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Understanding and shaping waves to address society’s major challenges

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About

The Smart Waves program brings together multidisciplinary expertise to push the boundaries of intelligent wave research. It explores diverse fields such as optics, acoustics, microwaves, and seismology, with key applications in health, communication, and sustainable development. Since the 2000s, major innovations—such as metamaterials, wavefront shaping, and dense emitter-receiver arrays—have transformed how we control and use waves.

Smart Waves structures these advances around four strategic pillars: understanding wave propagation in complex media, mastering the generation of arbitrary wavefronts, developing quantitative imaging techniques, and designing new materials to make waves more agile.

By fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and driving innovation, Smart Waves aims to position PSL and its institutions as leaders in intelligent wave science.
 

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Smart Waves brings together expertise from multiple disciplines to better understand, control, and harness waves — acoustic, optical, electromagnetic, or seismic — in complex environments.

The main areas of research

Waves and Information

Understanding, quantifying, and harnessing the information carried by waves, especially in complex media and across large-scale source–receiver networks.

Advanced Imaging and Sensing

Developing quantitative imaging techniques to probe both biological systems and inanimate materials with high precision.

Materials and Devices for Agile Waves

Designing innovative materials and systems that enable precise wave control and open the way to new applications in communication, healthcare, and the environment.
 

Schools involved

The Smart Waves Major Program is supported by Université PSL and involves five of its schools: l'ESPCI Paris - PSL, Dauphine - PSL, Chimie Paris - PSL, ENS - PSL et Mines Paris - PSL.
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The Smart Waves team

The members of the Smart Waves program, who support, guide and structure its strategic and scientific implementation. The full list of members can be found on this page.
 

Julien De Rosny

Coordinator and researcher at
ESPCI Paris - PSL

Alexandre Allauzen

Research Professor at Dauphine Paris - PSL

Matthias Delescluse

Associate professor at École normale supérieure - PSL