Paul Charkaluk, winner of the IP Paris PhD Call for Projects

Paul CHARKALUK, a school's PhD student at Laboratoire Navier, is one of the four winners of the IP Paris PhD Call for Projects.

He was rewarded for his project "Eco-innovative Seismic Dampers: Design of eco-innovative shape memory alloy dampers for the seismic protection of infrastructure". The technology holds potential for defence equipment and protection systems, energy dissipation during impacts, and more broadly in the fields of energy storage and aerospace.

His project will benefit from €15,000 in funding to support a three-month extension of the PhD, allowing time to be dedicated to the program as well as a structured support program led by the IP Paris Innovation Lab, together with SATT Paris-Saclay, organized into three phases: analyzing the current positioning of the technology within its ecosystem, projecting the technology into future scenarios and defining a concrete roadmap and action plan for its implementation.

1st edition of the IP Paris PhD Call for Projects

Launched in December 2025, and led by the IP Paris Innovation Lab, this call aims at encouraging second-year PhD students to envision the impact of their thesis by 2040 thanks to a forward-looking innovation approach based on design fiction.

This call is part of a broader ambition to bridge fundamental research with innovation and valorization challenges for PhD students and supports the next generation of disruptive innovation Through this program, the selected candidates will explore the potential societal transformations enabled by their technology, build a coherent and meaningful systemic vision, and consider the diversity of career paths after their PhD.

Through this program, the selected candidates will explore the potential societal transformations enabled by their technology, build a coherent and meaningful systemic vision, and consider the diversity of career paths after their PhD.

By supporting PhD students during their doctoral journey, IP Paris aims to foster the emergence of tomorrow's technologies and applications, while helping PhD students shape their professional paths.

This initiative has received government funding, including: ANR-22-EXES-0013 and the PUI IP³ as part of France 2030.