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Interview of Mrs Estelle IACONA, Research Director of Ecole Centrale Paris

D'Alembert Institute and Ecole Centrale Paris are thinking about setting up a call for proposals between the two institutions that should be launched at the beginning of 2013. To this end, a meeting involving teams and laboratories from IDA and ECP was organized on October 19th, 2012, where Mrs. Estelle Iacona, Professor and Research Director of Ecole Centrale Paris, took part in the opening session.

Teams of Centrale Paris and IDA are jointly involved in 4 collaborative LabEx, covering nearly all their fields of expertise (engineering and systems, nanosciences, physics and chemistry): Nano-Saclay - LaSIPS - PALM - Charmmmat.How geographical proximity between the ECP and IDA labs could be a real asset to make exchanges and collaborations easier?


During the meeting on October 19th, geographical proximity was clearly a facilitating circumstance to help informal exchanges, especially by enlarging the group of participants well beyond partners and colleagues who already knew each other. Apart from the geographical proximity, the asset of the IDA and ECP teams is not only the proximity of expertise areas they have but also the deep complementarity of our disciplinarities. This complementarity is one of the LabEx principles in which IDA and ECP teams are currently involved. The scientific issues are treated in the same way in both teams. This attitude is a nugget of gold which ECP, as ENS Cachan, would like to preserve and emphasize. In my opinion, a call for joint projects between IDA and ECP will be in perfect agreement with this request.

During the morning meeting IDA/ECP, you have supported the current partnerships and the connections already confirmed between the labs of IDA and those of your School. You have also encouraged these collaborations by reminding that ECP wants to support a call for proposals IDA/ECP in 2013. If this initiative succeeds in 2013, which benefits do you expect for ECP?


First, the idea of a call for joint projects has been proposed by the researchers from IDA and ECP. Some of them are already working within the framework of ANR projects or for a co-direction of thesis. Others have discovered their colleagues' activities during the meeting on October 19th.  That's how some great potential collaborations on innovative multidisciplinary subjects have been identified, thanks to the disciplinary excellence of the IDA and ECP research teams. The best impacts for ECP are not only building up the existing partnerships but also the identification of those new paths. The idea of the common call for joint projects seems perfect to allow these paths to crystallize, and then to grow up through projects submitted to IdEx, national and European programs. Finally, ECP has decided to signpost a doctoral contract for 2013, co-directed and connected to an IDA/ECP partnership from the call for proposals.

IDA and the incubator of ECP celebrated their 10th anniversary in May 2012, confirming in their own way that their initiatives are synonymous with innovation, advanced technologies and successful projects. How could collaborative IDA/ECP projects become an interesting target for your company incubator?


The incubator and its companies are already strongly oriented to ECP research and its laboratories. As is currently the case for some projects, connections intend to be bi-directional. The emergence of new projects as well as the reinforcement of existing IDA/ECP projects, could give rise to new incubated projects. In addition, incubated companies could consider these projects as a possibility for innovating and upstream partnerships.


4 Dates


2000 : Doctorat en Physique des Transferts de l'École Centrale Paris.
2006 : HDR
Jan. 2010 : Directrice du Laboratoire Energétique Moléculaire et Macroscopique (CNRS UPR 288, EM2C)
01 Jan. 2012 : Directrice de la Recherche à l'ECP



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