Prizes and distinctions: Academic distinctions
Landmark projects
International awards, scientific honours, and disciplinary panels: this section highlights researchers whose work is regarded as a benchmark in their field. It showcases the university’s scientific excellence through awards that are highly regarded within the academic community.
Latest awards
- IUF 2026: Four lecturers and researchers from UT Capitole named IUF laureates22 May
Toulouse Capitole University is delighted to announce that four of its academic staff members—Catherine Casamatta, Florent Garnier, David Martimort and Mathias Reynaert—have been named among the recipients of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) awards for 2026. [ + ]
- More effective AI for detecting anomalies, recognized internationally6 May
Researchers from IRIT have just received the Springer IDA 2026 Frontier Prize, which recognizes the most innovative contribution to data analysis at the Intelligent Data Analysis 2026 scientific conference. The paper, authored by researchers from the School of Computer Science at the Toulouse Capitole University, ranked first out of 102 submissions. This work proposes a new approach to making artificial intelligence more effective at detecting anomalies in complex data. [ + ]
- Umberto Grandi, Professor of Computer Science and member of IRIT, winner of an ERC Synergy grant5 Nov
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced funding for a scientific project led by Umberto Grandi, a lecturer and researcher at Toulouse Capitole University. The ADDI (Advancing Digital Democratic Innovation) project has been awarded an ERC Synergy grant worth over €9.8 million. [ + ]
- Genetic programming: Sylvain Cussat-Blanc's research work wins prestigious Humies Award23 Sep
The article, co-authored by Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, a member of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT-UT Capitole/CNRS/UT3/UT2/Toulouse INP), and the team led by Salvatore Valitutti, a researcher at the Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (CRCT-Inserm/CNRS/UT3), was awarded the prestigious Humies Awards at the GECCO 2024 international conference. The prize was awarded in recognition of the work carried out jointly by the two laboratories. [ + ]
- Jean Tirole, researcher and Honorary President of TSE, awarded an ERC Advanced Grant1 Mar
Jean Tirole, Honorary President of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), a component of UT Capitole, has just received his third "Advanced Grant" from the European Research Council to finance his research project entitled "Harmony within Society". [ + ]
Pierre-André Chiappori: Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize 202314 DecPierre-André Chiappori, laureate of the 2023 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize. [ + ]
- Meeting with Munyque Mittelmann, IRIT alumni and laureate of the Artificial Intelligence Thesis Prize, AFIA 202312 May
Munyque Mittelmann, former IRIT PhD student, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 prize of the French Association of Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) for her thesis "Logics for Representation and Design of Auctions". Discover the portrait of this young researcher! [ + ]
- Aurore Gaillet, professor at the Faculty of Law, laureate of the 2022 prize of the Bonnefous Foundation - Institut de France13 Feb
Aurore Gaillet, Professor of Law at IRDEIC, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 prize of the Édouard Bonnefous Foundation - Institut de France for her book "La Cour constitutionnelle fédérale allemande. Reconstructing a democracy through law (1945-1961)". [ + ]
- Andrew Rhodes, Professor of Economics at TSE awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant3 Feb
Andrew Rhodes, professor at Toulouse School of Economics, awarded a European Research Council grant for his project "Data and Market Power in the Digital Economy". [ + ]
- Mathias Reynaert awarded the Malinvaud Prize11 Jul - 31 Aug
Mathias Reynaert, assistant professor at TSE, received the Malinvaud 2022 Prize. [ + ]
- ERC Grant awarded to Jean-Charles Rochet9 May - 31 May
Congratulations to Jean-Charles Rochet (chercheur associé TSE, SFI Professeur à l'Université de Genève (Geneva Finance Research Institute), who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research project DIPAMUTA- DIGITAL PAYMENTS, MULTIDIMENSIONAL TAXES. [ + ]
- Ingela Alger awarded 2022 CNRS silver medal8 Apr - 30 Apr
- Emmanuelle Auriol receives Antitrust Compliance Award 202118 May
Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, and Tina Søreide won the Academic Award of the 2021 Antitrust Compliance Awards for their article: Deterring corruption and cartels: In search of a coherent approach, published in Concurrences Review in 2017. [ + ]
- Pascale Zarate honored with GDN INFORMS Section Award12 Jun
The Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) section of the International Federation of Operational Research and Management Science Society (INFORMS) awarded Pascale Zaraté, ADRIA team, the June 12th 2018 at the University of d’Aeronotics et Astraunotics, Nanjing, China during the annual international conference GDN organized under the authority of the GDN-INFORMS section [ + ]
- Marianne Andries, winner of the 4nations cup 20185 Jun - 12 Dec
Marianne Andries (Toulouse School of Economics) and Guillaume Vuillemey (HEC) won the 4nations cup 2018. [ + ]
- A new ERC Starting Grant awarded to Renato Gomes28 Jun
Congratulations to Renato Gomes who has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his research project PLATFORM "Competition and Regulation of Platform Markets". [ + ]
- The 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Science goes to Jean Tirole13 Oct - 13 Nov
Jean Tirole has just been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in economic science for his work on the theory of market regulation. [ + ]
- Hanan Qazbir: European Public Law Organisation winner26 Sep - 26 Oct
Hanan Qazbir, researcher-lecturer in public law at IDETCOM has been awarded the EPLO prize for her thesis entitled “Internationalization of Constitutional law” completed under the supervision of Prof. Henri Roussillon. [ + ]
- Jean Tirole one of the world's "most influential minds" by Thomson Reuters7 Jul - 7 Aug
An international study identifies TSE President Jean Tirole as one of the world’s most influential scientific minds of 2014 [ + ]
- EDF & TSE win prestigious EFMD “Excellence in Practice” award9 Oct - 9 Nov
EDF & Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) are delighted to announce that they are prize-winners of the 2013 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Excellence in Practice (EIP) awards, in recognition of their outstanding learning & development programme “Corporate Turnaround: Focusing, Aligning and Building for Success”. [ + ]
- François-Xavier Millet: winner of the 2013 Constitutional Council prize17 Sep
François-Xavier Millet who has just joined our academic staff as assistant professor has been awarded the prize granted by the Constitutional Council for his thesis entitled “The European Union and the constitutional identity of member states” [ + ]
- Mathieu Ferré wins the International Trophy of the Young Tax Professional of the Year29 Aug - 29 Sep
Mathieu, second year student of the Master’s Degree in fiscal law has come through the 2013 international final of the Trophy of the Young Tax Professional of the Year with flying colours. [ + ]
- Tiger Forum 2013: Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize awarded to Eric Maskin10 Jun
The 2013 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize has been awarded to the egregious American economist Eric Maskin who was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in 2007. [ + ]
- Mathieu Ferré wins the French Trophy of the Young Tax Professional of the Year31 May - 30 Jun
Mathieu Ferré : Student in the Master’s Degree of fiscal law [ + ]
2012 Legal Book Award15 Sep - 31 OctMichel Leroy and Marc Iwanesko were awarded the 2012 Legal book prize of the year at the "Place au Droit" fair for their book : "Clause bénéficiaire en assurance-vie" (Life insurance beneficiary clause) [ + ]
- Awards for TSE economists18 Jun - 22 Jun
The Kuhmo Nectar annual conference of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA) about transportation economics brings together international researchers working on all aspects of transportation economics, including infrastructures and rural and urban planning. [ + ]
- 11 Scientific Awards for the UT1 researchers in 20113 Jan - 22 Nov
A great number of awards and subsidies are regularly granted to UT1 researchers, thus valorizing their scientific work, their research team and their establishment. [ + ]
- Christian Gollier awarded The 2024 Harris Schlesinger Prize for Research Excellence
Christian Gollier has been awarded the Harris Schlesinger Prize for Research Excellence 2024 for his article “Pandemic economics: optimal dynamic containment under uncertainty and learning”. [ + ]
