Academic research projects

The CITY-STEP project investigates how urban form affects human walking. Using wearable sensors and environmental analysis, researchers aim to understand how city design influences our gait, comfort, and well-being—contributing to healthier, more walkable and sustainable cities.

In many industrial sectors, like aerospace, rail, marine and offshore or even automobile, it’s often less expensive to replace a worn metallic piece than to repair it. This solution, however, require more energy and raw materials than simply repairing. So, how can repairs be made more reliable to become a true alternative to replacement?

The PRAMAG project focuses on atmospheric conditions close to the air-sea interface. It aims to improve our understanding of the microscale dynamic coupling between wind and waves by means of an original observation campaign designed to provide the data needed to make advances in the parameterisation of surface flows and wind profiles.

The project brings together the expertise of two partners (LHEEA and the University of Oldenburg) in wake modelling, hydrodynamics and turbulence, in order to improve the understanding and design of floating wind turbines.

The objective of the i-DAVE project is to propose a knowledge-based and AI-based framework, interoperable in a PLM approach, for the reliability of LCA/ECP studies. This is a dual decision-making aid: 1) Upstream of LCA studies to make the input data robust and configure the LCA/PCF study parameters. 2) Downstream for the exploitation of study results in the definition of the best action plans to reduce the PCF footprint.

In a context of global warming and urban population growth, preventing the health risks associated with heat waves and high exposure to anthropogenic pollutants is a major challenge. The introduction of trees in cities is often encouraged to regulate the urban heat island and improve thermal comfort.

Vincent Lostanlen alongside his team of researchers from the Laboratory of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N) have successfully established the basic technology for a wireless, battery-free acoustic biosensor.

Study of the dynamic, statistical and thermodynamic properties of soliton gases.