Alain Fontaine

International programmes for
research and education
@ Grenoble
including the European school
ESONN for nanosciences and
nanotechnologies
Alain
Fontaine
Director & Inst. NEEL, CNRS
20 January 2012
Alain Fontaine (past)
Ariel Levenson (present)
Directors of
the CNRS C’Nano programme
SOUTH AFRICA –FRANCE
FIRST JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING
Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Pretoria, April, 7-9, 2009
3 correlated actions
The human capital development:
education & training
Networking
ressources
mutualized
open platforms
Networking
human
ressources
shines in South Africa
On April 16th, 2009, a Memorandum of
Understanding for using the synchrotron
French national facility SOLEIL was signed
between the National Research
Foundation of South Africa and SOLEIL.
Synchrotron light sources
Science at Synchrotrons in South Africa
13 January 2012 : The "Strategic Plan for Synchrotron
Science in SA" is complete. It is not yet a public
document, but requests to the SRRIC Chair, Tshepo
Ntsoane (tshepo.ntsoane@necsa.co.za), will be
considered
1-2 December 2011 : The "Science @ Synchrotrons Business Plan and Strategic Plan" Workshop.
Left to right: Dr Maharaj & Dr Van Jaarsveld NRF,
Mr Orliange of the French Embassy
Mr Kriger of the NRF,
signing the memorandum in Pretoria.
Jani FREDERIC 2 years post-doc,
Paul Dumas @
IR imaging, lice cells, medical appl.
0rganising committee:
- Dr Loïc Bertrand (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Dr Stéphane Hœrlé (Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Mr Siyakha Mguni (Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve/University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Prof. John Parkington (Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Welcome
HRTEM
Pr. E. Iwuoha
Dr. L. Khotseng
Pr. D. Knoesen
Dr. L. Petrik
Pr. J. Rees
Grenoble 23-24 march 2009
Dr. Thierry Epicier – CNRS CEA
Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atom Probe Network (Réseau METSA)
Dr. Jean-Luc Rouvière – Institute of Nanosciences and Cryogenics (CEA
Grenoble):
Electron Microscopy at CEA-Grenoble and potential collaborations
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European School On
Nanosciences &
Nanotechnologies
(ESONN) 2012
Application will be open
in February 2012
Director: Hervé Courtois, UJF
Deputy director: Didier Delabouglise,
Grenoble INP
contact@esonn.fr
ESONN
A European training session at the PhD level,
devoted to nanoscience and nanotechnologies,
with a both theoretical and practical content
• 50 - 60 PhDs and post-docs
• 3 weeks in August-September in Grenoble, since 2004
• Half lectures, half practicals
• Industrial sites visits, students poster session
• Funding: Ministry of Education & of Research,
CNRS, UJF, INPG, Région Rhône-Alpes, CEA,
Grenoble city, Nanosciences Grenoble
Angelo
Accardo
Julien
Perrine
Pavels
Filippo
Elisa
Roberta
Chonglong
Magdalena
Jeroen
Lasma
Luiz Henrique
Simon Abay
Basset
Berger
Birjukovs
Bosco
Buselli
Bussamara Rodrigues
CAO
Czapkiewicz
de Vries
Gailite
Galvao Tizei
Gebrehiwot
Maija
Mirolyuba
Gabriel
Morten Hannibal
Céline
Tung
Huuppola
Ilieva
Landi
Madsen
Masclaux
Nguyen Thanh
Nobom
Hashe
Italian
French
French
Latvian
Italian
Italian
Brazilian
China
Polish
Dutch
Latvian
brazilian
Ethiopian
South African
Finnish
Bulgarian
Brazilian
Danish
French
Vietnamese
Odireleng Ntwaeaborwa South African
Jesper
Vivek
Juha-Matti
Mamun
Debangsu
Olli-Pentti
Fabrizio
Silja
Anastasia
Soumik
Stephanie
GALA
Anderson
Igor
Rosane
Evan
Davide
Chet
Vasiliy
Sarah
Silvia
Simone
Volker
Fan
Zhen
Sanja
Ilarion
Olsen
Pachauri
Pirkkalainen
Rashid
Roy
Saira
Salomone
Senkbeil
Shcherbakova
Siddhanta
Simmons
SIMON RAMIREZ
Singulani
Siretanu
Soares
Spadafora
Spirito
Steinhagen
Stolyarov
Stranahan
Taccola
Tanzi
Wirth
Wu
Zhu
Zonja
PAVEL
2010
Danish
Indian
Finnish
Bangladeshi
Indian
Finnish
Italian
german
Russia
Indian
Canadian
SPANISH
Brazilian
Republica Moldo
Brazilian
American
Italian
U.S.A.
Russian
U.S.A.
Italian
Italian
German
China
Chinese
Croatian
Français/Roumain
Thavendran
Peter
Kelly
Igor
Romain
Tianjun
LORENA
Paolo
Lorenzo
Yasmine
Nosipho
Govender
2011
Hodgson
Houben
Kukhtevich
Lavieville
Li
MARIN
Marizza
Maserati
Miguel Serafini
Micheletto
Moloto
South African
British
Belgian
Russian
French
chinoise
COLOMBIA
Italian
Italy
Brazilian
South African
ESONN: the lectures program
6 hours lectures, mixing micro-électronics, nano-sciences, technologies, biology
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Physics of devices: E. Sangiorgi, Bologna, Italy
Molecular electronics: L. Hueso, San Sebastian, Spain
Mesoscopic transport: P. Samuelsson, Lund, Sweden
Single-electron effects: P. Delsing, Chalmers, Sweden
Spintronics : C. Marrows, Leeds, UK
Nanothermics: J. Pekola, Helsinki
Surface and molecule physico-chemistry: R. Richter, Heidelberg, Germany
Advanced biophysics, micro-systems: R. Hovius, Lausanne, Switzerland
Mechanics of molecules and biological structures: T. Duke, Cambridge, UK
Immunochemistry and biosensors: D. Altschuh, Strasbourg, France
Microfluidics for lab-on-chips: J.B. Salmon, Bordeaux, France
Biological applications of microelectrodes: S. Arbault, Paris, France
Technologies of nanofabrication: G. Faini, Marcoussis, France
Near-field microscopies: H. Hug, Basel, Switzerland
Self-assembled systems and materials: M. Boncheva, Genève, Switzerland
Practicals at University clean rooms: CIME
• Centre Interuniversitaire de Micro-Electronique
: UJF and INPG
• practicals
• 450 m2 of clean rooms at the Minatec
innovation center
• “Nanomonde“ platform for local probes
• Biotechnologies,
• electrical characterization,
• simulation, conception …
Alain Fontaine
Director
The Nanosciences Foundation:
a local network
starting on May 2007
to synergize fundamental sciences
&
Alain Fontaine
Director
to be part of the
Grenoble innovation eco-system
2012: a network of
33 labs & 900 permanent scientists
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www.neel.cnrs.fr
70
60
Human
ressources
Financial
ressources
50
40
PhD students
Chairs
30
Post-doc
20
Main actions
10
0
2007-2 2008-1 2008-2 2009-1 2009-2
Chairs of
excellence
PhD students
from abroad
Scientific
Animation
2010-1
2010-2 2011-1
Facilities
Projects
4 Chairs of Excellence of the Nanosciences Foundation
focused on 4 strategic challenges for Grenoble
Tetiana AKSENOVA
Donald MARTIN
Mairbek CHSHIEV
All the full time chairs
get offers
of permanent positions
@ Grenoble
Max HOFHEINZ
Funded on April 2004 ,Crocus Technology , Grenoble ….
Future: to be professor @ University Joseph Fourier
Mairbek CHSHIEV
Crocus Technology Strikes $300 Million
May 17, 2011 :
Crocus Technology, a leading developer of MRAM technology, and RUSNANO, a
premier nano-technology investment fund, ….to create an MRAM manufacturing
company, with a combined investment totaling $300 million.
Crocus and RUSNANO will form Crocus Nano Electronics (CNE), to build an advanced
MRAM facility in Russia, capable of manufacturing (TAS) MRAM at 90nm and 65nm lithographies.
Bertrand F.
Cambou,
$120 million further investment to support upgrades to 45nm
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — October 5, 2011 — Crocus Technology, ….announced a joint technology
development agreement and a patent license agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM).
November 10,2011.
Crocus Technology, and Morpho Sign Agreement to Develop Smart Cards Based on MagneticLogic-Unit™ (MLU) Technology
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Chairs of Excellence
Post-doctorants
Doctorants
19
Thanks for your attention
Financial supports to the selected projects from 2007 to 2011
Total
Year
amounts
M€
Young
incoming
researchers
Chairs of
excellence
foundation
M€
%
M€
%
M€
%
M€
%
projects
Facilities
2007
5.92
2.286
38.6
1.091
18.4
0.773
13.0
1.775
30.0
2008
4.85
1.085
22.4
0.951
19.6
0.475
9.8
2.327
48.0
2009
2.43
0.93
38.3
0.76
31.3
0
0.74
30.4
2010
2.51
1.730
68.9
0
0
0.78
31.1
Total support to the technological facilities:
5.622 M€
 stronger in the 2 first years
Total support to the Chairs of Excellence:
5.12 M€
Ph D Program
Year
n
2007
2008
7
6
Cost
(M€)
0.80
0.69
2009
9
1.04
2010
6
0.69
Total
28
2.53