Research news
- [Thesis defence] 15/12/2025 – Sarah Kubien: «Avoidance in environmental law: an introduction through environmental assessment» (UMR IMBE)
- [Thesis defence] 19/12/2025 – Michel Mouléry: «Analysis of interactions between short supply chains and morphological complexity of urban boundaries: application to fruit and vegetables in Provence (France)» (UMR ESPACE)
- The LIAvignon Chair presents its 2020-2024 activity report
- [Thesis defence] 19/12/2025 – Ahmed NJIFENJOU: «Open-domain conversational agents based on transformer-based language models: towards multilingualism and personality» (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defence] 16/12/2025 – Grace Tessa Masse: «Cyber deception and resilience with distributed machine learning» (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defence] 17/12/2025 – Javier Belinchon Moreno: «Genetic and functional diversity of the NLRome/resistome in melons» (UR GAFL)
- [Thesis defence] 17/12/2025 – Hadrien Di Costanzo: «Drought and its uncertainties in the Mediterranean context. A Bayesian model for proactive management of water resources and their uses: application to the Gardon d'Anduze and Galeizon basins.» (UMR ESPACE)
- A busy start to the academic year for EUR Implanteus
- [Thesis defence] 12/12/2025 – Moulay Ali El Bouamraoui: «The teaching of Amazigh in Morocco and serene identity» (UPR ICTT)
- [Thesis defence] 16/12/2025 – Louna Rizzi: «Effect of the introduction and management of service plants on volatile organic compound emissions and aphid control in fruit growing» (UR PSH)
- [Thesis defence] 11/12/2025 – Moustapha Dieng: «Real-time monitoring of apple purée quality attributes during processing: physicochemical mechanisms and statistical modelling» (UMR SQPOV)
- [Thesis defence] 09/12/2025 – Pierre Le Bivic: «Water resource economy in honey bees (Apis mellifera): quantitative and qualitative aspects» (UPR Bees and Environment)
- [Thesis defence] 11/12/2025 – Nicolas André: «Real and hyper-complex representations and activation functions in neural networks for signal processing» (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defence] 12/12/2025 – Nathan Griot: «Robust text-dependent speaker verification through temporal alignment, multitask learning, adversarial and self-supervised learning» (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defence] 10/12/2025 – Lindsay Mas-Normand: «New analytical developments for metabolomics and the annotation of dye plant extracts: Applications in a cultural heritage context» (UMR IMBE)
- A look back at the Culture Europe relay day - A collective effort to strengthen European projects in the cultural field
- [Defence of thesis] 28/11/2025 - Marc-Antoine RACICOT: "Towards a more effective law for the conservation of wetlands and water environments in Canada: from an Avoid-Reduce-Compensate sequence to a conservation sequence" (UPR JPEG)
- [Thesis defence] 5/12/2025 - Estelle BRIDOUX: "Effects of planting flowering cover crops on bees' exposure to pesticides and the pollination of apple trees". (UR INRAE ABEILLES ET ENVIRONNEMENT)
- [PhD defence] 5/12/2025 - Thibaut Lecourt: "Five million hectares of communal land ownership: statistical and spatial characterisation of a planning resource on the scale of mainland France (2009-2021)" (UMR ESPACE)
- [PhD defence] 20/11/2025 - Louisette Garcin: "De trajectoires en possibles: convergences spatiotemporelles de mobilités plurielles - Modéliser les trajectoires individuelles de mobilité quotidienne pour estimer le potentiel de regroupement spatiotemporel" (UMR ESPACE)
- [PhD defence] 27/11/2025 - Léa Saby: "Evaluating nature-based solutions for restoring Mediterranean grasslands" (UMR IMBE/EECAR)
- [PhD defence] 26/11/2025 - Andrea Fox : "Reinforcement learning for resource allocation in Edge/Fog computing systems" (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defence] 25/11/2025 - Margaux Darnis: "Identifying the likely trajectories of dissemination of insect vectors of plant pathogens for better prophylaxis" (INRAE - PV)
- Agorantic 2025 Symposium - 1ᵉʳ December
- [Conference] 20 November 2025 - Roland Lehoucq: can we really stay alone on Mars?
- From 17 to 27 November - Residency European project Otrart: ART TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT WASTE
- [PhD defence] 12/11/2025 - Meriem HAMRANI: "Development of alternative and innovative strategies for sustainable and resilient management of biotic and abiotic stresses in citrus fruit" (UPR ERIT PSII)
- [HDR defence] 06/11/2025 - Loup Rimbaud: "Effective, sustainable and profitable management strategies for plant pathogens" (Plant Pathology - INRAE)
- 28th International Etienne Thil Conference in Martigues
- [PhD defence] 24/10/2025 - Lucas Maison: "Robustness of neural models for automatic speech processing" (UPR LIA)
- Conference - 4 November - "Moving for better growth: cultivating a taste for effort in children", by Boris Cheval, Senior Lecturer (ENS Rennes)
- AI Festival - 13 November 2025: Are AIs dreaming of artificial sheep? Towards more human AI, really?
- The GIF Chair publishes its 2023-2025 activity report
- [PhD defence] 20/10/2025 - François Grunewald: "Faced with uncertainty and danger: the role of the 'knowledge-experience' binomial in decision-making in crisis management" (UPR JPEG)
- Julien Robert-Paganin, a former L3 biology student from Avignon, has been awarded the CNRS bronze medal for his work on molecular motors.
- [Event] Fête de la science 2025, from 3 to 13 October: "Intelligence(S)".
- [PhD defence] 09/10/2025 - Lorenzo Brocchini: "A dynamic simulation-based approach to improving traffic efficiency and road safety in roundabout corridors" (UMR ESPACE)
- The Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon (LIA), partner of the LOGIE AI project, winner of the France 2030 call for projects "Accelerating the uses of generative AI".
- [PhD defence] 15/09/2025 - Yanis Labrak: "Language Models at the Crossroads of Text and Speech for Health Applications" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 12/09/2025 - Margot Grimonpont: "Deciphering the modes of action of biocontrol agents for white rot in oilseed rape" (UR INRAE PV)
- Seminar - Land Saving Month in Vaucluse
- [Video] ALERT-KNOW project - Alerting the public: is the message clear?
- [HDR Defense] 29/09/2025 - Lise RENAUD - Information and Communication Sciences (UMR CNE)
- [HDR defence] 02/09/2025 - François Lecompte: "Increasing the resistance of vegetable crops to pathogenic fungi by identifying and controlling phenotypic markers, optimising genotype x environment interactions and developing integrated protection methods".
- [PhD defence] 02/09/2025 - Lucas Potin: "Analyse de graphes complexes pour détecter la corruption dans les marchés publics" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 26/08/2025 - Natalia De Freitas Medeiros: "Restoration of open biomes: evidence, gaps and threats associated with tree planting" (UMR IMBE)
- [HDR defense] 16/07/2025 - Alice Château: "Surface of bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group, interaction with the environment and means of control" (UMR SQPOV)
- [PhD defence] 15/07/2025 - Ines Carole KOMBOU SIHOMNOU: "Accusatory and Proactive Model for Cyber Deception" (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defense] 30/06/2025 - Jeanne Vermeirsche: "On the trail of a political Wikipedia" (UPR JPEG/ FR Agorantic)
- OTRart: a European artistic project to raise awareness of the ecological transition through the recycling of agricultural waste
- Discover: "Débranche! A holiday notebook for connected museum-lovers... and critics
- [PhD defence] 24/06/2025 - Cloé JOLY: "Ecology, ethology and parasite dynamics in pastures: the zebra, its gastrointestinal parasites and coprophagous beetles" (UPR 406 - AE - Abeilles et Environnement)
- [Thesis defence] 27/06/2025 - Marion Parisis: "La transposition médiatique des images dans les planétariums numériques : images scientifiques, images de réalité virtuelle et pratiques de médiation. The case of the evolution of stars" (CNE)
- [HDR defence] 18/06/2025 - Christèle Lagier: "De la trajectoire à la carrière. The processual professionalisation of a political scientist" (UPR JPEG)
- Discover the SOSweet project on video : Non-caloric sweeteners: what are the health effects?
- GEOFCAN 2025 Congress
- [Defence of thesis] 20/05/2025 - Thomas Baron: "Study of the evolution of photosynthetic capacity and glycerolipidome in head lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in response to light during post-harvest preservation" (UMR QUALISUD)
- [Defence of thesis] 21/05/2025 - Loïc BOST: "La politique sous les drapeaux. Histoire des expressions et actions politiques des militaires (1800-1852)" (UMR CNE)
- Pint of Science 2025: discover the programme in Avignon
- Launch of the Metaboscope platform website and new logo
- Avignon University welcomed the members of PUI Provence on 25 March 2025
- [Distinction] Mariam ABOULKHOUYOUL, doctoral student at -JPEG, receives the "coup de cœur" award for her performance at CNRIUT 2025
- [PhD defence] 11/04/2025 - Marianne Avignon: "Understanding the mechanisms of decline in kiwifruit orchards in France and finding remedial solutions" (UMR EMMAH, DISCOVE team)
- [HDR defence] 10/04/2025 - Rodolphe Sabatier: "Modelling the capacity of diversified agrosystems to cope with uncertainty" (UR INRAE Ecodeveloppement)
- [PhD defence] 27/03/2025 - Jarod Ducret: "Translating expressive speech" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 07/04/2025 - Émile Melloul: "The effects of irrigation on biodiversity in Mediterranean wine-growing ecosystems" (UMR IMBE)
- Iranian researcher Habib MotieGhader joins ERIT PSII (UPRI) to study the vaccinal effect of UV-C flashes on plants
- [Portraits] On 8 March 2025, discover four women at the heart of the University
- [HDR defence] 14/03/2025 - Rémi VALOIS: "Hydrogeophysics: from structure to hydric properties and hydromechanical parameters of hydrosystems" (UMR EMMAH)
- The Avignon Avignon Computer Laboratory (LIA) at the heart of the "Le Petit Camion" research project
- [Midisciences 2025] Discover the full programme
- The geodata real estate partnership chair (GIF) has put a simulator online dedicated to the "zero net artificialisation" (ZAN) objective.
- [Defence of thesis] 25/02/2025 - Alix Dupont: "Operator strategies for User-Driven Electric Vehicle Charging in Public Spaces" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 24/02/2025 - Hugo Fontes: "How can the concept of reference ecosystem be used to assess the success of creating temporary ponds in the Camargue?
- [GeEAUde Chair] Coastal and underwater springs: a global database open to scientific contributions
- [Guest researcher] The Centre Norbert Elias (CNE) welcomes Nicolas Navarro
- [Thesis defense] 06/01/2025 - Judith CACERES: "YouTube stars - Elements for an understanding of the celebrity phenomenon of video content creators broadcast on the Youtube platform" (UPR LCC)
- [Defence of thesis] 16/12/2024 - Pierre LE BRUN: "Les logements du capital. Between cities, profits and regulation, an economic geography of private residential development in France (2008-2022)" (UMR ESPACE)
- [Thesis defence] 20/12/2024 - Laure-Hélène Swinnen: "Artistic and Cultural Education at the Festival d'Avignon: birth, existence and resonance with young audiences" (UPR LCC)
- [PhD defence] 20/12/2024 - Omar BOUFOUS: "Correlated Equilibria and Learning" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 13/12/2024 - Tiancheng YANG: "Phenotyping the density of small grain cereal plants at the early stages using optical sensors". (UMR EMMAH)
- [Thesis defence] 20/12/2024 - Cécile SERBOURCE: "Study of the bioturbatory activity and life history traits of enchytreids (Annelida, Oligochaeta) in Mediterranean agricultural soils". (UMR EMMAH)
- [PhD defence] 17/12/2024 - Léna PETIT: "Association of two species of microalgae: Nutritional interest and potential impact on cardiometabolic risk" (UPR LAPEC)
- [Thesis defence] 19/12/2024 - Ondine Le Fur "Landscape as a means of understanding fire risk and involving residents on the outskirts of metropolitan areas: urban planning, risk representations and a participatory approach in a France-Australia comparison." (UMR ESPACE DEV)
- [PhD defence] 16/12/2024- Romane BLAYA: "Response of the structure and temporal dynamics of ant communities to spatial characteristics and habitats on small Mediterranean islands" (UMR IMBE)
- [Thesis defence] 12/12/2024 - Davoud ARJANG MEHR: "Presentation of a conceptual framework and ranking of factors influencing the choice of event tourism destinations in Iran" (UMR ESPACE-DEV)
- [Distinction] Lucas Potin (LIA) and Adrien Deschamps (-JPEG) win the open science prize for research data with the "Base Étendue, Améliorée et Unifiée des Annonces des Marchés Publics" project
- [PhD defence] 09/12/2024 - Arthur AMALVY: "Natural language processing applied to the representation of narrative texts using character networks" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 29/11/2024 - Irène Kinoti: "Remote sensing for the assessment of transboundary groundwater resources - The case of the Stampriet aquifer system (STAS)" (UMR EMMAH)
- [PhD defence] 03/12/2024 - Arnold KOUAM KOUNCHOU: "Jeu de centralité pour la cyberdéception contre la propagation d'épidémies dans le réseau" (UPR LIA)
- [Thesis defense] 10/12/2024 - Odile DELMAS: "CHANSONS POPULAIRES DE LA PROVENCE DE DAMASE ARBAUD, UN COLLECTAGE DANS L'EUROPE DES NATIONALITES" (UPR ICTT)
- Thesis defence] 3/12/2024 - Chloé FELTIN: "Diversité et interactions des phages de Pseudomonas syringae dans un environnement agricole" [Diversity and interactions of Pseudomonas syringae phages in an agricultural environment]. (UPR Plant Pathology)
- [PhD defence] 5/12/2024 - Noé CARLES: "From tsunami warning to population safety in the French Mediterranean: from a scenario-based approach to an agent-based model" (UMR ESPACE)
- [PhD defence] 29/11/2024 - Marie SERRIE: "Adapting Prunus to the reduction in the use of pesticides: identifying the components of resilience and exploiting diversity through association genetics" (UR GAFL)
- [Defense of thesis] 28/11/2024 - Emmanuel KRAVITZCH : "Opinion dynamics in coevolution with adaptive networks" (UPR LIA)
- [PhD defence] 28/11/2024 - Antoine DEJONGHE : "Self-organising networks and learning algorithms for post-5G networks" (UPR LIA)
- Seminar - Cultures and mediations by the Centre Norbert Elias
- Call for doctoral candidates : Sciences en bulles 2025
- [PhD defence] 04/12/2024 - Clémentine Mutillod: "Conceptual, taxonomic and functional approaches to the influence of domestic or 'wild' herbivores on the dry grasslands of the Causse Méjean (Massif Central, France)" (UMR IMBE - EECAR)
- [HDR Defense] 05/12/2024 - Sylvain JAY : "High spatial and spectral resolution remote sensing for environmental characterisation: applications to coastal waters and agriculture" (UMR EMMAH)
Updated on 5 February 2024