IFPEN’s expertise and skills are key influence and appeal factors when it comes to conducting open and collaborative research. Peer recognition in a variety of fields, reflected in the numerous, often prestigious awards received over the years, is thus essential.
Awards and accolades obtained in 2026
 | Soufiane Abideddine, PhD student in fluid mechanics, received the first prize for his poster, “Multi-Scale Bubble Hydrodynamics in Organic Liquids: Local Measurements in Bubble Columns and Coalescence–Breakup Investigation” at the IMFTF 2026 (International Multiphase Flow Technology Forum) conference held in Leeds (UK) from July 27 to 31. His doctoral research focuses on the population balance method in organic liquids for bubble column reactors. |
 | Assem Nurlybayeva, PhD student in chemical sciences, was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the second European Meeting on Infrared Nanospectro-Imaging, held in Rome from June 17 to 19. Her thesis research focuses on the use of an emerging spectroscopic technique, AFM-IR, to characterize polymer-polymer interphases, with the aim of quantitatively studying these interphases at the nanoscale and their evolution over the material's lifespan. |
 | Malika Boualleg, research engineer and project manager in the Catalysis, Biocatalysis and Separation division, received the DivCat “Applied Catalysis” award from the DIVCAT Catalysis Study Group (Catalysis Division of the SCF, French Chemical Society) for her work and innovations in heterogeneous catalysis (valued by the filing of numerous patents) and in the extraction of critical mineral resources. |
 | Elpida Maragkozoglou, PhD student in biotechnology, won the oral presentation award at the ABIES PhD student conference ("Agriculture, Alimentation, Biologie, Environnement et Santé" in French, that is "Agriculture, Food, Biology, Environment, and Health", Paris-Saclay University) on April 7 and 8. The work presented focuses on the metabolic modeling of *Clostridium acetobutylicum* for synthetic biology applications. |
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