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Sandrine Layrisse, winner of the CNRS Crystal Medal

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Sandrine Layrisse is a research engineer at the University of Bordeaux, scientific delegate for digital tools at CNRS Mathématiques, and head of the Mathrice thematic network. Her wide-ranging work has earned her the CNRS's 2025 Crystal Medal.

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I help provide IT resources that contribute to a good working environment for mathematics researchers in Bordeaux, but also throughout France and even beyond.
Sandrine Layrisse

After working in industrial IT in the private sector, network administration at Bordeaux Montaigne University1 , and as user support manager at the University of Toulouse, Sandrine Layrisse joined the Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (IMB) at the University of Bordeaux in 1998. She gradually became involved in the Mathrice network by participating in national activities with the PLMteam. In 2015, she became a professional network advisor.

Her activities now cover a range of technical and managerial skills implemented at the local and national levels, complemented by responsibilities in the Mathrice thematic network. This network brings together IT staff from the professional branch E (ITA and ITRF) of all French mathematics research units. In 2021, Sandrine Layrisse became digital tool scientific delegate for CNRS Mathématiques, a national mission to assist in the management of IT engineering combined with open science projects.

“I work with several teams of computer scientists. As director, I guide and monitor the work of around 20 people,” explains Sandrine Layrisse. She also advises the management of CNRS Mathématiques on issues relating to IT in the mathematics laboratories attached to it.

Sandrine Layrisse is currently participating in the European project EOSC LUMEN. Launched in 2025, this multidisciplinary project will run for three years. While her work is set to evolve significantly towards the field of open science, she nevertheless hopes to continue her activities in her laboratory and within the Mathrice network, as she also plans to pass on her PLM skills to the young colleagues involved in the project.

With this award, Sandrine Layrisse also wishes to highlight the commitment of her colleagues in the PLM team in particular, and more broadly of the Mathrice network. Without them, she believes, there would not be as much action and support for the whole. Sandrine Layrisse considers herself very sensitive to the fundamentals of the network and the values it shares: solidarity, cohesion, motivation, and emulation.

  • 1CNRS/Bordeaux INP/Université de Bordeaux
I feel very honored by this award. It gives me the opportunity to thank everyone I work with, both long-standing colleagues and new acquaintances, who make it possible for me to do a job I love, because I have found my place.
Sandrine Layrisse

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