France-Nokia Chaire d’Excellence 2025-2026

Mansard Nicolas
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Topic: Advancing Reinforcement Learning Toward Foundation Models in Robotics
Host: Aalto University
Grant: 20 000 €

2024-2025

Maxime Pelcat
INSA Rennes, IETR, France
Topic: Ecodesign of Systems-on-a-Chip
Host: Tampere University, Finland
Grant: 17 900 €

2023-2024

Marco Di Renzo
Paris-Saclay University, France
Topic: Metamaterial-Aided Wireless Communications: From Electromagnetic Modeling to Network Optimization and System-Level Validation
Host: University of Oulu, Finland
Grant: 17 200 €

Antoine Doucet
La Rochelle Université, France
Topic: ROBUSTA – Artificial Intelligence for the Robust Analysis of Textual Contents
Host: University of Helsinki, Finland
Grant: 10 000 €

2020-2021

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin
Grenoble Institut Polytechnique, France
Topic: Novel Glass Platform for Telecom Signals Generation
Host: University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Grant: 20 000 €