Two ENSTA students honoured at the ceremony to present the Junior Maryam Mirzakhani Award

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Awarded by the Jacques Hadamard Mathematical Foundation, this prize recognises female students each year for their first piece of research in mathematics. For the third consecutive year, two ENSTA students were honoured at the 2026 ceremony.

A former pupil of the Lycée Saint-Jean de Passy, Adèle Migozzi completed a PC-SI preparatory course followed by a PC preparatory course at the Lycée Stanislas before joining ENSTA’s general engineering programme in September 2024. In her second year, she chose to specialise in Applied Mathematics, with a Quantitative Finance specialisation.

During her second year at ENSTA, Adèle Migozzi, like all students, undertook a research project. Hers took place at the Cryptocurrency Research Laboratory at Imperial College London, under the supervision of William Knottenbelt, Professor of Applied Quantitative Analysis.

The aim of this research project was to explore so-called perpetual options in the cryptocurrency market by attempting to derive an analytical pricing formula for a perpetual option with a floating strike price.

It was the result of this work that Adèle Migozzi submitted for consideration by the jury of the Maryam Mirzakhani Junior Prize, comprising the director of the Jacques Hadamard Mathematical Foundation, Pascal Massart, and a panel of established mathematicians.

Adèle Migozzi hesitated for a long time before submitting this project to the jury, but finally took the plunge, inspired by Nour Gaaloul, a third-year student who herself received an honour at the previous edition.

Once she has her degree, Adèle Migozzi hopes to work in a finance research and development centre.

I am very proud to have won this prize, even though I had serious doubts about my chances of being selected before submitting my work for it. I’ve learnt just one lesson from this: believe in yourself and in your chances, because many young women tend to underestimate themselves in this competitive environment.

Adèle Migozzi ENSTA Student
Adèle Migozzi sur la passerelle de l'ENSTA campus de Paris-Saclay

For her part, Maëlyne Bennasar received a special mention from the jury for her work ‘Development of synthetic imaging results using AMBER’, which involved developing synthetic medical images based on tumour simulations in a virtual environment. AMBER is a model that simulates tumour dynamics during radiotherapy, including vascularisation and biological response.

In the long term, the aim is to obtain realistic images from the simulator, thereby enabling the validation of radiobiological models and the development of new image-derived biomarkers.

It should be noted that Maëlyne Bennasar had previously received the jury’s special prize during her presentation at the 2025 edition of “My Research Project in 180 Seconds”.

Maëlyne Bennasar

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