Dendritic spines receive most excitatory synaptic contacts in the cortex, and spine morphology shapes the compartmentalization of synaptic signals. The aim of my thesis has been to develop a correlative light-electron microscopy (CLEM) approach in order to quantify the ...

The objective of this thesis is to provide error bounds for linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems arising from electronic structure calculation. We focus on ground-state calculations based on Density Functional Theory, including Kohn-Sham models. Our bounds mostly re...

The increasing number of interconnections in electrical networks and the massive integration of renewable energies nowadays comes with an increase of short circuit currents, and more constraints on high voltage circuit breaker during the current clearance. To solve this...

Several arguments from the literature suggested the importance of diets in cancer development and in the efficacy of anti-cancer therapies. Calorie restriction (CR) suppresses cancer growth in various animal models and sensitizes tumor cells to targeted therapies (Meyne...

La thèse étudie théoriquement et empiriquement la gestion des services écosystémiques par les agriculteurs sous l’angle de la théorie économique. Le concept de services écosystémiques est un concept interdisciplinaire désignant « les services qu’offrent gratuitement la ...

Zoonoses account for 60% of emerging infectious diseases, among which 70% originate from wildlife. Bats host many infectious agents, including viruses responsible for zoonoses in humans such as Ebola, Nipah or Hendraus. For the last two decades, new bat viruses have eme...

This thesis deals with the direct simulation and inverse design of garments in the presence of frictional contact.The shape of draped garments results from the slenderness of the fabric, which can be represented in mechanics by a thin elastic plate or shell, and from it...

This research is devoted to understanding the physical mechanism of cavitation erosion in compressible liquid flows on the fundamental scale of cavitation bubble collapse. As a consequence of collapsing bubbles near solid wall, high pressure impact loads are generated. ...

In this thesis, our focus is to develop signal processing methods to be used on electroencephalography (EEG) signals recorded from epileptic patients. The aim of these methods is to be able to quantify the state of the patient with epilepsy and to study the progress of ...

As a part of interstellar dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in so-called photodissociation regions (PDRs) are processed by the interaction with ultraviolet (UV) photons that are emitted by hot stars. After absorption of a UV photon, an isolated PAH can under...