DocWalker 2026: Eight PhD students awarded research mobility grants

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Published on January 13, 2026 – Updated on January 16, 2026
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on the January 13, 2026

The Academy of Excellence “Networks, Information and Digital Society” is delighted to offer eight PhD students the opportunity to undertake research stays of one to three months in leading international laboratories.

These stays will allow participants to engage in a new research environment, strengthen their expertise, and establish connections with leading researchers, contributing to the advancement of their thesis work and scientific collaboration.

Congratulations to the laureates!

Laureate Thesis director Laboratory Project Host laboratory
Greta DAMO Elena Cabrio
Serena Villata		 i3S Emotion- and Irony-aware Counter-speech Generation Universitat Politècnica de València, Centre de recherche PRHLT, SPAIN
Franz FRANCO GALLO Lucile Sassatelli
Hui-Yin Ww		 Inria, équipe BIOVISION Adaptive Context Transfer for Real-Time Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Technical University of Munich (TUM), lnstitute of Automotive Technology, GERMANY
Emeline MANKA Théodore Papadopoulos
Samuel Deslaurier-Gauthier		 Inria, équipe CRONOS Traitement et modélisation des données d’enregistrement d'électromyographie de surface London Imperial College, Département de Bio Ingénierie, UK
Romaric MAZNA Jean Martinet i3S/CNRS Développement et implémentation de modèles de vision événementielle sur des cibles matérielles ETH Zürich, D-ITET Center for Project-based Learning, SWITZERLAND
Maya GUY Vincent Vandewall
Benoit Carry		 LJAD/Lagrange Age determination of asteroid families Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Minor Planet Center (MPC), USA
Raphaël RAZAFINDRALAMBO Frederic Precioso
Pierre-Alexandre Mattei
Rémy Sun		 Inria, équipe MAASAI IImproving guidance for diffusion models Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (DTU), DANEMARK
Aryamaan JAIN Guillaume Cordonnier Inria, équipe GraphDeco Learning Augmented Generation of Digital Worlds Purdue University, Department of Computer Science, USA
Margaux SCHMIED Jean-Charles Régin i3S Filtering algorithms for sequence variables UCLouvain, Laboratoire INGI, BELGIUM