
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 1.8me
Consolidated budget: 5me
• Chemical analysis laboratory
• EEDEMS platform
• OTHU (Urban Hydrology Field Observatory)
• Shared Platform CSDU (Ultimate Waste Storage Centre)
50
46
Teacher-Researchers: 46
Administrative staff: 5
Technical staff: 19
Masters students: 34
34
19
5
PhD students: 50
MATERIALS
POLE
IMP
MATEIS
Laboratory Director: Jean-François GERARD
IMP
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 60 04 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 27
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Jules Verne
21 av. Jean Capelle, 69 621 Villeurbanne Cedex - France
Polymer Materials Engineering
UMR 5223
[email protected] - http://www.imp.cnrs.fr
Partner establishments:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
University of Saint-Etienne
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
The IMP Laboratory aims to develop and combine knowledge and skills from the fields
of Chemistry, Physics, Processes and more broadly speaking Polymer and Materials
Science, in order to develop innovative multi- and cross-disciplinary approaches for both
fundamental research and projects carried out in collaboration with businesses.
By applying original and diverse methods and concepts, as well as experimental and theoretical aspects, a comprehensive research approach has been developed for the field of
chemistry and the formulation of synthetic and natural polymers, the rheology of polymers in relation to their structure and processing and moulding processes (including by
integrating simulation approaches), the study of the physical behaviour of structural and
functional polymer materials, and research carried out at the interface with life sciences.
This unique framework makes it possible to develop cross-disciplinary projects involving a variety of fields: Chemistry and the Formulation of Biosourced Polymers (Green
Chemistry and Chemistry for Sustainable Development), Polymer & Process
Chemistry, Functional and Polymer Chemistry, Processing & Characterisation of
Organic/Organic and Organic/Inorganic Nanomaterials & Organised systems,
Materials and Process Coupling – Defectology, Mobilities-Interactions & Functions,
Polymer Surfaces and Coatings, Decoy Materials in Biological Environments, Polymers
for Infectology Imaging (Bioengineering).
A member of numerous research networks of French and international academic laboratories, and closely linked to businesses within the framework of a number of collaborative
projects (ANR (French National Research Agency), Competitiveness Clusters etc.) the
research unit pursues innovation through excellence. It also plays a role in training its
younger researchers through research by involving them in industrial programmes and
international scientific networks (IMP holds the vice-presidency of the European Center
for Nanostructured Polymers). Furthermore the IMP makes up a significant part of the
ICL (Lyon Chemistry Institute) Polymers Department.
The laboratory has three research sites on the campuses of INSA Lyon, University Claude
Bernard Lyon 1 and the University Jean Monnet St Etienne, as well as the Joliot Curie
project centre at ENS Lyon for the Chemistry interface of Polymers-Physics-Biology and
the INSA Lyon Plastics Conversion site at Oyonnax.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• The chemistry of synthetic and natural polymers
• The structure & rheology of polymers – Processes & simulation
• The physical properties of polymers – functional polymers Mechanics, Behaviour, Electric & Dielectric materials, Optics,
Surfaces and Interfaces, Membranes-Transport
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Implementation of pilot-reactors for the synthesis and formulation of polymers (condensation polymers: polyesters, polyamides)
in collaboration with the companies TERGAL, ARKEMA and RHODIA with support from OSEAO-ANVAR and the ANR – Conception
polymers synthetised from biomass monomers.
• Setting up of a research and development platform for paints and
coatings on the INSA site at Oyonnax (Project Coating Xpert with
support from the Rhône-Alpes region and a consortium of industrial companies).
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Macromolecules
• Journal Polymer Science (Part A & B)
• Polymer
• J. Colloids and Interface Science
• Biomacromolecules
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: > 3.5me
20
Teacher-Researchers: 43
43
Permanent Researchers 11
• Polymers at the interface with life sciences - Bioengineering
11
90
7
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
Equipment platforms:
• Synthesis and Formulation of Polymers (ICL Platform)
• Processing and Moulding Processes
• Physical Characterisation of Polymers and Multimaterials
• Modelling and Simulation
17
30
Administrative staff: 7
Technical staff: 17
Masters students: Approx. 30
PhD students: 90
Post-doctoral students: Approx. 20
Laboratory Director: Joël COURBON
MATEIS
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 99 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 28
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Blaise Pascal
7 av. Jean Capelle, 69 621 Villeurbanne Cedex - France
Materials: Engineering and Science
UMR 5510
[email protected] - http://mateis.insa-lyon.fr/
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
An example of the observation of core-shell gold-silica nano-particles
suspended in water using an ESEM (core 5mm in diameter, highly shiny due
to the high atomic number of gold). The use of a thin object and the configuration of the optical system makes it possible to attain high resolutions.
Furthermore, the transmission mode provides volume information.
Finally the efficiency of the electron/matter interaction (related to the low acceleration voltage that is characteristic of SEM) and effectiveness in detecting
(related to the large collection angles of low voltage STEM in annular dark
field mode) electrons diffused through a thin liquid film which results in high
contrasts and thicknesses traversed which can reach several µm.
MATEIS studies four classes of materials: Metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, for
structural and possibly functional applications. It optimises performance (mechanical
resistance, corrosion etc.) of existing materials or tries to create new materials with the
aim of downweighting structures and within the context of sustainable development.
Advances in our understanding of materials require improved understanding of:
- the relationships between processing parameters and microstructure (defects on the
atomic or molecular scale, crystalline and amorphous phase arrangement, defects
related to processing: Microcavities, decohesion etc.);
References:
A. Bogner et al., Ultramicroscopy 104 (2005) 290-301
A. Bogner et al., Micron 38 (2007) 290-401
M. do Amaral et al., Macromolecular Rapid Com. 26 (2005) 365-368
A. Bogner et al., Journal of Colloid and Polymer Science
(2008, on line first)
- the relationships between microstructure and macroscopic behaviour measured using
diverse techniques (mechanical, electrochemical, calorimetric, dielectric, acoustic etc.);
- the evolution of these microstructures in use (phase transitions, corrosion, damage etc.).
These studies are notably based on quantitative characterisations on a very small scale
(nano or micrometric) or which makes it possible to carry out in situ testing and use nondestructive testing techniques.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Processing of ceramics and polymers
• Quantitative microstructural characterisation
• Relationships between microstructures / properties
• Degradation of materials under mechanical and/or environmental
loads
• Durability and non-destructive testing
• Materials for biomedical applications
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Processing from powders using Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)
• S tructural characterisation: Electronic microscopy (CLYM
platform), X-ray (diffraction diffusion, tomography), acoustic
emission
•S
pecific mechanical tests (mechanical spectrometry, Gleeble
machine)
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Development, in liaison with ESRF Grenoble,
the Risoe National Laboratory (Denmark) and
the University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
of a mode of contrast imaging using Bragg,
which can visualise the three-dimensional form
and crystal orientation of grains at the heart of
polycrystals.
• MATEIS is home to the second Spark Plasma
Sintering (SPS) system in France after the
installation in Toulouse, operational since mid-2007. This enables
us to produce large parts (80 mm diameter, 100 mm height)
significantly more quickly than by using traditional sintering
techniques. We are currently perfecting the production of transparent nanostructured ceramics.
• Wet-STEM imaging mode on an Environmental Scanning Electron
Microscope (ESEM). This makes it possible to observe nanoobjects suspended in a liquid matrix and produces mass-thickness type contrasts.
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 2me
14
3D reconstruction of an aluminium polycrystal: The different colours represent the
grain mapping.
Source: collaboration ESRF, Univ. Manchester, Risö nat. Lab. Article :
X-ray diffraction contrast tomography: a novel technique for three-dimensional
grain mapping of polycrystals. II.
The combined case. Greg Johnson, Andrew King, Marcelo Goncalves Honnicke,
J. Marrow and Wolfgang Ludwig, J. Appl. Cryst. (2008) 41, 310–318.
Teacher-Researchers: 45
45
Permanent Researchers 6
Administrative staff: 8
59
Technical staff: 16
Masters students: 11
11
16
8
6
PhD students: 59
Post-doctoral students: 14
MECHANICS
POLE
LAMCOS
LMFA
LVA
Laboratory Director: Alain COMBESCURE
LAMCOS
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 64 26 - Fax : +33 (0)4 78 89 09 80
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Jean d’Alembert (1er étage)
18/20 rue des Sciences, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Contacts and Structural Mechanics Laboratory
UMR 5259
[email protected] - http://lamcos.insa-lyon.fr
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
The laboratory’s scientific objective is to carry out research into the control and testing of the behaviour of systems and mechanical structures, taking into account their
interfaces. Extreme loading has been a key development in the context of this research.
The operating regimes studied are both static and dynamic and the approach is based
on the development of numerical models and specific experimental resources to help
understand and control:
Confrontation of particle numerical calculation
methods and tribology
- the processes governing the damage, friction and wear of mechanical components and
their interfaces under severe and complex loading.
Simulation of the impact between
a bird and an aircraft turbine blade
- the dynamic performance of mechanical components and systems.
- the testing of dynamic responses in complex mechanical systems.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Caculation codes (ROTORINSA; ELFE3D (XFEM); GEAR; LMGC 90)
CONFERENCES ORGANISED BY THE LABORATORY
Calculation-test confrontation
on the behaviour of helicopter gears
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Predicting and testing the dynamic behaviour of rotating machines,
structures and systems.
• Forming and integrity of structures under extreme loading, to
provide industrial companies with tools capable of simulating a
component or system’s service life from production to destruction.
• Functional analysis of non-lubricated and lubricated contacts and
the analysis of behavioural interactions between contacts and
mechanical systems.
• Response of bodies in contact and their interfaces to tribological
loading.
• Contact and impact biomechanics
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
Equipment:
• Multifonction rotor bench
• Forming limit curve measuring device
• Rolling mill
• PEDEBA Simulator
• Scanning Electron Microscope Electronique
• Dilatometry under high temperatures and stress
• 3D image correlation system
• Hopkinson bars to measure the behaviour of materials
and transient dynamic failure.
• Stamping simulation modules for metals and composite fibres
• Instrumented gear test bench
• ESAFORM 2008
• Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology held in Lyon every other
year for the last 30 years.
• Journée Dynamique des Machines tournantes 2007
• Journées transmissions mécaniques 2007
• IUTAM Seminar on Modelisation of moving discontinuities
(September 2006)
DISTINCTIONS
• Alain Combescure was elected Fellow of the IACM (International
Association of Computational Mechanics) 2008
• Benyebka Bou-Saïd was elected Fellow of the ASME (American
Society for Mechanical Engineering) 2008
• Julien Réthoré received the AUM and CSMA 2006 thesis prize
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering
• International Journal of Solids and Structures
• ASME Journals
• IMechE Journals
• Wear
• Journal of Sound and Vibration
KEY FIGURES
Annual budget excluding salaries: 1.9m e
5
5
Teacher-Researchers: 47
Permanent Researchers 7
47
Administrative staff: 5
Technical staff: 16
70
7
Masters students: 25
PhD students: 70
25
16
5
Post-doctoral students: 5
Engineers under contract: 5
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Jean-Yves CHAMPAGNE
LMFA
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 64 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 87 18
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Joseph Jacquard
27, av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics Laboratory
UMR 5509
[email protected] - http://www.lmfa.ec-lyon.fr/
Partner establishments:
Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
University Claude-Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
The LMFA’s scientific activity covers a wide range of subjects in the disciplines of Fluid
Mechanics and Acoustics and is firmly anchored in the field of Engineering Sciences.
It balances its work evenly between tackling fundamental scientific problems in the field
and working on the issues faced by key industrial sectors such as air and land transport,
energy and processes. The reduction of environmental impact, the optimisation of energy
consumption, and the development of new technologies are all the subject of close partnerships with businesses, public-sector bodies and local councils.
The laboratory’s expertise is strongly focussed on fluid flow turbulence and transition to
turbulence, hydrodynamic instabilities, numerical simulation, controlling internal aerodynamics, coupled phenomena, aeroacoustics, numerical acoustics, multiphase flow and
microfluidics. These themes have direct applications in the fields of turbomachinery,
environmental flow (atmospheric or hydrological), the reduction of transport noise, mixing
processes and automotive motorisation.
ACHIEVEMENTS
• LMFA carried out the first direct numerical simulations of the
noise emitted by jet flow using Large Eddy Simulation. These
calculations have been used to reduce the noise produced by jet
engines.
• Development of the SIRANE software programme which makes
it possible to predict the concentration of atmospheric pollutants on the scale of one street in a large urban agglomeration.
This software is now used in around ten major European cities.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Turbulence and Instability
• Design of a new microfluidic micromixer for the hybridisation of
DNA chips and lab-on-a-chip.
• Complex fluids and transfers
• Acoustics
• Turbomachinery
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
Equipment:
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics
• Physics of Fluids
• JASA
• AIAA Journal
• J. of Crystal Growth
• Anechoic chamber and supersonic wind tunnel
• Atmospheric wind tunnel
• Axial compressor test bench CREATE
• Hydraulic channels
KEY FIGURES
Budget of 8,8 M€ (of which 2.2m from industrial contracts)
35
Teacher-Researchers: 35
CNRS Researchers: 20
68
20
Engineers, Technicians and Administrative staff: 44
PhD and post-doctoral students: 68
44
Laboratory Director: Jean-Louis GUYADER
LVA
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 80 80 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 87 12
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment St. Exupéry
25 bis av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratory
EA 677
[email protected] - http://lva.insa-lyon.fr/
Noise mapping of lawnmower blades
Vocation
The LVA laboratory works on the theme of vibro-acoustics, i.e. the study of noise-generating phenomena resulting from the vibrations of structures or the vibrations caused by
exposure to noise. The laboratory’s work focuses on understanding these phenomena,
their theoretical prediction and their experimental characterisation. There are four key
areas of research:
• the studying of phenomena of sound transmission by structures in light (aerial acoustics) or heavy (submarine acoustics) fluids for excitation conditions from acoustic waves,
mechanical forces or turbulence fields,
• the development of predictive methods which take into account random behaviour at
medium frequencies and the interest of considering energy quantities in order to obtain
robust forecast methods,
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Party to several European networks and contracts (Visper,
Silence, Cantor etc.).
• the identification of the vibratory or acoustic sources which cause sound emission
phenomena using inverse problems,
• Creation of an international conference in our field of research
(NOVEM 2000 et NOVEM 2005). • the characterisation of sound perception which integrates the human factor that is so
important when looking at noise-related issues. This perception analysis forms the
basis of the concept of noise quality used increasingly commonly in industry.
• French member of the European Doctorate in Sound and
Vibration which groups together major European laboratories
to award this European Doctorate.
A more recent area of research is coupling with new intelligent, granular materials etc.
to create multi-material structures with high insulation or acoustic absorption performance.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
The laboratory has built up strong links with major French and European industrial companies in the transport sector. The dual demands of developing fundamental studies and
applications characterise the laboratory’s work and make it a key member of the Carnot
Institute labelled I@L.
• JSV
• ACTA ACUSTICA
• JASA
• APPLIED ACOUSTICS
• J. ACOUSTICS and VIBRATION (ASME)
AREAS OF RESEARCH
KEY FIGURES
• Acoustic Radiation and Transmission
Average annual budget: 500k€
• Calculation methods for medium frequencies
• Source identification
1,5
• Sound perception
• New materials for acoustics
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Sound perception test unit
• Reverberant room
• Engine vibroacoustic bench
8
Teacher-Researchers: 9
Administrative staff: 2
Technical staff: 1
Masters students: 8
PhD students: 10
Transfer engineers: 1.5
Vibratory and acoustic
environment simulator
9
10
1
2
STI POLE
INFORMATION SCIENCES
AND TECHNOLOGY
CITI
CRÉATIS
LIESP
LIRIS
Laboratory Director: Jean-Marie GORCE
CITI
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 64 15 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 62 27
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Claude Chappe
6 av. des Arts, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Centre for Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of services
EA3720
[email protected] - http://www.citi.insa-lyon.fr/
Wave propagation simulation in indoor
environment.
Vocation
The CITI works on the design, modelling and validation of the hardware and software
required to develop ambient networks, mobile services and ubiquitous information technology. Today networks use increasingly heterogeneous architectures deployed in an
uncoordinated manner by a large number of actors. Slowly, the access network planning
and sizing phase is giving way to the implementation of self-organisation and self-configuration mechanisms. In parallel, the number of communicating objects has rocketed,
and beyond simple access networks the concept of an ambient network in which objects
interact with each other and their environment in a way that is spontaneous and clear to
the user is being developed.
As a result, the design, modelling and optimisation of these infrastructures has changed
profoundly and requires new models, new approaches, and new concepts based on the
distributed algorithms and learning which are the key to the mobile embedded information technology of the future.
Along with this spectacular increase in application needs, new access technologies are
also confronted with the problem of the saturation of radio resources and increasingly
stringent requirements in terms of energy consumption and electromagnetic pollution.
The CITI develops its research in five major areas: Networks and protocols, digital communication, embedded systems, middleware, and security.
Research at the CITI is carried out by two research teams in association with the INRIA (the French National Institute for Research
in Computer Science and Control): The Swing (Smart Wireless
Networking) team which works on adaptive architectures for
ambient networks and the Amazones (Ambient Middleware
Architectures: Services Oriented, Networked, Efficient and
Secured) team which looks at middleware for mobile objects
and embedded systems.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Networks and protocols
• Digital communication
• Embedded systems
• Middleware
• Security
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Equipment:
Hardware platforms:
- Meshed networks
- MIMO:2x2 [0-6GHz] radio bench
- Wireless sensors
- Radio software boards
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Simulators: Development of simulation environments used by the scientific community
– SocLib: System-on-chip simulator
– Wsim: Microcontroller simulator (instruction accuracy) with energy consumption.
– Wsnet: Protocol simulation of sensor networks.
– Wiplan: indoor environment propagation simulation.
• Hardware developments:
- Wireless sensor communication module and integrated platform for the design and
optimisation of applications for sensor networks.
- Multi-standard radio-software receiver with Orange labs, equipped with front-end RF 4
channel reception and a reconfigurable radio.
• Main national and European projects:
- Participation in several national ANR (French National Research Agency) projects for
sensor networks including
. ARESA: Protocols and systems for large-scale sensor networks;
. BANET: Protocols and systems for body area networks.
- Participation in the IST Muse I and Muse II projects for the deployment and administration of services in ADSL bridges. These vast projects bring together world leaders
in telecommunications (Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens, Thomson, France Telecom
R&D, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Telecom Italia, TNO Telecom, TeliaSonera, Portugal
Telecom Inovação, British Telecom, Telekomunikacja Polska, IBBT, NTUA, INRIA,
ACREO, BUTE, LTH, UC3M, HHI).
- Participation in the IST MOSAR project alongside the INSERM and the Institut Pasteur
to use sensor networks to study the development of the bacteria responsible for the
current increase in nosocomial infections and diseases.
- Leader of the IAPP iPLAN project for the development of a femtocell deployment tool for
indoor/outdoor environments.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Communication Letters
• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 700 ke
5
Software platforms:
20-25
Teacher-Researchers: 20
Permanent Researchers 2
20
Administrative staff: 3
- OSGi development
- ARM development
Technical staff: 5
2
Wireless communication module
for a sensor network developed
by the CITI
5
15-20
3
Masters students: 15-20
PhD students: 20-25
Post-doctoral students: 5
Laboratory Director: Isabelle MAGNIN
CREATIS
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 63 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 26
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Blaise Pascal
7 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Research Centre for Image Acquisition and Processing for Health
CNRS UMR 5220 - INSERM U 630
[email protected] - http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/
Partner establishment:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS, INSERM
Other partners:
Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Léon Bérard
Vocation
ACHIEVEMENTS
The specificity of the laboratory is its cross-disciplinary approach to medical imaging
research embodied by the presence of researchers from three scientific disciplines:
information and communication sciences and technologies, engineering sciences and the
science of living organisms.
The unit’s research approach can be explained as follows:
• the Life Sciences team identifies the major unanswered questions in its researchers’
areas of expertise (vascular, cardiac, pulmonary, ventilation functions, bone architecture,
cerebrovascular accidents, neuro-degenerative diseases).
• the Methodology-Instrumentation teams optimise the observation (new markers, choice
of imaging US, US RF, XR, PET, optical, MRI, NMR, with the development of new acquisition sequences) of physiopathological phenomena in order to reveal whether these are
normal or pathological,
• the Signal Processing, Imaging and Modelling teams develop signal and image processing methods (theories, algorithms) specifically adapted to the physical mode in which
the data is provided (US, US RF, XR, PET, optical, MRI, NMR) and to the phenomenon
observed with the aim of quantifying this phenomenon,
• the evaluation and validation of methods and results falls to the Health team which
develops experimental protocols and adapted clinical trials.
• 3D stent deployment - The volume imaging and morphological
and functional imaging teams (partners: HCL, GE Healthcare) have
proposed a new method for movement correction / reconstruction in
x-ray angiography which makes it possible to see ‘clearly’, measure
and check the full deployment of a 3D stent, in vivo in a coronary
artery.
• Epilepsy and NMR spectrometry - The spectroscopic NMR imaging
team has revealed, for the first time, the metabolic changes in the
brain of a mouse after intoxication with soman.
3D tomographic reconstruction of a
stent deployed in a coronary artery
• Numerical simulation and vascular imaging - The dynamic imaging
team has chosen to focus on simulation: In collaboration with the
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), it has proposed a
new alternative using the lattice Boltzmann method for the numerical
simulation of generalised Newtonian fluids.
• Real-time 2D ultrasound elastography - Using a new analytical estimator which measures spatial shift in the complex 2D signal phase,
the ultrasound imaging team can measure tissue displacement and
access real-time ultrasound elastography on the thyroid.
Volume modelling of a human heart
obtained from segmented MRI cuts
8 AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Dynamic imaging
• Volume imaging
• Ultrasound imaging
• Morphological and functional imaging
• Remodelling and bone tissue
• NMR imaging and exploratory methodologies
• NMR and optical imaging
• NMR spectroscopic imaging
5 sites
INSA, HCL, ESRF, CPE, Centre Léon Bérard
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• NMR imaging platform: 2T and 4.7T, magnet: 3.3T
• RF Ultrasound (3 - 10 MHz)
• PC Cluster - Calculator SGI ALTIX350
• Access to CERMEP (Centre for Multimodal and Multidisciplinary Studies and Research and Imaging of Living
Organisms)
- clinical imaging: PET, MRI 1.5T
- small animal imaging: MRI 7T, High frequency US, x-ray
µscanner, µPET, optical
• Permenant access to the ESRF (European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility)
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
• Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
• Stroke
• Radiology
THE LABORATORY’S 10 MAIN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology,
National University of Singapore, Universidad de Los Andes Bogota,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Technical University of Denmark
Copenhaguen, Thorax Center Rotterdam, Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, University of California San Francisco,
Stanford University.
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 1.5me (excluding tax)
Teacher-Researchers: 47 (including 8 with PUPH status*)
11
Permanent Researchers: 14
47
67
Administrative staff: 7
14
Technical staff: 23 (including 9 on temporary contracts)
Masters students: 20
PhD students: 67
3D image of cardiac muscle fibres obtained
using diffusion weighted MRI
20
23
7
Post-doctoral students: 11
* PUPH stands for Professeur des Universités Professeur Hospitalier
and is a mixed status for those working simulataneously as university
professors and clinical practitioners.
Laboratory Director: Jean-Pierre CAMPAGNE
LIESP
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 82 19 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 85 18
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Blaise Pascal
7, av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Laboratory of Information Technology for Businesses and Production Systems
[email protected] - http://www.liesp.fr/
Partner establishments:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
University Lumière Lyon 2
Vocation
Putting to use its expertise in the fields of information technology, industrial management, decision support and the design of interactive and learning systems, the research
carried out at the LIESP aims to design, evaluate and deploy generic environments,
models, methods and information systems as well as decision support to improve the
performance of businesses producing goods or services. This research looks at complex
distributed systems considered independently or simultaneously in their structural, decisional, informational and human dimensions:
LIESP is particularly interested in:
• the design of analytical and decision support methods and tools
• the design and organisation of production systems
• the design and instrumentation of their information systems
• the integration and training of the human stakeholders in these systems.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Analysis and decision support models.
• Organisation, piloting and integration of production systems and
logistics chains.
• Distributed and collaborative architectures.
• Advanced interactive human learning systems
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Process modelling software (ARIS Toolset etc.)
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• International Journal of Production Economics
• Computers in Industry
• Discrete Mathematics
• International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
• Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
• Optimisation software (C-PLEX, Lingo etc.)
• ERP (SAP, BAAN)
KEY FIGURES
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Creation and organisation of 4 international conferences (GISEH,
IEEE SKIMA, ILS, IWG PLM) and the running of two international
reviews (the International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management and the International Journal of Product Development).
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upport for the creation of 3 start-ups in 2007-2008: Kalistik,
Ginkyo and Oktobre. Participation with two of these companies
in the Quality Pact project supported by the Software Cluster and
the Rhône-Alpes region.
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oordination of the European project WARTHE: Training Wide
Area Research Training in Health Engineering.
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ctive member of the SCOPP project (Plastics Conversion
Process Control System) within the Rhône Alpes Sud-Jura
Plastics Conversion Competitiveness Cluster, two research
projects within the framework of the GOSPI research, and the
LGF (Learning Games Factory) and SEGAREM (Serious Games
and Mixed Reality) projects, part of the French government’s
recovery plan.
• I nvolved in two ANR (French National Research Agency) projects
(SEMEUSE (Semantics for Service Buses) and AOC (Complex
Object Matching)).
Average annual budget: 800ke
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Teacher-Researchers: 45
Administrative staff: 3
Masters students: 6
PhD students: 45
Post-doctoral students: 5
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Attila BASKURT
LIRIS
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 63 71 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 87 13
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiments Blaise Pascal et Jules Verne
20, av. Albert Einstein, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Laboratory of Images and Information Systems Information Technology
UMR 5205
[email protected] - http://liris.cnrs.fr/
Partner establishments:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
University Lumière Lyon 2
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
LIRIS is an information technology laboratory whose activities are grouped into two
thematic departments: Image (3D and multimedia) and Data, Knowledge and Services.
• Video annotation platform ADVENE (http://liris.cnrs.fr/advene/)
The Image Department is divided into five teams working in three areas:
- cooperation analysis and geometric modelling of 3D objects
- simulation, realistic rendering and augmented reality,
- data extraction and object recognition.
The Data, Knowledge and Services Department is made up of five teams working in two
areas: Knowledge discovery and data and services engineering.
LIRIS carries out advanced research into these two scientific themes whilst developing
its know-how in a variety of fields of application such as digital recreation (video games,
animated films, multimedia data processing etc.); biology and health (data mining,
analysis and modelling of complex systems, computing grids); culture and heritage
(digital libraries, critical edition, scanning ancient documents, archiving, virtual 3D
museums etc.); ambient intelligence (pervasive systems, sensor networks, intelligent
video surveillance etc.); human learning (personalisation, cognitive assistance, collaborative learning support, support for the inclusion of learners in disabling situations etc.).
• 3D Mesh Processing Platform MEPP (http://liris.cnrs.fr/plateformes/
MEPP/)
• Pervasive platform PerSE (http://liris.cnrs.fr/plateformes/PerSE/)
• Document scanning platform DigiBOOK
• Augmented reality platform OASIS
ACHIEVEMENTS
• 10 incubation projects since 2005 have led to the creation of 7 companies
in the Information Sciences and Technology sector.
• Organisation of the 2009 VLDB conference (the international conference
of reference in the database field).
• Participation in IXXI (the Rhône Alpes Institute of Complex Systems), with
a Deputy Director from LIRIS.
• Participation in the ETOILE project (Hadrontherapy by light ion beams),
with a Technical Director from LIRIS.
• LIRIS is also responsible for setting up, administering, and providing training at the GAMAGORA professional training laboratory for careers in the
video game industry.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
• Computer Graphics Forum
• ACM Transactions in Internet Technology
• VLDB Journal
• Information Systems
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 2me (2008)
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Cooperation analysis and geometric modelling of 3D objects (multiresolution & graphs; discrete geometry; algorithmic geometry).
• Simulation, realistic rendering and augmented reality,
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Teacher-Researchers: 87
Permanent Researchers 5
• Images, videos, documents: data extraction and object recognition.
Administrative staff: 10
• Knowledge discovery (data mining, modeling of complex systems,
knowledge engineering).
Technical staff: 6
• Data and services engineering (security and confidentiality; modeling, integration and querying; service composition).
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INL
LGEF
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Gérard GUILLOT
INL
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 81 61 - Fax : +33 (0)4 78 43 85 31
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Blaise Pascal
7 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Lyon Institute of Nanotechnologies
UMR CNRS 5270
[email protected] - http://inl.cnrs.fr/
Partner establishments:
CPE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon,
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Research body:
CNRS
Production of a single electron
transistor by manipulating Si
nanocrystals using AFM
Vocation
ACHIEVEMENTS
The INL is a fundamental and applied research laboratory working in the field of micro
and nanotechnologies. Its remit is to carry out research, on a scale ranging from materials through to systems, to allow the development of complete technological processes
for a variety of sectors of application (semiconductors and microelectronics, telecommunications, energy, health, biology, industrial control, defence, and the environment).
• Ultra-compact optical link for optical
interconnections.
This research is grouped into four main thematic areas (departments): Materials,
Electronics, Photonics and Photovoltaics, Biotechnology and Health.
The majority of the research programmes rely on the resources provided by the technological platform Nanolyon. There is also a cross-disciplinary research project specifically
dedicated to developing tools and techniques for nanocharacterisation.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Si integration: new materials, new functions
• Alternative nanoelectronic processes: new materials, discrete
components, predictive circuit simulation
• Nanophotonics: Telecommunications and quantum information
• 3rd generation photovoltaics
• Microdevices/systems for health, the environment, energy and
telecommunications
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES
• Nanolyon technological platform comprised of 200m2 of clean
rooms and 300m2 of clean technology rooms equipped with technological resources for work on III-V, Si, SiC, organic and biochip
materials and (discrete) components.
- Nanocharacterisation:
- Near field: AFM, STM, SNOM
- Analytical: SIMS, FTIR
- Surfaces: XPS-XPD
- Structural: TEM, DDX
- Optical: Photoluminescence, photoreflectance
- Electro-optical: DLTS, charge pumping, photoconductivity,
electroluminescence, electroreflectance
The first ultra-compact Si integrated
optical link was designed, produced
and tested within the framework of the European project PICMOS
(a collaboration between IMEC, CEA-LETI, TU Eindhoven). It is
composed of a very low consumption InP microlaser emitting at
1.55µm, a Si optical guide and an InP photodetector. This link is
intended for integration into a CMOS IC.
Single electron transistor using
3 silicium nanocrystals connected
to source and drain electrodes
by nanomanipulation using
an atomic force microscope.
This type of nanodevice makes
it possible to regulate the current
electron by electron thanks to
the chain of nanocrystals.
• Ultra-thin photovoltaic (PV) cells
Half the cost of a silicium PV cell can be imputed to the cost of the
substrate. The use of ultra-thin Si substrates leads to a reduction
in the optical path of light through the cell and thereby to a
decrease in yield. The application of technologies to increase
optical path length within the PV cell such as the formation of a
reflector on the reverse side is indispensable.
A reverse-side reflector (Bragg mirror) was formed on industrial
PV cells 150 µm thick. The application of this reflector significantly
improved the PV cells’ infrared response and resulted in a 2% gain
in current.
• SiC nanocrystals for the fluorescent marking of living cells.
Stable colloidal solutions containing highly luminescent SiC nanocrystals were obtained from the electro-chemical etching of SiC
polycrystalline substrates. It has been demonstrated that these
nanoparticles are easily incorporated into biological cells and are
easily detectable, opening the way to a new biocompatible marker
that is perfectly stable over time.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Applied Physics Letters
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Optics Letters
• Thin Solid Films
• Electronics Letters
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 3 to 3.2me (excluding salaries)
• CAD Platform
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Teacher-Researchers: 62
62
Permanent Researchers 22
Administrative staff: 11
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Technical staff: 28
Masters students: 20-25
PhD students: 95
Post-doctoral students: 14
Laboratory Director: Daniel GUYOMAR
LGEF
Tel. : +33 (0)4 72 43 81 58 - Fax : +33 (0)4 72 43 88 74
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Gustave FERRIE
8 rue de la Physique, 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex - France
Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Ferroelectricity
[email protected] - http://lgef.insa-lyon.fr/
EXPERIMENTAL RESOURCES:
Vocation
LGEF develops research activities focused on multiphysics coupling and, in particular, on
electroactive materials and systems.
This activity is divided into two closely-related areas:
- electro-active materials: Synthesis, experimental behaviour laws and associated
modelling, with specific research projects on ferroelectric single crystals with high
conversion factors, nanocharged electroactive polymers (carbon nanotubes, magnetic
nanoparticles, Silicon Carbide nanofibres) and the multi-scale modelling of their behaviour;
• Equipment:
- Single crystal and ceramic synthesis furnaces (Bridgman and flux).
- Single crystal X-ray diffraction and orientation
- Material cutting workshop
- Thermal analysis modules.
- UV-visible and absorption spectroscopy
- Temperature conversion measurement benches under electrical
fields and mechanical stress.
- electro-active systems: The physics of piezoelectric systems, and in particular
research projects on the modelling of the behaviour of ferroelectrics in linear and
nonlinear regimes, the improvement of the performance of piezoelectric systems using
nonlinear processing techniques for the electrical signals generated by materials in
order to develop:
- Strain measurement benches by vibrometry and interferometry.
- semi-active control systems for narrow and broadband driving signals,
ACHIEVEMENTS
- microgenerators of electrical energy from ambient vibratory or thermal
sources,
- self-powered, wireless, autonomous systems (sensor networks, vibration
control systems, structure health control),
• Original nonlinear processing to improve energy conversion in
electroactive systems and harvest up to ten times more electrical
energy from ambient energy (6 patents).
- small broadband piezoelectric transformers
and pyroelectric and electrocaloric coupling for cooling systems and energy harvesting.
- Finite element modelling.
• Development of international links (China/Japan/USA). Creation
of laboratories without walls with Japan and the USA.
• DGA Thesis Prize 2004.
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency
Control
• Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 200ke
AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Energy harvesting from ambient energy (vibratory and thermal).
• Modeling the behaviour of electroactive materials using fraction
operators.
• Multi-scale synthesis and characterisation of ferroelectric materials.
• Nanocharged, electrostrictive and magneto-electric polymers.
• Self-powered wireless systems for vibration control, health control
and mobile equipment.
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Teacher-Researchers: 17
Administrative staff: 1
10
Technical staff: 4
Masters students: 3
3
PhD students: 10
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Post-doctoral students: 1
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MATHEMATICS
ICJ
INSA Site Laboratory Director: Jérôme POUSIN
ICJ
Tel. : 04 72 43 88 36 - Fax : 04 78 43 85 29
Campus LyonTech la Doua - INSA de Lyon
Bâtiment Léonard de Vinci
21 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex - France
Camille Jordan Institute
UMR 5208
jerome;[email protected] - http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/
Partner establishments:
University Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Research body:
CNRS
Vocation
THE MAIN JOURNALS IN WHICH THE LABORATORY PUBLISHES
The Camille Jordan Institute is a mathematical research laboratory.
Created through the merger of four different laboratories, it is now one of the largest
mathematical laboratories in France. The institute’s research covers a wide scope: from
the most abstract mathematics (algebra, group theory, number theory – it is home to
one of the rare logic teams in France) to the most applied (mathematical modelling
for biology, scientific calculations, statistics) via a number of cross-border disciplines
(mathematical physics, the theory of partial differential equations, probabilities).
The laboratory works in collaboration with numerous other French and international
mathematical laboratories and with laboratories in other disciplines such as mechanics,
biology, image processing and the environment.
• Inventiones
• Publications mathématiques de l’IHP
• The Annals of Probability
• Math. of Computation
• Annals of Mathematics
KEY FIGURES
Average annual budget: 350,000 e (excluding contracts)
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AREAS OF RESEARCH
• Algebra, geometry, logic.
• PDE, analysis.
• Mathematical modelling and scientific calculations.
• Probabilities, statistics and mathematical physics.
• Combinatorial and discrete structure number theory.
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Teacher-Researchers: 118
Permanent Researchers: 124
Administrative staff: 19
Technical staff: 3
Masters students: 60
PhD students: 50
Post-doctoral students: 2