Congratulations to Lucas Rouhi, PhD student at Inria (I4S team), for winning the Best PhD Paper Award for the article “Controlling dispersion in lattice waveguides using positive-stiffness-only non-local interactions” by Lucas Rouhi and Christophe Droz at the ICOVP & WMVC-2025 (16th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP-2025) & 11th International Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations (WMVC-2025), held in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 2–5, 2025). This work introduces original wave manipulation strategies and was carried out as part of the ANR-JCJC Archi-Noise project.

Team member Michael Döhler has received the IOMAC Leadership Award at the 10th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference in Naples, Italy. The award is offered by the permanent IOMAC Committee to individuals for their seminal contributions to the development of operational modal analysis.

By plane, by car, or by train, noise is often part of the journey. Technological advances are there, but some sources of noise still don’t want to hear anything and continue to resist… At the Inria Center of the University of Rennes, scientist Christophe Droz is exploring an innovative way to better control waves. The idea: to establish interactions between distant areas of the structure to cancel out very low frequency vibratory effects. In perspective: new material concepts for engineers in the field of vibration and noise control. See the full article. Read it here.

In Rennes, the new CityVal automatic metro runs on concrete tracks, where electric heating is used to de-ice the track in cold weather. To optimize the use of the de-icing system and control energy consumption, the manufacturer Siemens relies on thermal modeling research carried out by our team. An article has appeared in the Inria newsletter émergences: see here (in French).

Enora Denimal had the opportunity to share the objectives and results of the No-Bif Exploratory Action in the Inria newsletter Emergence. You can find the article and podcast here.

Our paper “Wave Transmission and Reflection Analysis Based on the 3D Second Strain Gradient Theory” has won the Best Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on Wave Mechanics and Vibrations. Congratulations to the co-authors and our team member Christophe Droz!

Congratulations to Christophe Droz for his successful application as ISFP at Inria. We look forward to welcoming him as a permanent member in the I4S team in October 2021.

Within the RFI Wise project MUSIWIND on wind turbine monitoring, our team member Xavier Chapeleau has installed high performance accelerometers from project partner Sercel on the tower of a wind turbine (owner: VALOREM, control, operation and maintenance: VALEMO) this June. We look forward to working with the data for long-term monitoring of the wind turbine! More information on the project here, and from the wind turbine operator

An article about our recent collaboration with the French company Sercel on structural health monitoring has appeared in the Inria newsletter émergences in April 2021: see here (in French).

Welcome to Romain Noël who joined the University of Gustave Eiffel in November 2020 as a researcher and is now part of the I4S team.