2024-04-01 14:40:13
Anne Canteault, cryptography researcher. François Bouchon / Le Figaro
PORTRAIT – The cryptologist was awarded the Joliot-Curie prize awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
It would be a very traditional break room, if it weren’t for this whiteboard filled with equations. On a coffee table, next to the coffee machines, are crosswords, the favorite pastime of the scientists who work here, at the National Institute for Research in Digital Sciences and Technologies (Inria). The premises, which border the railway tracks in the heart of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, are not particularly welcoming. In a few months, the teams will move to the 13th arrondissement on Butte-aux-Cailles. « It is kind of a shame »regrets Anne Canteaut, research director at Inria, who chaired the institute’s evaluation commission from 2019 to 2023. « Because, if we are a little cramped, the spatial organization encourages exchanges between us. Where we are going there will be less open space. » This sense of collectiveness is perhaps what best characterizes the woman who received the Joliot-Curie women’s prize at the beginning of March…
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