Nathan Lichtlé receives the Paul Caseau Award

Nathan Lichtlé, a doctorate graduate of the School, is the 2025 winner of the Paul Caseau Prize in the category “Decarbonization of the Economy.” His thesis, “Stabilization and control of dynamic systems: from classical methods to reinforcement learning,” was completed at the School's CERMICS (Center for Teaching and Research in Mathematics and Scientific Computing) under the supervision of Amaury Hayat, professor at CERMICS, and Alexandre Bayen, professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Paul Caseau Prize, created in 2012 by the French Academy of Technologies and EDF in memory of Paul Caseau, is awarded each year to young doctors who defended their thesis the previous year, for work of scientific excellence that is original and open to industrial applications. It covers three main areas: decarbonization of the economy, operation and resilience of electrical systems, and high-performance digital modeling and simulation.

The awards ceremony was held on January 14, 2026, at the Del Duca Foundation (Institut de France), as part of the partnership between EDF and the French Academy of Technologies, with the support of the Institut de France and the French Academy of Sciences.