Projects

The grants that pay for the work, what each one is for, and who it is shared with.

Funded projects

FANFARES

MIAI Grenoble Alpes chair Co-holder 2026 – 2029

A MIAI Grenoble Alpes chair, held with Nicolas Ducros (CREATIS) and Nicola Viganò (CEA IRIG), on single-pixel and structured-illumination sensing: recovering element-resolved fluorescence maps and full scattering tensors from detectors that cannot form an image. It funds two doctoral contracts to 2029 and anchors the group’s whole computational-imaging programme.

With Nicolas Ducros — CREATIS, INSA Lyon · Nicola Viganò — CEA IRIG MEM

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ROOTS

ANR Coordinator 2023 – 2027

Retrieval of orientation and scattering structure from single-shot modulation data. ROOTS funds the theoretical core of the group: how far the directional dark-field signal can be pushed before the tensor description breaks, and what replaces it when it does.

With AP-HP — Benjamin Salmon · CarMeN laboratory — M. Wiart, C. Capdeville · Université de Toulouse — P. Monsarrat, P. Kemoun

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DREAMLAND

ANR Coordinator

Synchrotron and MRI virtual histology of the human fetus, with the Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences and CHU Grenoble Alpes. The imaging is the easy part; the project is really about building a deep-learning segmentation pipeline that the whole consortium can reuse.

With Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences (GIN) — E. Barbier, M. Barnat · CHU Grenoble Alpes — K. Dieterich, A. Coudert, P.-Y. Rabattu · Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB) — C. Olivier, C. Pohar

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MUSITOX

UGA — Cross-Disciplinary Program Coordinator Phase 2 under renewal

A Université Grenoble Alpes Cross-Disciplinary Program on simultaneous multiscale X-ray microtomography, bringing together around fifty researchers from nine laboratories. MUSITOX is where our imaging methods meet materials, snow, porous media and bone — samples that behave nothing like tissue and break the assumptions accordingly.

With 3SR — soils, solids, structures, risks · SIMAP — materials science and engineering · INRAE · STROBE · LEGI — geophysical and industrial flows · IGE — environmental geosciences · TIMC · Institut Néel · CEN — Centre d'Études de la Neige · Platforms: CMTC, GRICAD

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LINX

Inserm IRP Coordinator

An International Research Project with Monash University and the University of Canterbury — the community that built much of speckle-based imaging. LINX pays for the thing that actually moves methods forward: people spending weeks in each other’s labs, and a workshop in 2027.

With Monash University, Australia · University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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Innovation & transfer

arXimed

Start-up project · in incubation

arXimed takes modulation-based imaging out of the synchrotron hall and onto laboratory and clinical X-ray systems: one inexpensive coded membrane in the beam, and a conventional source delivers phase and dark-field images alongside the usual radiograph. The project grew out of the group’s MoBI work, was matured with SATT Linksium, and won the i-PhD Grand Prix in 2025.