The CNRS Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS) coordinates research at the interface of science, technology and society's requirements. The work of its laboratories focuses on the design, optimization and recycling of complex objects and systems. The research carried out concentrates both on how to obtain these objects and systems and how to operate them in hostile or constrained environments, and on their use for the reasoned development of humanity.
INSIS organization in key words
Environment, energy, health, telecommunications, transport, defence, industry; the aims and systems inherent in INSIS research relate to all types of fields. To meet these major challenges facing society, the Institute leads and coordinates the activities of its laboratories by relying on high-level academic and industrial partnerships.
The research conducted at the INSIS concerns study objects to be designed and optimized, which are still in the process of development at the time when interest focuses on them. This characteristic leads to specific fundamental activities and research into the methods of the engineering sciences themselves. Most of these are contextualized by the evolution of society and its major issues, but also by the needs of industry.
The INSIS is thus committed to developing the disciplinary base of engineering and systems sciences by advancing knowledge, methods and technologies. The Institute advocates an integrative (multi-scale and multi-physical) or systemic approach (taking into account the different subsystems and their interactions).
Most of the study objects tackled by the INSIS laboratories mobilize multidisciplinary corpuses and require interdisciplinary approaches (within the institute or via associations with other institutes).
The INSIS laboratories are mostly co-managed with universities or engineering schools. The latter are partners with strong specific features. CNRS personnel account for a quarter of the permanent staff of the INSIS units, mainly made up of lecturer-researchers, thus ensuring a strong link between research and training.
The INSIS laboratories are heavily involved in the national network of doctoral schools in engineering sciences.
The INSIS maintains close links with various public establishments of industrial and commercial natures (CEA, DGA, Onera, Cnes, CSTB, IRSN, Ifsttar, etc.), making it possible to increase the interdisciplinarity and complementarity of the skills within its laboratories.
The INSIS is highly focused on socio-economic issues. So, over the years it has forged strong partnerships with various players in industry. Priorities are the creation of joint laboratories with major groups (Thales, PSA, Total, etc.) or SME-ETI, encouraging the creation of businesses or the establishment of strategic partnerships, both nationally and internationally. The INSIS is also involved in competitiveness clusters, the Carnot Institutes, technological research institutes (IRT) and institutes for energy transition (ITE).
Like all the CNRS Institutes, the INSIS is supervised by an Institute Scientific Council (ISC), which assists it in implementing its scientific policy. Council members are consulted in the event of disagreement over recruitment and the creation or closure of units.
The work of researchers and laboratories is evaluated by the National Committee for Scientific Research (CoNRS). The INSIS runs three interdisciplinary sections and commissions.
Section 8: Micro- and nanotechnologies, micro- and nanosystems, photonics, electronics, electromagnetism, electrical energy.
Section 9: Solid mechanics, Materials and structurals, Biomechanics, Acoustics.
Section 10: Fluid and reactive media: transport, transfer and transformation processes.
The institute's research also concerns sections 4 (Atoms and Molecules, Optics and Lasers, Hot Plasma Physics), 7 (Information sciences: signals, images, languages, automatic control, robotics, interactions, hardware-software integrated systems) and 28 (Pharmacology Engineering and technologies for health-biomedical imaging).
As the third largest scientific community in the CNRS after the INSHS and the INSB, the INSIS represents more than 16,000 people working in research within several types of structures: joint research units (UMR), joint service units (UMS), research networks (GDR), research federations (FR).
(dont 35 % CNRS)
(doctorants, post-doctorants, contractuels)
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Zento janvier 2020
