Research projects

Research at Centrale Nantes is conducted using an interdisciplinary approach centred on four key areas: renewable energy production and management; carbon-free mobility; sustainable materials, processes and industrial systems; and engineering for health. Within each of these areas, several research projects are being carried out in the school’s laboratories.

Renewable energy production and management

• GENIUS project on the production, storage and use of green hydrogen
• FloatFarm - Next Generation Floating Wind Farms (2024 - 2027)
• Marinerg-I - Marine Renewable Energy Distributed Research Infrastructure (2023 - 2026)
• PRAMAG - Atmospheric profiles in rough seas
• Florida - Interactions and Wake Dynamics of Floating Wind Turbines

Carbon-free mobility

• DENSE - Dependable Smart Energy Systems
• MANN+HUMMEL Centrale Nantes Chair
• Construction of the first hybrid sail/synthetic fuel powered container ship: the MERVENT 2025 project
• Ampère Chair (Renault Group) - Centrale Nantes “Performance of electric propulsion in motor vehicles”
• Bureau Veritas - Centrale Nantes Chair
• TETReIS Industrial research chair: MOLDTECS - Centrale Nantes
• HyMot project to decarbonise light commercial vehicles
• Everllence (formerly MAN Energy Solutions) - Centrale Nantes Joint Laboratory
• Joint Laboratory of Marine Technology: Naval Group, Centrale Nantes and Nantes Université

Sustainable materials, processes and industrial systems

• X-MESH - An eXtreme Mesh deformation method to follow sharp physical interfaces (2023-2029)
• MAAsive - Manufacturing As A Service To Increase Resilience in Value Networks (2024 - 2027)
• Forvia Faurecia - Centrale Nantes Chair
• SAMSARA - Repairing rather than replacing with metal 3D printing
• LIGEROB: Towards Mobile Collaborative Robots to Ease the Burden of Industrial Work
• PRIIC MER & PRIC ICE
• i-Dave: Data-Knowledge Integration to improve the reliability of LCA projets in the enterprise of the future
• SEALENCE Industrial Chair
• Centrale Nantes & Siemens Digital Industries Software chair on numerical simulation applied to fluid mechanics
• GENYDROGENE: a smart hydrogen energy pathway for societal challenges
• EDYCEM - Centrale Nantes Chair

Engineering for health

• CITY-STEP: How city design shapes the way we walk
• Homi Lung - Alterations of host-microbiome interactions and the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory medical conditions after sepsis (2024 - 2028)
• SYNAPSE: How can we better understand the brain using imperfect data?
• PercuCob: cobotics for safer, more precise medical gestures
• MILCOM Project: Develop machine learning methods for the acquisition, annotation and analysis of medical images

The projects presented below do not directly relate to the major issues mentioned above, but they also play a vital role within the School. They demonstrate the open-mindedness of our researchers and the diversity of their research.

• CITRY - Contribution des arbres au microclimat et à la dispersion de polluants en milieu urbain de l’échelle locale à la ville
• Concept de biocapteur acoustique sans fil et sans batterie
• SOGOOD - Gaz de solitons en optique et en hydrodynamique

See the list of completed research projects here.