The University of Lille and its partners have pooled their major scientific facilities and infrastructures to make them more accessible to the academic and private sectors.
Platforms
The University of Lille has accredited 50 platforms, which are organised around 10 themes and made accessible to the academic and private sectors to accelerate tomorrow’s discoveries.
National and international platforms
The platforms are key to positioning the Lille site at the highest international level and strengthening research partnerships with the socio-economic and cultural sectors. They cover all research topic areas in Lille. Many are recognised as facilities of excellence and are involved in national and international networks.
Expertise for the public and private sectors
The platforms provide the expertise of researchers, engineers and technicians in the use of cutting-edge equipment and the provision of services. They also provide access to databases and the computing resources needed to process them.
The topic areas
Animaleries Multi-site platform for rodents and aquatic models
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Platforms
- PLEHTA
- EOPS
- PHExMAR
Competencies
- Organisms, models and resources for research in biology and health
- LNSB2 - LNSB3 containment laboratory, infectious models
- Breeding and housing mice in ESPO environment
- Aquatic models: fish and amphibians
- ESPO status rat housing
- Behavioural and metabolic exploration
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
ARIADNE Criblage High-throughput, high-content screening platform
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Competencies
- The HCS (high-content, high-throughput screening) robotised platform specialises in multiparametric screening based on photon detection. The screening process can be carried out in biosafety Level 2 and 3 containment laboratories;
- Dedicated HTS (high-throughput screening) platform for automated screening and multimodal reading.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Florence Leroux
Technical director: Manoly Wacheux
Contact:
Campus Pasteur Lille
Bât. Institut de Biologie de Lille (HCS)
Bât. Debeyre (HTC)
Lille
florence.lerouxpasteur-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
Bilille Lille bioinformatics, bioanalysis and biostatistics platform
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Competencies
- Omics data analysis (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metagenomics, epigenomics, etc.)
- Annotation of genes, genomes and proteins
- Phylogeny
- Systems biology
- Structural bioinformatics
- Integrative biology
- Analysis of high-content screening data
Missions
- Supporting user units’ scientific projects
- Developing analysis pipelines and databases
- Training
- Providing high-performance computing resources
- Science and technology events
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Guillemette Marot
Technical co-directors: Pierre Péricard and Jimmy Vandel
Contact:
Cité Scientifique - Bât. ESPRIT
Campus Pasteur - Bât. Calmette
Campus Hospitalo-universitaire - Pôle recherche, Faculté de Médecine
bilille@univ-lille.fr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
Partner: Inria Lille Nord Europe
BICeL BioImaging Center Lille platform
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Competencies
It brings together resources and expertise in cellular, tissue and small animal imaging (rodent and aquatic models), cytometry and flow imaging, and photonic and electron microscopy
- Theoretical and practical training in specific techniques for platform users
- Assistance with sample preparation and selection of the right system for the scientific problem
- Assistance with data acquisition
- Help with data analysis and interpretation
- Management of all or part of a study project (preparation, immunolabelling, data acquisition, data analysis) as part of our service offering
- At biosafety level 2: 1 cytometer analyser, 1 cytometer sorter, 1 spinning disk with live SR
- 3D deconvolution image restoration service
- Expertise in high-resolution intravital imaging of small animals: a multiphoton confocal microscope (optical chamber and explant imaging) and a Lumina XR small animal whole-body imager available in the animal facility
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Frank Lafont
Contact:
Campus Hospitalo-universitaire
Campus Pasteur
Campus Cité scientifique
frank.lafontcnrsfr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
GO@L Genomics platform
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Platforms
- The Transcriptomics and Applied Genomics (TAG) platform specialises in microbiology applications
- The Functional and Structural Genomics (FSG) platform, which is part of the Lille University Hospital’s Centre de Biologie Pathologie Génétique, is developing its expertise in human genomics associated with targeted pathologies (cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, etc.) and the study of animal models.
Competencies
- ‘Whole genome’ genomics: WGS, WES, amplicon-seq, Tn-seq, CGH-arrays
- Transcriptomics: RNA-seq, sRNA-seq, dRNA-seq, NGS-RACE, qRT-PCR, RNA-seq full-length, micro-arrays, DGE, single-cell
- Metagenomics: targeted amplicon-seq 16S-ITS
From conducting experiments to supporting teams, the platform provides expertise in processing the generated data:
- Genomic assembly, characterisation and annotation, variant detection and annotation, Mendelian transmission studies
- Differential expression analysis, unsupervised analysis
- Taxonomic assignment, diversity assessment (α and β), dysbiosis measurement
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific co-directors: Martin Figeac and David Hot
Contact:
Institut Pasteur de Lille (TAG)
Centre de Biologie Pathologie du CHU de Lille (GFS)
genomique-plbsuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
Life imaging and functions
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Rodent platform
Equipment
- Imaging area equipped with a 7 T micro-MRI scanner
- Small animal micro-PET-CT
- Behavioural and functional explorations enabling evaluation of rodent pathophysiological models in terms of cognitive abilities, motor disorders and traits of anxiety/depression
Expertise
- Quantifying biological phenomena using relaxometry, scattering and MR spectroscopy
- Morphological exploration of organs using MRI
- Data processing and development of IT tools for preclinical medical imaging
Human platform
Equipment
- 3T MRI dedicated to research activities on the premises of Lille University Hospital
- MRI-compatible EEG system
- Esys fMRI system
- Computing cluster
Expertise
- Demonstrating the structural organisation of the brain: volume and surface analysis, morphometry, diffusion/tractography imaging mapping, perfusion imaging
- Extracting functional organisation: task-specific activation, brain at rest: brain networks, functional connectome
- Statistical analysis, data processing and development of IT tools (statistics, signal processing or artificial intelligence) related to imaging.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Jean-Pierre Pruvo
Technical director: Renaud Lopes
Contact:
Campus Hospitalo-Universitaire, Pôle recherche, Faculté de médecine (rodent platform)
Hôpital Salengro, CHU de Lille (human platform)
renaud.lopesuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
PAGés / P3M Glycomics and proteomics platform
This platform is part of theUAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
Platforms
- PAGés: the only French platform dedicated entirely to analysing the structure of glycans and complex sugars
- P3M: specialised platform for proteomic and modified protein analysis
PAGés competencies
- Glycan structure analysis
- Multi-technique approaches: NMR, mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography and sugar chemistry
P3M competencies
- Proteome identification through nanoLC-MSMS and use of databases
- Quantification with or without marking
- Study of post-translational modifications (PTM)
Active collaboration between PAGés and P3M enables us to develop a comprehensive analysis of glycans, peptidoglycans and the whole glycoprotein. A glycoproteomic approach to the study of biological molecules
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific and technical co-directors: Nao Yamakawa and Jean-Michel Saliou
Contact:
Cité scientifique, Bât. C9 (PAGés)
Campus Pasteur, Bât. Roux (P3M)
platform-pagesuniv-lillefr (PAGés)
jean-michel.salioupasteur-lillefr (P3M)
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
Eurasport Translational research platform on the interactions between physical activity, sport and health
Competencies
- Energy balance: physical activity (quantitative and qualitative), nutrition, body composition
- Performance assessment
- Motor skills assessment
- Physical activity and energy expenditure assessment
- Respiratory function assessment
- Cardio-circulatory and vascular function assessment
- Biological analysis
- Physical activity/training sessions and programmes: healthy and pathological populations
- Measurements on site and under ecological conditions
- Motor exploration laboratory for mouse models: in vivo and in vitro functional approaches
- Muscular physiology: cellular and molecular, in vivo and in vivo functional approaches
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Serge Berthoin
Technical director: Adrien Combes
Contact:
413 Avenue Eugène Avinée
59120 Loos
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille
LIGAN PM Lille’s next-generation genome sequencing platform
Competencies
- Illumina sequencers
- Robotic library preparation
- High-throughput sequencing
- Transcriptomics project
- Methylation analysis
- Bioinformatics and biostatistics analysis
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Amélie Bonnefond
Technical director: Bénédicte Toussaint
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille University Hospital
Contact:
EGID
HENRI-WAREMBOURG Faculty of Medicine
Pôle Recherche : 1, place de Verdun
59045 LILLE CEDEX - France
Organomics Mass spectrometry for omics
Competencies
- Mass spectrometry for biology, health, clinical and food industry applications.
- Large-scale non-targeted (bottom-up and top-down) or targeted (SRS) proteomic analysis, quantitative analysis with or without labelling.
- Sample preparation from cells, tissues, organoids, spheroids, biological fluids, extracellular vesicles and exosomes.
- Dynamics of post-translational modifications, identification of proteins from unsequenced genomes, proteogenomics, study of protein-protein interactions (cross-linking MS, BioID).
- Mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI, DESI) on frozen or fixed tissue samples (FFPE) and spatial proteomic analyses.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific directors: Isabelle Fournier and Marie Duhamel
Technical directors: Soulaimane Aboulouard and Antonella Raffo Romero
Contact:
Bât SN3, bureau 113
Campus cité scientifique
organomicsuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, Inserm, Lille University Hospital
OrgaLille Lille organoid research platform
Competencies
- Developing digestive organoids
- Establishing annotated collections of paired tumours and normal organoids
- Providing original, life-like study models in line with a policy of reducing the use of animal models in basic research
- Proposed real-time analysis systems for studying physiological and pathological cellular mechanisms.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Audrey Vincent
Contact: orgaresuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Realcat High-throughput screening for catalyst development
This platform is part of the engineering technology platform for chemistry and materials (Plateforme technologique d'ingénierie pour la chimie et les matériaux; PTICM).
Competencies
- High-throughput transfer of routine low-throughput chemistry and biology laboratory activities
(catalyst synthesis, calcination, cell culture, measuring
antimicrobial activity, proteomics, etc.) - Evaluating performance of biological (enzymes and fermentations) and chemical (homogeneous and heterogeneous) catalysts using automated high-throughput systems
- Synthesis of high-throughput biological
(recombinant enzymes and new microbial strains) and chemical (homogeneous and heterogeneous) catalysts - Structural and compositional characterisation of high-throughput biological and chemical
materials
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Sébastien Paul
Technical director: Svetlana Heyte
Contact:
Ecole Centrale Lille
Campus Cité Scientifique
CS 20048
Boulevard Paul Langevin
59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
+33(0)3 20 33 54 57
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Under the administrative supervision of: Centrale Lille, Chimie Lille, CNRS, IMT Lille-Douai, INRAE, INRIA, Junia, Artois University, University of Liège, University of Lille, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Advanced characterisation platform
The advanced characterisation platform offers its academic and industrial partners expertise and know-how in chemical and/or structural analysis. Hosted by the Institut Chevreul (Chemistry-Materials Sector), it is made up of 8 instrumental clusters and is the site of numerous methodological and technological developments, ensuring that it remains at the highest level of performance. The advanced characterisation platform promotes and supports partnership research through services and collaborations. It also organises training activities for its academic and industrial partners.
Divisions
- NMR - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Scientific director: Laurent Delevoye - MEMR - Magnetism and Electronic Magnetic Resonance
Scientific director: Hervé Vezin
Technical director: Ahouari Hania and Minaud Claire - LEMP - Lille Electron Microscopy Platform
Scientific director: Damien Jacob
Technical director: Jean-François Dhenin - D2RX - X-ray Diffraction
Scientific director: Pascal Roussel
Technical director: Frédéric Capet - Surface Analysis
Scientific director: Jean-François Paul
Technical director: Nicolas Nuns and Pardis Simon - Vibrational Spectroscopy
Scientific director: Isabelle De Waele
Technical director: Myriam Moreau - Mass Spectrometry
Scientific director: Ahmed Mazzah - ICP - Plasma Torch Spectrometry
Scientific director: Gabriel Billon
Technical director: David Dumoulin
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Competencies
- Characterisation of materials in controlled environments
- Study of molecules and condensed matter (NMR, EPR, XRD, electron microscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, surface analysis, ICP, mass spectrometry, etc.)
- Chemical, structural or microstructural analysis of samples
Directed by: Isabelle De Waele
Contact: isabelle.de-waeleuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
PTICM Engineering technology platform for chemistry and materials
Divisions
- REALCAT - High-throughput screening cluster for catalyst development
Scientific director: Sébastien Paul
Technical director: Svetlana Heyte - UPCAT - Specialised tools for the synthesis, activation, regeneration and shaping of heterogeneous catalysts
Scientific director: Sébastien Royer
Technical director: Jérémy Dhainaut - PPTS - Powder processes and technologies
Scientific director: Nouria Fatah - HT-SMARTFORMU - High-throughput formulations
Scientific director: Véronique Rataj
Technical director: Christel Pierlot - FIRE-RESIST - Reactions and fire resistance of materials
Scientific director: Serge Bourbigot
Technical director: Johan Sarazin
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Competencies
- High-throughput catalytic screening
- Scaling-up and shaping of heterogeneous catalysts
- Powder processes and technologies
- Development of high-throughput formulations
- Measurements of material reactions and fire resistance.
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille
Carmine Mineralogical, granulometric, organic, physical and optical characterisation of natural materials (sediments, soils and rocks) and industrial materials
Competencies:
- Mineralogical analysis of whole rock or clay fraction
- Laser particle size analysis
- Organic analysis (CHNS and COT)
- Calcimetry
- Magnetic fraction separation
- Optical characterisation (SEM, optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy)
Scientific director: Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles
Technicaldirector: Marion Delattre
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Contact:
CARMIN platform
LOG - Building SN5
Cité Scientifique - University of Lille
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
viviane.roumazeillesuniv-lillefr
Website: in progress
MiHX Lab Marketing and Societing Lab
Competencies
- Exchange and transfer between the worlds of business and academia
- Hosting marketing research and studies with a wide range of methodologies (qualitative and/or quantitative studies)
- State-of-the-art physiological behavioural measurement technologies
- Wide-ranging marketing and consumer issues
- Distribution issues and new business challenges
- Supporting companies in their transition to responsible, social and sustainable development marketing policies
- Development of theoretical, methodological and practical training for incubators
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Maud Herbert
Contact:
Blanchemaille, Euratechnologie
4ème étage
87 rue du Fontenoy
59 100 Roubaix
mihx.adm@gmail.com
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille
B2RM Regional Mathematics Research Library
Competencies
- Acquisition and preservation of publications and subscriptions to databases and periodicals (paper and electronic) required for mathematical research.
- Preservation of IREM and Formation des Maîtres collections relating to mathematics teaching.
- Access to resources: on-site consultation, borrowing or electronic access, based on the terms and conditions set out in internal regulations.
- Training initiatives (preparation for the capes and agrégation competitive exams) and dissemination of mathematics.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Antoine Touzé (Director)
Technical director: Hélène Dehaudt
Contact:
Bât. M2
Campus Cité Scientifique
59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
bibmathuniv-lille1fr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Lille Mesocentre High-Performance Computing Centre
Competencies
- Supercomputers
- Research in numerical simulation and supercomputing
- Training and support in the use of computing and/or storage resources (cluster job submission, mass storage, etc.)
- Parallel programming
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Nouredine Melab
Technical director: Matthieu Marquillie
Contact:
Bâtiment M4 - Bureau 40
Campus Cité Scientifique
59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille
Pharo A set of tools for developing complex IT applications
The Pharo platform is a pure object programming language and a powerful environment that focuses on simplicity and immediate feedback (think of an IDE and an OS rolled into one). Pharo has unique pedagogical properties and is used worldwide by 40 universities to teach object-oriented programming. Pharo is used by 20 international research groups. Pharo’s development is supported by a
a 46-member industrial consortium.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Stéphane Ducasse
Technical director: Esteban Lorenzano
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, Inria
4Maat Platform for mechanical, multiphysical and multiscale characterisation of materials and structures
Competencies
- Multiaxial, multiphysics, multiscale, mechanical testing in a controlled environment
- Tribology (friction- and braking-induced mechanisms)
- Tests ranging from the microstructural to the structural scale: tensile micro-machine under scanning electron microscopy, rotating bending bench on 1/4-scale and full-scale axles
- Instrumentation (infrared and visible cameras, etc.)
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Thomas Rougelot and Nathalie Limodin
Technical director: Arnaud Beaurain
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale de Lille
ISIS 4D Innovative in-situ testing under X-ray imaging
Competencies
- Regional X-ray imaging platform
- In-situ testing under microtomography
- Characterisation of the 3D microstructure of materials subjected to complex loads
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Thomas Rougelot and Nathalie Limodin
Technical director: Jérôme Hosdez
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale de Lille
PIMS Materials and surface engineering platform
Competencies
- Casting and controlled solidification of metallic materials
- Development of friction materials (filled polymers)
- Additive manufacturing of metals and ceramics
- Characterising the microstructures of metallic and ceramic materials
- Characterising the thermal and thermomechanical properties of materials
- Characterising surface topography
- Electrochemical characterisation of surfaces
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Denis Najjar
Technical directors: Arnaud Beaurain and Jean-François Witz
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille
Plex Experimental platform for turbulence
Competencies
- Unique testing facilities for studying wall turbulence at high Reynolds numbers and flow control
- Expertise in optical metrology (PIV) and hot-wire anemometry
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Jean-Marc Foucaut
Technical director: Christophe Cuvier
Contact: jean-marc.foucaut@centralelille.fr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale de Lille
Carmine Mineralogical, particle size, organic, physical and optical characterisation of natural materials (sediments, soils and rocks) and industrial materials
Competencies:
- Mineralogical analysis of whole rock or clay fraction
- Laser particle size analysis
- Organic analysis (CHNS and COT)
- Calcimetry
- Magnetic fraction separation
- Optical characterisation (SEM, optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy)
Scientific director: Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles
Technicaldirector: Marion Delattre
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Contact:
CARMIN platform
LOG - Building SN5
Cité Scientifique - University of Lille
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
viviane.roumazeillesuniv-lillefr
Website: in progress
CARS ACTRIS Center for Aerosol Remote Sensing
Competencies
- Atmospheric aerosol metrology using passive and active remote sensing
- AERONET photometric network operator
- Operator of a national lidar network
- Operator of solar calibration platforms at Mauna Loa Observatory (Hawaii, USA) and Observatoire de Haute Provence (OHP, France) and radiometric platforms (LOA, Lille).
- Instrument development in house and together with industrial partners (AGORA-Lab shared laboratory)
- Support for scientific campaigns, including implementation of mobile systems
- Algorithm development for photometric and lidar data processing
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Philippe Goloub
Technical directors: Luc Blarel and Thierry Podvin
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Cerla Lasers and Applications Study and Research Centre
Competencies
- Surface chemical analysis by mass spectrometry/laser desorption
- Analysis and measurement of environmental trace species using laser diagnostics
- Photonics
- Non-linear optics
- Methodological developments for healthcare / chemometrics
Scientific director: Xavier Mercier
Technical director: Marc Le Parquier
Contact:
University of Lille
Avenue Paul Langevin
Cité scientifique
59655 Villeneuve d’ascq Cedex
Phone: +33(0)320 337 718
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille
UAR ICARE Data centre and services - Earth observation space data
Competencies
Exploitation of ‘aerosols, clouds, radiation and the atmospheric water cycle’ data from Earth observation space missions and atmospheric observation networks.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Jérôme Riedi (Director)
Technical director: Nicolas Pascal
Contact: icare-contact@univ-lille.fr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, CNES
MéOL Lille Optical Metrology
Competencies
- Laser diagnostics in reactive media (Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS))
- Laser-Induced Incandescence (LII)
- Infrared Absorption by Tunable Diode Laser (TDLAS) or Quantum Cascade Laser (QCLAS)
- High-Speed Fluorescence after Gas Expansion (FAGE)
- Optical metrology of fluid flows (Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV))
- StereoPIV (3 velocity components in a plane)
- TomoPIV (visualisation of 3 velocity components in a volume) with or without time resolution
- Training academic and industrial staff in optical metrology
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific directors: Nathalie Lamoureux and Christophe Cuvier
Technical directors: Amaury Lahccen and Pierre Braganca
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale de Lille
Serres Greenhouse, cultivation and experimental site platform
Competencies
- Production and maintenance of research and teaching materials.
- Experimentation with different levels of climate control (cold and hot greenhouses, grow rooms and chambers).
- Experimentation in semi-natural conditions on landscaped outdoor areas (experimental sites).
- Monitoring instrumented devices in natural sites.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Saumitou-Laprade Pierre
Technical director: Nathalie Faure
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
IrDIVE Research and innovation in digital and interactive visual environments
Competencies
- Historical and social construction of the visual: analysis of the role and place of the visual in contemporary and past societies, taking into account not only the associated material, social, political and cultural aspects, but also the human dimension in scientific debates and technological and digital developments.
- Perception and visual cognition: study of the phenomena involved in the visual exploration of a scene, perception and interaction with the objects that surround us, and the individual affective experience provoked by visual content.
- Modelling, visualisation and interaction: development of methods for analysing and classifying complex data obtained from visual devices such as video, multispectral images, three-dimensional data (3D/4D) or heterogeneous data from electrophysiological sensors.
- Arts, science and technology: creating synergy and collaboration between artists and scientists, with the aim of working together to produce objects that are both works of art and the results of scientific research.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Technical director: Mohamed Ladrouz
Scientific directors: Yann Coello and Laurent Sparrow
Contact:
99a Boulevard Descat
59 200 Tourcoing
contact-irdiveuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
PIRVI Interaction, virtual reality and image competencies cluster
Competencies
- Pooling of equipment and R&D engineering for the development of Cross-Reality (XR) devices and applications.
- Immersive auditorium and experimentation and demonstration areas equipped with various virtual reality, mixed reality and tactile and gestural interaction devices.
- Services and technical and scientific competencies to support and further develop multidisciplinary projects involving advanced visualisation and interaction technologies, from feasibility studies to operational prototypes (TRL 6).
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Technical director: Samuel Degrande
Scientific director: Laurent Grisoni
Contact:
IRCICA
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne
50 avenue du Halley
59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
contact-pirviuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
PUDL Lille University Data Platform
Competencies
- Helping parties to identify and access quantitative data
- Helping parties to use data with specialised methods and software
- Providing information about data and events
- Raising awareness of data usage and issues (data management plan, GDPR, etc.)
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Technical director: Ada-Marlen Chmilevschi
Scientific director: Héloïse Petit
Contact:
Maison européenne des sciences de l'homme et de la société
2 rue des Canonniers
BP 80217
59 002 Lille Cedex
pudlmeshsfr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
FiberTech Lille Fibre Optics
Competencies
- Design, production and characterisation of special optical fibres and fibre components
- Applications in telecommunications, lasers, sensors, silica micro-fluidics, etc.
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Technical director: Andy Cassez
Scientific director: Géraud Bouwmans
Contact:
IRCICA
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne
50 Avenue Halley
BP 70478
59658 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
PCMP Multi-physics characterisation platform for micro/nano devices, high-frequency components and communicating systems
Divisions
- Near-field microscopy
Technical director: Dominique Deresmes - Electrical characterisation of microwave components and microsystems
Technical director: Sophie Barois - Measuring electromagnetic interactions
Technical director: Lamine Kone - Characterisation of communication systems
Technical director: Rédha Kassi
Competencies
- Characterisation of components or micro-devices (manufactured in our micro/nanofabrication plant) and systems.
- Observation and manipulation of nano-sized objects
- Monitoring of technological processes, growth and characterisation of materials and nanostructures at nanometric or atomic scale
- Evaluating the behaviour of electronic components or subsystems over a wide frequency range (up to THz)
- Electrical characterisation and imaging of microsystems and nanodevices
- Electromagnetic interactions between electronic/electrical equipment and their electromagnetic operating environment over a wide frequency range (kHz to 20 GHz)
- Evaluating the performance of wired and wireless communication systems (5G, IoT, THz, optical, etc.)
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Christophe Lethien
Contact:
IEMN, Plateforme PCMP
Campus Cité Scientifique
Avenue Henri Poincaré
CS 60069
59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
christophe.lethienuniv-lillefr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
Website under construction
CMNF Micro/nanofabrication plant
Divisions
- Depositing
- Lithography
- Engraving and Implantation
- In-Line Analysis
- Bio-Microfluidics
- Renatech project hosting
- Transdisciplinary integration and prototyping
- Transdisciplinary maintenance
Competencies
- Technological manufacturing of micro-devices and electronic components
- Depositing of materials, structuring of these materials by lithography/engraving and in-line analysis
- Bio/microfluidics and soft lithography activities
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Technical director: Bertrand Grimbert
Scientific director: Christophe Lethien
Contact:
IEMN, Plateforme CMNF
Campus Cité Scientifique
Avenue Henri Poincaré
CS 60069
59 650 Villeneuve d’Ascq
bertrand.grimbert@univ-lille.fr
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS
eV Electricity and vehicles
Competencies
- Development and validation of new subsystem concepts for electrified vehicles (electric and hybrid)
- HiL (hardware-in-the-loop) tests involving different storage systems (batteries, supercapacitors)
- Testing of electrical machines (conventional, polyphase), power converters (inverters, power supplies, chargers, etc.)
- ‘System’ characterisation of electrified vehicles (electrically-assisted bicycles, segways, electric vehicles, metros, etc.)
- Instrumented vehicles and charging stations for the interdisciplinary CUMIN programme at the University of Lille (TVES, CRIStAL and MEL collaboration): driving and usage cycle data
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Alain Bouscayrol
Technical director: Walter Lhomme
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille
PRETIL Lille robotics and intelligent transport research platform
Competencies
- Mobile robotics
- Medical robotics
- Deformable robotics
- Collaborative robotics
- Autonomous vehicle
- Monitoring
- Operational reliability
- Middleware and embedded real-time systems
- Indoor and outdoor test tracks available for full-scale validation of intelligent vehicles
For further details, please consult the detailed information sheet.
Scientific director: Maan El Badaoui El Najjar
Technical director: Gérald Dherbomez
Under the administrative supervision of: University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale de Lille, Inria
Major facilities
The University of Lille leads or participates in major national and international research infrastructures, as well as facilities of excellence (Équipex+).
Research infrastructure
Research infrastructures are facilities, resources or services that are used by researchers to carry out their work and promote innovation in their own scientific fields. Most are organised and run on a national or even international scale. University of Lille takes part in 11 research infrastructures.
Actris France Observation and exploration of aerosols, clouds and reactive gases
ACTRIS-FR is the French component of ACTRIS, the European initiative for the observation and exploration of aerosols, clouds and reactive gases and their interactions. ACTRIS is a distributed research infrastructure supporting research into the climate and air quality. It improves our understanding of the past, present and future evolution of atmospheric composition.
Infrastructure manager: Paolo Laj
Lille platform involved: CARS-ACTRIS
ChemBioFrance Chemistry, biology and cheminformatics
ChemBioFrance is designed to promote and energise exchanges at the interfaces of chemistry, biology and cheminformatics in order to develop new strategies for the discovery and development of bioactive molecules for the benefit of researchers in both the public and private sectors.
ChemBioFrance is also creating a collection of standardised (quality control and use protocols) and validated (accepted model for a given human pathology, infection, parasite, etc.) targets, distributed based on the national chemical library model. ChemBioFrance offers scientific and technical solutions to optimise development (TRL 2-6) and increase the success rate in the pre-commercial and commercial phases (TRL 7-9) of new molecules.
Infrastructure manager in France: Jean-Luc Galzi
Lille platform involved: ARIADNE – Criblage UMS 2014 PLBS
Data Terra Data and service cluster for the Earth system
The main mission of Data Terra ‘data and service clusters for the Earth system’ is to develop a global system for accessing and processing data, products and services enabling integrated observation, understanding and forecasting of the history, functioning and evolution of the Earth system in the face of global change. Aimed at the scientific community as well as public and socio-economic actors, these multi-source data, products and services can be accessed via a unified, coherent portal.
It is based on four data clusters corresponding to each of the major compartments of the Earth System:
- THEIA for continental surface data (agriculture, forests, biodiversity, etc.)
- AERIS for atmospheric data (gases, aerosols, clouds, etc.)
- ODATIS for ocean data (marine altimetry, phytoplankton, pigmentation, etc.)
- ForM@Ter for solid earth data (volcanoes, erosion, tectonics, etc.)
Infrastructure managers: Frédéric Huynh
Lille platform involved: UMS ICARE
France Génomique
France Génomique offers the public and private scientific community access to the best French platforms, project support and the opportunity to participate in international projects.
The infrastructure provides cutting-edge expertise in genomics and related bioinformatics, and competitive genomics and bioinformatics services in coordination with the IFB. The aim is to guarantee France’s independence in areas that are more strategic than ever for life sciences research.
Infrastructure manager: Patrick Wincker
Lille platforms involved: LIGANPM, GO@L and Bilille de l’UAR 2014 - US 41 PLBS
France Grilles Computing
The France Grilles national distributed computing infrastructure is multi-disciplinary, open to all disciplines and to developing countries. Its main missions are:
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Establishing and operating national cloud and production grid infrastructures for processing and storing large amounts of scientific data;
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Contributing, together with the other member states involved, to the operation of the European EGI infrastructure (www.egi.eu) and defining the terms of French participation in the EGI.eu association, which coordinates the EGI federation;
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Promoting closer ties and exchanges between teams working on production and research grids.
Infrastructure manager: Vincent Breton
Lille platform involved: Lille Mesocentre
Huma-Num Humanités numériques (digital humanities)
The TGIR’s main mission is to build, together with the communities involved and based on scientific guidance, a world-class digital infrastructure for the social sciences and humanities.
Through consortia that bring together parties from the scientific communities and a network of points of presence in the human sciences centres (maisons des sciences de l’Homme; MSH), it structures support for HSS scientific communities with respect to digital infrastructure for research data.
Infrastructure manager in France: Olivier Baude
Lille research unit involved: MESHS
Infranalytics Characterisation and chemical analysis
At the beginning of 2022, Infranalytics will be a multi-technique, multi-site national research infrastructure (RI) resulting from the merger of three French RIs dedicated to chemical characterisation and analysis:
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Ultra-high field nuclear magnetic resonance(UHF – NMR)research infrastructure
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National interdisciplinary electron paramagnetic resonance network(RENARD)
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National ultra-high field FT-ICR mass spectrometry network(FT-ICR)
Infranalytics will offer academic and industrial actors access to state-of-the-art spectrometers, as well as scientific expertise and technical support for a wide range of experiments in the fields of health, the environment, energy, materials and the food industry.
Lille platforms involved: The institut Chevreul’s Advanced Characterisation Platform for Chemistry’sNMR, MEMR and mass spectrometry clusters.
IFB Institut Français de Bioinformatique (French Institute of Bioinformatics)
The Institut Français de Bioinformatique is a national bioinformatics service infrastructure. Its main mission is to provide basic resources in this field to the life sciences community. The various services offered by IFB platforms can be grouped into 5 main categories:
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Data: providing high added-value data collections based on laboratory expertise
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Tools: disseminating innovative tools for analysing laboratory-generated biological data
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Training users in bioinformatics techniques and concepts
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Supporting biologists’ research projects in bioinformatics analysis
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Infrastructure: providing an IT infrastructure dedicated to the management and analysis of data produced by the life sciences.
Infrastructure manager: Claudine Médigue and Jacques van Helden
Lille platforms involved: Bilille de l’UAR 2014 - US 41PLBS, Lille Mesocentre
PROGEDO Data production and management in the humanities and social sciences
PROGEDO is the central player in ministerial policies concerning the production and management of data in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). The infrastructure’s mission is to develop a data culture and raise the level of national structuring of research communities by rolling out a development strategy shared by research organisations, major institutions and universities, and to strengthen France’s position in the European research area.
To this end, PROGEDO organises support for the collection, documentation, preservation and dissemination of a vast array of data required for research in the social sciences and humanities, and helps set up secure micro-data access systems. PROGEDO also supports major international surveys and provides access to a number of foreign HSS databases.
Infrastructure manager: Pascal Buleon
Lille platform involved: PUDL
RENATECH Réseau National des grandes centrales Technologiques (National Network of Major Technology Centres)
Renatech is the French academic network for cutting-edge equipment in the field of micro- and nanotechnologies. Its aim is to develop, maintain and provide a competitive infrastructure for research and R&D in micro- and nanofabrication in France, working with both academic and industrial customers.
Our manufacturing plants are located all over France to guarantee the proximity you need to carry out your projects.
Infrastructure manager: Michel de Labachelerie
Lille platforms involved: Micro/nanofabrication plant and the IEMN’s Multi-Physics Characterisation Platform’s near-field microscopy cluster
SILECS Internet of Things, Internet of Servers, wireless networks and interconnected networks
SILECS is a large-scale scientific tool for extrapolating, observing and validating models, algorithms and technologies for these large-scale systems. It focuses on four aspects: the Internet of Servers, the Internet of Things, wireless networks and interconnected networks. It consists of an instrument and software tools that provide access to a wide variety of advanced computing resources of varying sizes. Researchers and industrialists will be able to test, observe and analyse models, algorithms and solutions.
Infrastructure manager in France: Frédéric Desprez, Serge Fdida
Lille platform involved: Lille Mesocentre
Équipex+
Équipex+ are nationwide facilities whose main vocation is scientific research, and which represent French scientific leadership. The University of Lille is involved in 9 Equipex+ projects which have been awarded funding under the Programme d'investissements d'avenir (PIA 3).
Add4P Additive manufacturing of glasses and photonics components
The Add4P EquipEx+ focuses on the additive manufacturing of glasses and photonics components, with objectives including performance gains, weight reduction, increased mechanical and thermal resistance of parts, original design of new functions and more.
Local contact: Marc Douay
Participating platform in Lille: Fibertech Lille
CONTINUUM Collaborative continuity from digital to human
Continuum aims to create a ‘collaborative continuity from digital to human’ by developing interdisciplinary research between computer science and the humanities and social sciences. The project brings together equipment such as huge screen walls, immersive rooms and virtual or augmented reality headsets, spread across 30 platforms. This equipment is used in particular to visualise complex scientific data and to create virtual environments, for example to study and cure phobias, or to design historical reconstructions.
Local contact: Yann Coello
Participating platform in Lille: Irdive
GAIA Data Data and services for observing and understanding the Earth system
The GAIA Data project aims to develop a data and services infrastructure for observing and understanding the Earth system, biodiversity and the environment.
The GAIA Data project brings together three digital research infrastructures in the field of Earth and Environment systems: Data Terra organises integrated access to observation data covering the different compartments of the earth system and their interactions, CLIMERI-France produces international numerical simulations for the WCRP (to be specified) and makes their results available to various users in France and abroad, and PNDB,the national biodiversity data centre, brings together existing data approaches within the living earth researchinfrastructures.
Local contact: Jérôme Riedi
Participating platform in Lille: ICARE
MesoNET Mesocentre network
The MesoNET EquipEx+ will meet the needs of academic and industrial researchers through the development of structuring digital equipment, with the long-term objective of setting up a distributed infrastructure dedicated to the coordination of HPC-AI(High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence) in France via a network of mesocentres.
Local contact: Matthieu Marquillie
Participating platform in Lille: Lille Mesocentre
MuDiS4LS Shared digital spaces for life sciences
The EquipEx+ MuDiS4LS (Mutualised Digital Spaces for FAIR data in Life and Health Science) project is supported by the Institut Français deBioinformatique.
The overall project is structured around 4 work packages:
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Orchestrating data flows for life sciences.
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Distributed data infrastructure for project-life-long secured storage and backup.
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Data access and outreach.
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Intensive Computational Biology (Access to national HPC/AI resources).
which are complemented by 5 implementation studies:
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Imaging data integration and FAIR sharing.
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Marine biology data integration and dissemination.
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Bioinformatics solutions to handle health data.
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FAIR Integration and sharing of new data deluge in microbiome research.
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Integration and FAIR sharing of genetic and multi-omics data for agriculture.
Local contact: Guillemette Marot
Participating platform in Lille: Bilille
NANOFUTUR Nanotechnologies
The NANOFUTUR Equipex+ has identified the facilities needed to remain competitive and meet the nanomanufacturing and nanotechnology challenges of the coming decade. The themes of the future in which French expertise is highly competitive are:
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photonics, evolving towards on-chip integration of more varied functions for information processing – including quantum information and artificial intelligence
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spintronics, which promises a major reduction in power consumption in the digital world
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teraHertz technologies, which will be rapidly deployed after 6G or 7G for ultra-high-speed wireless communications
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nanobiotechnologies, which will provide a better understanding of how living organisms function and enable ultra-miniature medical devices to be implanted in human beings, (5) sensors, which will be increasingly ubiquitous in the future in the Internet of Things. Finally, a fundamental underlying challenge common to all of the above
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‘Nano-manipulation and nano-assembly’ will enable the assembly of ultra-pure nanometric layers for performing new, hitherto inaccessible functions. The chosen equipment is often unique in Europe, and will be the only equipment of its kind in France that is accessible to all.
Local contact: Christophe Lethien
Participating platform in Lille: Centrale de Nano-Micro Fabrication de l’IEMN
OBS4Clim Integrated observation system for the atmosphere
EquipEx+ OBS4CLIM is the result of a concerted innovative effort by the three French components of the national nodes of the European Research Infrastructures (RI) in the atmospheric field: the ESFRI ACTRIS project, the ESFRI IAGOS Landmark and the atmospheric component of the ESFRI ICOS Landmark.
OBS4CLIM is developing a common strategy for the implementation of services aimed at strengthening the integration of ‘atmospheric RIs’ and their synergies through, for example, innovation, shared use of equipment and harmonisation of access conditions.
The aim of OBS4CLIM is to provide atmospheric RIs with adequate investment to continue serving users whilst providing the highest level of quality for the next 15 years. Furthermore, OBS4CLIM will enable us to respond to new needs, such as making the most of networks’ four dimensions (longer, uninterrupted time series, synergies with observations from space, a more global and denser network in specific regions, intelligent specialisations, etc.).
Participating platform in Lille: CARS-ACTRIS
Local contact: Phillipe Gouloub
TIRREX Technological Infrastructure for Excellence in Robotics Research
The TIRREX (Technological Infrastructure for Excellence in Robotics Research) EquipEx+ coordinates the development of and access to key new robotics platforms at national level. Parties involved in robotics research are brought together in this project, which is structured around six focus areas and three transdisciplinary focus areas. Alongside prototyping and design, and manipulation, the third transdisciplinary focus area will be open infrastructures, in order to guarantee and standardise access to free data, software and publications (digital twins, FAIR data and open source software). The TIRREX infrastructure, which is supported by more than 50 companies or networks of companies, will give the academic community, including members of the Groupement de Recherche (GDR) Robotique (Robotics Research Group), access to top-level, world-class equipment.
Local contact: Maan El Badaoui
Participating platform in Lille: PRETIL
T-REFIMEVE European Fibre Metrology Network
The aim of the T-REFIMEVE Equipex+ is to make available to the scientific community and industry a complete set of time and frequency signals at the best international standard that metrology research units can provide, taking advantage of the exceptional precision of atomic clocks and the guided propagation of optical fibres. More than 30 research units and institutes throughout France will be connected. Other research units in the region will be able to connect easily in the future. This set-up is unmatched anywhere in the world.
Local contact: Arnaud Mussot
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