General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-25-0374
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
X-ray diffusion assisted by Artificial Intelligence: the problem of the representativeness of synthetic databases and the indistinguishability of predictions.
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The advent of artificial intelligence makes it possible to accelerate and democratize the processing of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) data, an expert technique for characterizing nanomaterials that allows to determine the specific surface area, volume fraction and characteristic sizes of structures between 0.5 to 200 nm.
However, there is a double problem around SAXS assisted by Artificial Intelligence: 1) the scarcity of data requires training the models on synthetic data, which poses the problem of their representativeness of real data, and 2) the laws of physics stipulate that several candidate nanostructures can correspond to a SAXS measurement, which poses the problem of the indistinguishability of predictions. This thesis therefore aims to build an artificial intelligence model adapted to SAXS trained on experimentally validated synthetic data, and on the expert response which weights the categorization of predictions by their indistinguishability.
University / doctoral school
Sciences Chimiques: Molécules, Matériaux, Instrumentation et Biosystèmes (2MIB)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
CARRIÈRE David
david.carriere@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
Bât.125
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
0169085489
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
CARRIÈRE David
david.carriere@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
Bât.125
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
0169085489
En savoir plus
https://iramis.cea.fr/nimbe/lions/pisp/david-carriere/
https://iramis.cea.fr/nimbe/lions/