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With 140 years of history, a renovation project for its Parisian campus, a 5-year strategy, involvement in the PSL University, and commitment to ecological transition, the years 2022-2023 have been filled with projects and achievements for ESPCI Paris – PSL in fulfilling its missions of education, research, innovation, and student life.

Guillaume Pakula, the ’Founder’ of Projet Celsius, a scientific and educational consulting firm specializing in environmental issues, graduated from ESPCI in 2016. In January 2023, he conducted a highly successful course on ecological transition within the school.

Invented over a century ago, it certainly is the most common clinical examination: each one of us already had its blood pressure measured using an inflatable cuff and a stethoscope. However, the fundamental principle of this measurement remained until now a mystery in the world of physics. Researchers from the Institute Physics for Medicine Paris (Inserm, ESPCI Paris-PSL, CNRS – France) have solved this enigma by studying in details the mechanical phenomena occurring in the arm when blood pressure is measured. The results are published on October 4th 2023, in frontpage of Science Advances.

Three minutes to convince, no more! Falling Walls is a renowned international academic competition where verbosity has no place. Competitors face off through very short 3-minute speeches presenting their research topics and work. A jury composed of professionals from the academic world then deliberates to determine the winner, who will be offered a spot in the competition finals in Berlin next month. We offer you a summary of the projects that caught the jury’s attention.