Institut Carnot STAR 

Technopôle de Château-Gombert

26, av. John Maynard Keynes

Europarc Bât C

13453 Marseille cedex 13

France

Sandrine GALMICHE  
+33 (0)6 77 23 03 98 
direction@icstar.fr
Philippe SPIGA 
+33 (0)6 38 37 53 89 
philippe.spiga@icstar.fr

CONTACTS

Research staff  
(full-time equivalent): 

 705

including PhD students: 

265

Partnership research incomes: 

14 500 k

€

Global budget: 

34 500 k

€

www.instituts-carnot.eu

Various technology platforms  

are available

 Mediterranean flight arena 
 Virtual reality Center 
 TechnoSport 
 (400 m

3

) anechoic chambers 

 Innovsys 
 High-performance laser sources 
 RFID 
  Aix-Marseille University Computing Center: 

HPC, 

 Materials characterization
  Tests in critical conditions (LSBB, Spatial 

Bure peak, wind tunnels...) 

 Design and characterization 
 High performance optical imaging,... 

Composantes

  UMR 7249, FRESNEL
  UMR 7273, ICR
  UMR 7334, IM2NP
  UMR 7342, IRPHE
  UMR 7287, ISM
  UMR 7343, IUSTI
  UMR 7326, LAM
  UPR 7051, LMA

  UMR 7341, LP3
  UMR 7296, LSIS
  UMR 7246, MADIREL
  UMR 7340, M2P2
  UMR 7345, PIIM

Our partners  

  Major companies  

Eurocopter, Oxylane, PSA, AREVA. 

LOREAL, STMicroelectronics, ARKEMA, 

SANOFI, TOTAL, SUEZ, GEMALTO, SEM...

  Small and medium size companies 

PMB, FLOWDIT, Syncrosome, TROPHOS, 

phasic, Intervascular, DIPTA, STID, MOTA, 

Phytorem, Heliopur, Genesink, CILAS...

  Competitiveness clusters  

Risks, Pégase, SCS, Optitec...

Recovery Tools

Incubators (Belle de Mai,

Impulse), south-east SATT 

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