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Collagen: a key to preserving historical parchments

Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, CNRS research director at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB*), IP Paris, Gaël Latour, Senior lecturer, University of Paris-Saclay, Researcher at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB*), IP Paris

Invasive species: solutions to the economic burden

Christophe Diagne, Post-doctoral researcher in Dynamics of Biodiversity and Macroecology at Université Paris Saclay, Boris Leroy, Senior Lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)

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“There is no one right way to manage innovation, it’s about organising the menagerie!”

Rémi Maniak, Professor at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (I3-CRG)*, Nicolas Mottis, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management at the Centre for Management Research of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (I³-CRG*) at the École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Are cognitive biases compatible with the scientific method?

Patrice Georget, Lecturer in psychosociology at the University School of Management IAE Caen

Quantum computers: how do they work?

Landry Bretheau, Lecturer in quantum physics at École Polytechnique in the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics (PMC*)

Diving into the minds of musicians to uncover new learning strategies

Pierre Legrain, CNRS Research Director in perception and memory at Institut Pasteur

Plastic waste: the need to act quickly before we are submerged

Isabelle Méjean, Head of economics department at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Best young French economist 2020, Julien Martin, professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Quebec in Montréal (ESG-UQAM)

Crossing a wormhole: reality or science fiction?

Guillaume Bossard, Lecturer in physics at École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

China and the race for technological supremacy

Nigel Inkster, Senior Advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

New Zealand: the first tobacco-free generation?

Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Professor in Social Marketing at EHESP and member of the Haut conseil de santé publique