CNRS Talents: 2 winners of the bronze and silver medals

This year again, the CNRS rewards researchers whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement and influence of research.


In this 2021 edition, two ISTerre researchers were awarded a medal by the CNRS:

Jérôme WEISS

CNRS silver medal winner
CNRS Research Director at ISTerre
Research team : Fault Mechanics


Jérôme Weiss has received the CNRS silver medal which rewards the originality, quality and importance of his work recognized nationally and internationally. Jerome works on the deformation and rupture of materials and disordered systems, from plasticity at nanometric scales to the brittle deformation of ice floes or tectonic faults. His research aims at establishing analogies between these different systems and scales, in order to highlight the fundamental underlying ingredients explaining their dynamics.

Alejandro FERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ

CNRS bronze medal winner
Researcher at ISTerre
Research team: Geochemistry


Alejandro FERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ received the CNRS bronze medal for his very original work on the nucleation and molecular structure of the "amorphous" mineral phases which constitute the precursors of minerals in our environment and play, for some of them, a key role in the trapping of pollutants. To do this, Alejandro has successfully implemented a range of synchrotron radiation spectroscopic methods and theoretical approaches that challenge in a major way our conception of the mechanisms of mineral formation at low temperatures.