Theme: Lumières2.0

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Anais Tondeur

Anaïs Tondeur is a visual artist. Her art practice draws on an exploration of the interface between art and science, senses and cognition, fact and fiction. Her installations bring into narrative questions stemming from the evolution of knowledge and the impact of human living on the environment, through expeditions in physical or fictional territories. To this end, she often collaborates with scientists in the fields of geosciences, physics or astrophysics.

Anne Dutrey

Anne est astrophysicienne. Aujourd’hui spécialiste en interférométrie millimétrique, technique qui permettent d’observer le milieu interstellaire autrement invisible à l’aide de télescopes optiques, elle est mondialement connue pour ses travaux portant sur l’observation des disques protoplanétaires tournant autour d'étoiles similaires au Soleil jeune. Ces disques sont en fait les nurseries des planètes, une découverte qui ouvre des larges portes vers la compréhension des mécanismes de formation des planètes.

Daniel Choquet

Initially an engineer, Daniel Choquet became a neuroscientist out of his fascination for this black box that accomplishes so many incredible functions: the human brain. His worked has evidenced the mobility of neurotransmitters, which may be at play in the brain storage process. A property that may help understanding better, even curing, brain dysfunctions such as Alzheimer’s diseases. Daniel Choquet is a highly recognized scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Isabelle Corten

Isabelle Corten is an architect and an urbanist, specialized in lighting. She is very soon fascinated by the social role that light can play in cities, by the « social nights ». Thus, he gets involved in projects and workshops with a political dimension, aimed at offering new perspectives on otherwise neglected, « poor » neighbourhoods. To her, public lighting must convey feelings of comfort, warmth, and she puts those ideas into practice in places that need it the most.

Laurent Cognet

Laurent Cognet is a scientist specialized in optics. His pioneering research focuses on detecting and understanding what is happening at the nano scale, this extremely small scale that the human eye cannot explore. He has invented new methods, that have been awarded many prizes, to explore always further the living matter. And what he found there, he says, is extremely surprising and unexpected !

Mathieu Nebra

At the age of 13, in 1999, when internet was barely accessible for most families, Mathieu Nebra decided that he wanted to learn how to build a website. Frustrated by the lack of help for complete beginners on a then obscure topic, he launched le "Site du Zéro", now "OpenClassrooms", an e-learning website based on communities. There, anyone can learn, and anyone can share knowledge. Mathieu Nebra thus proposes new education paradigms - and also saved many many students in computer sciences !

Philippe Balcou

Philippe Balcou est physicien. Son terrain de jeu : les lasers intenses, ces jets de lumière ordonnée dont la puissance peut être incommensurable. Depuis des années, il travaille avec son équipe à mettre au point de nouveaux lasers de plus en plus puissants, qui pourront par la suite avoir des applications scientifiques, médicales et sociétales ambitieuses. Scientifique passionné, et reconnu, Philippe Balcou est avant tout un passeur de savoirs.

Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Pierre-Alexandre Balland is Assistant Professor in Economic Geography. He is fascinated by the mechanisms that lead to the emergence of new ideas and how societies create and exchange knowledge. His work focuses in particular on the persistent role of geographical proximity in a world that seems smaller than ever before.

Stéphane Guilloteau

Stéphane est astrophysicien. Expert mondialement reconnu des techniques d'observations millimétriques, techniques qui permettent d’observer le milieu interstellaire autrement invisible à l’aide de télescopes optiques, sa recherche est centrée sur l'étude de la formation des systèmes planétaires.

Thierry Perceval

Thierry Perceval est un éclairagiste, un "concepteur lumière". On doit à ce spécialiste de la lumière la mise en lumière tout type de spectacles allant de shows télévisés à des comédies musicales ou d’opéra, en passant par des festivals tels que les Eurockéennes, des conventions d’entreprises ou encore des expositions ou des monuments. Une passion qu’il exerce et partage depuis 30 ans au sein de son entreprise, Dushow Bordeaux.

Yann Kersalé

Yann Kersalé utilise la lumière comme d’autres utilisent des matériaux de construction tels que la terre ou le béton. La nuit est son terrain d’expérimentation. Jouant avec les conventions, il redessine des lieux, par son interprétation technique, mais avant tout sensible. Cet architecte de la lumière a ainsi illuminé le Musée du Quai Branly à Paris, l’aéroport de Bangkok, le Sony Center à Berlin, et bien d’autres encore, donnant une dimension poétique à l’éclairage urbain.