Every year, IRISA sees its members rewarded with international prizes and awards.

Our European Research Council Grant (ERC) Winners

The ERC encourages research of the highest quality in Europe through competitive funding and supports investigator-initiated frontier research in all disciplines on the basis of scientific excellence. Eight scientists have been supported for the quality of their research in our laboratory (from left to right on the picture):

2024: Nicolas Keriven, CNRS researcher, member of SIRROCO/COMPACT team
2022: Maud Marchal, professor INSA Rennes, member of the Rainbow team
2017: David Pichardie, professor ENS Rennes, ex-member of the CELTIQUE team
2016: Stéphanie Delaune, CNRS Research Director, member of the EMSEC team
2015: Christine Guillemot, Inria Research Director, member of the SIRROCO team
2013: Hervé Jegou, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the TEXMEX team (today LINKMEDIA)
2012: Rémi Gribonval, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the PANAMA team
2010: André Seznec, Inria Research Director, member of the PACAP team
2007: Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Inria Research Director, ex-member of the ASAP team

Members of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF)

Many of our scientists have been selected to be members of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF).

2025 : Charlotte Pelletier, professor, Université de Bretagne Sud, member of the OBELIX team (a)
2024: Gildas Avoine, professor, l’INSA Rennes, membrer of the SPICY team (b)
2023: Angeliki Kritikakou, associate professor, Université de Rennes, member of the TARAN team (c)
2023: Maud Marchal, professor, INSA Rennes, member of the RAINBOW team (d)
2023: Pierre-Alain Fouque, professor, Université de Rennes, member of the CAPSULE team (e)
2023: Jean-Marc Jézéquel, professor, Université de Rennes, member of the DIVERSE team (f)
2022: Walter Rudametkin, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the DIVERSE team (g)
2021: Mathieu Acher, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the DIVERSE team (h)
2019: Élisa Fromont, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of the LACODAM team (i)
2018: Maud Marchal, professor INSA Rennes, member of the HYBRID team (d)
2014: Gildas Avoine, professor INSA Rennes, member of EMSEC team (b)
2013: Pierre-Alain Fouque, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of EMSEC team (e)
2010: Michel Raynal, professor Université de Rennes 1, member of WIDE team (j)

Other prestigious awards

Jean-Marc Jezequel, professor at University of Rennes, was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2026.
Teddy Furon, a research director at Inria, was awarded the Inria–Académie des sciences–Dassault Systèmes Innovation Prize in 2025.
Xavier Lagrange features in Stanford University’s 2025 ranking, which lists the world’s most influential researchers.
Sandrine Blazy, professor at the Université de Rennes, was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2022
Claudio Pacchioretti, CNRS researcher, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2022
Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS researcher, was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2020.
Paolo Robuffo Giordano, CNRS Research Director, was awarded the Michel Montpetit Prize - Inria by the French Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Anatole Lecuyer, Inria Research Director, received the IEEE VGTC award for technical achievements in virtual reality in 2019.
Jean-Marc Jezequel, professor Université de Rennes 1, was awarded the médaille d'argent du CNRS in 2016

Numerous prizes and awards which, year after year, highlight the expertise of our scientists

The impact of their scientific contributions is attested by numerous awards around the world (Test Of Time Award, Best paper Award, Most Influential POPL Award...), and by a thousand publications each year, most of them in conferences and journals with the strongest impact factors in the digital domain. And some of our scientist are fellows from international learned societies such as ACM or IEEE