Grants Awarded in 2016-2018

2018


Adam Arkin, QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, UC Berkeley
Matthieu Barret, Emersys (Emergence, Systematics and Ecology of plant pathogenic bacteria), INRA - Beaucouzé
Engineering a pathogen-resistant seed microbiome

Jillian Banfield, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Simonetta Gribaldo, Département de Microbiologie, Institut Pasteur - Paris
Combining genome-resolved metagenomics and phylogenomics approaches to unravel the diversity and evolution of the Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) bacteria

Louise Berben, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
Marc Robert, Laboratoire d'électrochimie moléculaire, UMR CNRS - Université Paris 7
Exploring Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Fuels with Small Molecular Iron Clusters

Benjamin Blackman, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Hélène Bergès, CNRGV - Plant Genomic Center, INRA Toulouse
Examining the history and impact of gene content variation in sunflower

Jennifer Bussell, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Christophe Jaffrelot, Centre de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po, Paris
Political Representation in India: The Berkeley-Sciences Po Indian Legislators Project

Danica Chen, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology, UC Berkeley
Mélanie Hamon, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Effects of aging on the immune system and risk of infectious diseases

Jacob Dalton, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Isabelle Charleux, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS-EPHE, Ivry-sur-Seine
Points of Transition: Ovoo and the Ritual Remaking of Religious, Ecological, and Historical Politics in Inner Asia

Daniel Farber, School of Law / Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley
Yannick Perez, RITM, Faculté Jean Monnet: Droit, économie et gestion, Université Paris Sud 11
Electric Vehicle Deployment for Urban Residents: Policy and Lessons Learned between France and California

Daniel Feldman, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Daniel Shulz, CNRS / Institute des Neurosciences, Paris-Saclay
Multiwhisker Features Coding in Mouse Somatosensory Cortex

Mary Firestone, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley
Graeme Nicol, Laboratoire Ampère, Université de Lyon
Determining the interaction of viruses with autotrophic prokaryotic hosts in soil

Teresa Head-Gordon, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Jean-Philip Piquemal, Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Sorbonne Université
Advanced Potential Energy Surfaces for Condensed Phase Simulations: Theory and Applications

Rebecca Heald, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Denis Chrétien, Institut de Génétique et Développement, Université de Rennes 1
Understanding the structural basis regulating the size and architecture of the mitotic spindle

Todd Hickey, Department of Classics, UC Berkeley
Jean-Luc Fournet, Culture Ecrite de l'Antiquité Tardive et Papyrologie Byzantine, Collège de France, Paris
Everyday writing in a literary town: Some rediscovered tablets from late antique Panopolis

Stephen Leone, College of Chemistry / Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de  Physique des Solides, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
Attosecond dynamics in topological insulators

David Limmer, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Benjamin Rotenberg, Laboratoire PHENIX, Sorbonne Université
Understanding energy storage in highly concentrated aqueous salt mixtures

Todd Olson, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley
Anne Lafont, Centre d'histoire et de théorie des arts, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Tabac/Chatbot: Education and Interaction in the Museum Exhibition

Eliot Quataert, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Benoît Cerutti, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, Université Grenoble Alpes
Where General Relativity, quantum electrodynamics, and plasma physics meet: first-principles models of emission from astrophysical black holes

Venkatesan Sundaresan, Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis
Emmanuel Guiderdoni, CIRAD-INRA-SUPAGRO, Université de Montpellier
Synthetic apomixis in rice: Enabling hybrid seeds for smallholder farmers

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
Yves Goddéris, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, Université Toulouse
New paleogeographic models and the onset of a major glacial event in the Ordovician

Alexander Von Rospatt, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Stéphane Gros, Centre d'Études Himalayennes, CNRS, Villejuif
New Directions in Himalayan Studies

Todd Dawson, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Sylvain Delzon, UMR Biodiversité Gènes et Communautés, Université de Bordeaux
Reconciling critical controversies in Plant Hydraulics

G. Mathias Kondolf, Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley
Giacomo Parrinello, Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris
The Social Life of the Sediment Balance: A Social and Geomorphic Approach to the Transformation of River Systems and Deltas

2017


Jeffrey Bokor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Stéphane Mangin, Institut Jean Lamour, Université de Lorraine
Combining Spintronics and All Optical Magnetization Switching

Thomas Courtade, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Max Fathi, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Geometric and Functional Inequalities in Probability and Information Theory

Ian Duncan, Department of English, UC Berkeley
Nathalie Vanfasse, Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone, Aix-Marseille Université
Form across literature and the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain

Alexei Efros, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Mathieu Aubry, Mathematics and Informatics, École des Ponts ParisTech
Automatic exemplar-based correspondences discovery for Art History

Lisa García Bedolla, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
Marie Mallet, Law, Université Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
The Role of Social Assistance Programs in the Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparative Study of Latino Immigrants in France, Spain, and the United States

Thomas Gold, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Sebastian Veg, Centre China, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Political Culture and Archiving Protest in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Leslea Hlusko, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Jean-Renaud Boisserie, CNRS / Université de Poitiers
A new collaboration focused on recently recovered evidence of human evolution from the Omo, Ethiopia

Peter Hosemann, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley
Maxime Sauzay, Département des Matériaux pour le Nucléaire, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay
Mechanical properties on a micro scale bridging the gap between modeling and experiments

Paul Kalas, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Anne-Marie Lagrange, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes
International search for moons and rings around the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

Yury Kolomensky, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Andrea Giuliani, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud
CUPID-Mo: Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Mo-100

Arash Komeili, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Christopher Lefèvre, Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnologies, CEA/CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université
Uncovering the molecular mechanisms of greigite biomineralization in magnetic bacteria

Lori Lubin, Department of Physics, UC Davis
Olivier Le Fèvre, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université
Building the Giants: Cluster Formation and Galaxy Evolution over the Last 12 Billion Years

Mairi McLaughlin, Department of French, UC Berkeley
Benjamin Fagard, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, ENS & Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
French in Comparison: The Comparative Approach from Historical Linguistics to Language Pedagogy

Holger Mueller, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Saïda Guellati-Khelifa, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
LKB-UCB consortium on fundamental physical constants

Saul Perlmutter, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, UC Berkeley
Bruno Latour, Medialab, Sciences Po, Paris
Mapping controversies and conspiracies: Exploring conceptual boundaries and pedagogical practices

Carla Shapreau, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
Christine Laloue, Musée de la musique, Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris
The Economic, Social, and Political World of Violins in the Pre-War and World War II Eras:  Bridging the Archival Gap Between the Musée de la Musique and the Smithsonian Institution Collections

Sug Woo Shin, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Stefano Morra, Mathématiques, Université de Montpellier
On mod p and p-adic Langlands functorialities

F. Dean Toste, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Véronique Michelet, Institut de Recherche de Chimie, Paris
Water-soluble gold complexes in molecular chemistry: towards green chemistry and sustainable development 

2016


Robin Einhorn, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Romain Huret, Mondes Américains, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Political Economy Revisited: American and French Perspectives (19th and 20th centuries)

Marion Fourcade, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Regis Gougeon,  Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin, Université de Bourgogne
The Influence of Academic Research on the Development and Construction of the Winemaking Regions of California and Burgundy (20th-21st century)

Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Thomas Watteyne, EVA Team, INRIA Paris
SHRIMP: Smart Harbor Implementation

Richard Koci Hernandez, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
Valérie Jeanne-Perrier, Department of Journalism, CELSA, Université Paris Sorbonne
Digital Storytelling Workshop

Tsu-Jae King Liu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Louis Hutin, CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble Alpes
3-D Hybrid CMOS/NEMS Technology for Energy-Efficient Electronics

Roya Maboudian, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley
Guillaume Baffou, Groupe Mosaic, Institut Fresnel, Université Aix-Marseille
Plasmon-Assisted Synthesis of Ultra-Precise Designer-Nanoparticles

Brent Mishler, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Willfried Thuiller, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Joseph Fourier / Grenoble Alpes
Phylogenetic Diversity, Endemism, and Conservation of Mediterranean Basin Flora

Linda Morris, Department of English, UC Davis
Ronald Jenn, Department of English, Université de Lille
The "French Marginalia" of Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan or Arc (1895-96) at Berkeley: Patriotism Without Borders

Khalid Mosalam, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Marc Rébillat, PIMM, Arts & Métiers, Campus de Paris
Open-Hardware Platform for Structural Health Monitoring

Michael Nachman, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Frédéric Delsuc, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier
Convergent Molecular Evolution and the Xenarthran Adaptive Radiation

Grace O'Connell, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Frédéric Kolb, Division of Plastic Surgery, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif
Modular Tissue Engineering for Tracheal Reconstruction

Emilija Pantic, Department of Physics, UC Davis
Davide Franco, Neutrino Group, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmopologie, Université Paris Diderot
Argon Recoil Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) Experiment at LICORNE neutron beam

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Department of Materials Science & Engineering / Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Wilfrid Prellier, Laboratoire CRISMAT,  CRNS/ENSICAEN, Université de Caen
Combinatorial Substrate Epitaxy of Oxide Thin Films for Electronic Applications

James Sallee, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Matthias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics, Univeristé Toulouse 1 Capitole
Automobile Emissions Test Manipulation: Implications for Consumer Welfare and the Environment

Eric Stover,  School of Law, UC Berkeley
Jeremy Perelman, École de Droit, Sciences Po, Paris
The Hissène Habré Trial: Challenges and Opportunities for Prosecuting International Crimes in National Courts

Dean Tantillo, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
Fabien Gagosz, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Studies on Gold Catalyzed Organic Reactions

Alexei Yurchak, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Larissa Zakharova,  Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, centre-européen, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Scientific Utopias in the Soviet Union: Fiction, Science, and Power (1917-1991)

Huaijun Zhou,  Department of Animal Science, UC Davis
Elisabetta Giuffra,  GABI (Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative), INRA, Paris-Saclay
Paving the Way for FAANG International Consortium Initiative (Functional Annotation of Animal Genome)

Maciej Zworski, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Laurent Michel, Université de Nice
Semiclassical Study of Randomness and Dynamics