Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

Maureen Clerc was awarded the Pierre Faurre Prize by the French Academy of Sciences. This award recognizes her outstanding contributions to the modelling and interpretation of electrical signals in the brain. The ceremony took place at the Institut de France on October 14th, 2013.

Emmanuel Caruyer was awarded the AFRIF Best PhD thesis award 2013 for his work “Q-space diffusion MRI: Acquisition and Signal Processing” performed under the direction of Rachid Deriche. He received the award thesis AFRIF 2013 during RFIA Conference held from June 30 to July 4, 2014 in Rouen.

Rachid Deriche was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor (honoris causa) from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. This award recognises his achievements and contributions to image processing, computer vision and computational brain imaging. The title was awarded at the academic conferment ceremony held on September 20th, 2014 at the University of Sherbrooke.

Théo Papadopoulo has been promoted to the position of Research Director Class 2, starting from October 1st, 2014.