The recipients of the 2026 Academy of Sciences awards were announced on Tuesday, October 27. Among them: Yanick Ricard, a researcher at LGL-TPE, and Bruno Salvy, a researcher at LIP. Thumbnail © All rights reserved
On Tuesday, October 27, the Academy of Sciences held its 2026 awards ceremony. Among the recipients of these prestigious awards are two researchers from ENS de Lyon: Yanick Ricard (LGL-TPE) and Bruno Salvy (LIP). We extend our heartfelt congratulations to them and invite you to read their profiles.
Yanick Ricard, recipient of the Dolomieu Prize, established by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS, Lyon Geology Laboratory: Earth, Planets, Environment (LGL-TPE)
Yanick Ricard has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of Earth dynamics. He has successfully used plate tectonic reconstructions to model the current structure of the mantle and to coherently integrate observations from gravity, seismology, mineralogy, and geochemistry. He has proposed a rheological model that explains the presence of plate tectonics on Earth and its absence on other solid planets in the Solar System.
Bruno Salvy, recipient of the Michel Monpetit Prize, National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
Research Director at Inria, Laboratory of Parallel Computing (LIP)
Bruno Salvy, a member of the Pascaline team at LIP, ENS de Lyon, is a specialist in formal computation, a field that studies effective mathematics and its complexity. The field focuses on determining which mathematical computations a computer can perform—and how efficiently. His research focuses in particular on applications to classical analysis (asymptotic analysis and automatic proof of identities for special functions and sequences) and combinatorics. His work thus contributes to the development of algorithmic methods for automating and accelerating certain complex mathematical computations.
