Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

OVERVIEW
Relevant bibliometric data
Another way to measure the
repercussions of the Nanosciences
Foundation’s collaboration guidelines is to
study the cross fertilization between its 2
major entities: INAC and NEEL. A
bibliometric study of their co-elaborated
publications, supported by the
NanoINNOV program, was achieved in
March 2011 by Simon JUMEL, Master
student at Stendhal University, and
Laurent LÉVY, Professor of Physics at
University Joseph Fourier.
INAC and NEEL have co-published 129
papers within the 2006-2010 timeframe.
Plenary talks will be given to introduce
these topics and Don MARTIN will close
the session with a talk describing his
project funded by the Foundation. In
conclusion of this workshop a prize will
be attributed for the best poster of each
topic.
In order to animate and broaden this
community, the Organizing Committee
also aims to set up regular seminars, to
be given by top-level scientists in visit in
Grenoble. The Nanosciences Foundation
will announce and support these
seminars, such as the one given by
Michael SHEETZ, Director of the
Mechanobiology Institute of Singapore,
on April 29 th , 2011.
Fig. 5: Number of publications resulting from
collaborations between INAC and Institut Néel
The annual amount has grown by a factor
4 between 2006 (prior to the genesis of
the Nanosciences Foundation) and 2010.
The ‘nano-bio’ working
group strengthens rapidly
The working group “Nano in life sciences”
organized a very successful workshop on
‘Nano and micro environment for cell
biology’ on November 25 th , 2010. More
than one hundred attendants went to the
Institut Albert Bonniot to listen to
presentations exclusively given by young
researchers (Master students, PhD
students, Post-doctoral fellows…).
The great enthusiasm crystallized in this
meeting improved the awareness of the
local community of biologists working
closely with physicists. A committee of 5
scientists (from IAB, LMGP, LIPhy and
iRTSV) emerged and decided to keep
alive the spirit of this first meeting by
organizing on June 24 th , 2011 a new
workshop mainly based on posters
presentation, in order to encourage once
again the participation of the younger.
This day will be dedicated to three topics:
Design of nano and
microstructured materials for cell biology
Cell interactions with materials of
controlled properties
Biomimetic systems
Fig. 4: Michael SHEETZ was the prestigious
orator of the successful ‘Nano-Bio’ seminar on
April 29th 2011.
A rising visibility online
The website is the main information tool
that allows the Foundation to display its
results, its events, its recruitment ads
and its scientific funding programs to a
local, national or international audience.
Statistics of the website’s frequentation,
highlighting the visitors’ country of origin,
the time spent on the visiting pages, the
way followed to reach the website…
provide accurate information to establish
the growing attractiveness and visibility
of the Foundation across the world.
The following graphs and maps help us to
figure out the audience reached through
the Foundation’s efforts to communicate
through various channels:
Emailing to local, national and
international contacts
Quarterly newsletter
Announcements via French
embassies, online portals (EURAXESS,
naturejobs.com, sciencecareer.org) and
advertisements in specialised media
(Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters)
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