Departmental Prize for Research in Provence 2025

Celebrating the richness and scientific excellence of our region

The Prix Départemental pour la Recherche en Provence celebrates the richness and scientific excellence of our region by rewarding the work of researchers in the exact, human, social and medical sciences. These prizes highlight work that is cutting-edge, but essential for the future, and which contributes to Provence's influence and attractiveness.

Three departmental prizes are awarded each year:

• The Grand Prix is awarded to an active researcher and/or research team for outstanding results or achievements that have enabled them to acquire a certain notoriety;
• The Prix Jeune Chercheur is awarded to a researcher under the age of 40, and recognizes the new research perspectives they have opened up within their discipline.
• The Special Prize is intended to highlight an outstanding discovery or result obtained by a researcher and/or a research team in a new theme defined by the Department: "Biodiversity, invasive and harmful species: finding solutions in the face of global warming".

Pierre Milpied, winner of the Grand Prix 2025

Pierre Milpied works at the Marseille-Luminy Immunology Center (CIML) (amU/CNRS/Inserm). He has been rewarded for his research at the interface between immunology, genomic oncology and bioinformatics. His work aims to decipher the biology of B lymphocytes, the cells that produce antibodies.

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Pierre-André Garambois, winner of the Prix Jeune Chercheur 2025

Pierre-André Garambois is an INRAE Research Associate atUMR RECOVER (amU/INRAE). He was awarded the Prix Jeune Chercheur for his work, carried out over more than a decade, on modeling surface hydrology flows, from their genesis on slopes to their propagation in hydrographic networks and flood plains.

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Guillaume Marchessaux, winner of the Prix Spécial 2025

Guillaume Marchessaux is an IRD researcher at the Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO) (amU/CNRS/IRD/Université de Toulon). He was awarded the special prize for his research into one of the major ecological threats in the Mediterranean: the invasion of the American blue crab.

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