Sorbonne Université (SU)
Sorbonne Université (SU), Paris, France, is the coordinator of the GENIUS Consortium.
The leader of the Consortium and of the SU team is Guido VALERIO. Julien SARRAZIN co-supervises DC1 and Massimiliano CASALETTI co-supervises DC5.
SU is involved in the WP1 with the co-supervision of DC1 together with THALES, and in the WP2 with the co-supervision of DC5 together with IMST.
Sorbonne Université (SU) is a world-class research university, presenting the comprehensive disciplinary range of arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering and medicine. Close to 10200 of its 55600 students are international and 4400 are in doctoral programs. SU research draws on more than 3400 professor-researchers and another 3100 research partners from major French research organisations.
In addition to Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals and other awards, SU has exceptional transdisciplinary institutes. With 8500 publications per year SU has approximately 10% of all publications in France and receives the largest number of EU grants among French universities: more than 190 H2020 projects, including 65 MSCAs and 30 ERCs. With its research partners, 108 H2020 ERC grantees have been hosted in SU’s laboratories.
SU has adopted the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. SU received the HRS4R award in 2021. It is a member of the European University Association (EUA), the Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA), the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) and the League of European Research Universities (LERU).