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MIT-France Seed Fund 2008-2009
Grant Recipients

Ground Truthing: Exploring the Social Implications of Real-Time Mapping Endeavors

A collaboration between:

  • Carlo Ratti, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Architecture
  • Antoine Picon, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, France
  • Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, France


Exploration of the Potential of Ionic Liquid Ion Sources for Nanofabrication

A collaboration between:

  • Paulo Lozano, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Jacques Gierak, Research Engineer, CNRS, France


Supercritical Microfluidics for Green Chemistry and Hierarchically Advanced Materials

A collaboration between:

  • Klavs F. Jensen, Professor - Department Head, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Cyril Aymonier, Doctor - Chargé de recherche (CR), CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research), France


Joint Experimental/Theoretical Investigation of Immiscible Element Nanocomposites

A collaboration between:

  • Michael Demkowicz, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Ludovic Thilly, Maître de Conférences, Université de Poitiers, France


Biologically Inspired Flapping Foils For Flow Energy Recovery

A collaboration between:

  • Michael Triantafyllou, Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Franz Hover, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Didier Lucor, Research Associate CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), France


Neuronal Recruitment in Adult Brain Circuits

A collaboration between:

  • Carlos Lois, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Science
  • Pierre-Marie Lledo, Director of the Lab, Pasteur Institute, France


Elasticity and Interfaces

A collaboration between:

  • Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Sunghwan Jung, Instructor, MIT Department of Department of Mathematics
  • Benoit Roman, CNRS, France


Tracking the Rule of Law: A Ten Nation Study of Legal Consciousness

A collaboration between:

  • Susan Silbey, Professor, MIT Department of Anthropology
  • Jerome Pelisse, Maître de conférence; Chercheur l’Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne; ENS Cachan, France


Self-Locating Beliefs: New Empirical and Conceptual Approaches

A collaboration between:

  • Alex Byrne, Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
  • Robert Stalnaker, Professor, MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
  • François Recanati, Directeur de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Supérieure (CNRS), France