Personnel
As of June 30, 2019, LIRMM personnel totaled 422 people.
LIRMM Human Resources as of June 30, 2019
- 49 Permanent Researchers (41 CNRS, 11 Inria)
- 115 Permanent Research Professors (104 University of Montpellier [UM], 14 non-UM)
- 25 Non-permanent Researchers and Research Professors
- 25 affiliated emeriti members (11 regular contributors and 11 long-term guests)
- 137 PhD Students
- 29 Permanent Engineers (27 CNRS, 2 Inria)
- 34 Non-permanent Engineers
- 8 Non-teaching personnel / BIATSS* (9 UM, 1 Université Paul Valéry)
Total Staff: 422
* Librarians, Engineers, Administrative Staff, Technicians, Social and Health Workers
Budget
In 2018, LIRMM’s consolidated budget was18.6 M€. Salaries accounted for approximately 12M€.
Patents
During this period, we obtained 26 patents (or patent extensions), and filed 9 patent applications. Most of these were issued for the Microelectronics (15 patents + 5 applications) and Robotics (9 patents + 3 applications) Departments. The patents obtained included 12 European extensions and 14 US extensions.
R&D Contracts
Nine percent of the Lab’s resources come from contracts with companies. The collaborations they generate are crucial for several teams, who work closely with numerous partners: such is the case for the ADVANSE, ICAR, and MAREL teams in the Computer Science Department; the ADAC, SMARTIES, TEST teams in the Microelectronics Department; and the DEXTER and IDH teams in the Robotics Department, which total at least 5 different R&D or Cifre contracts each.
Generating Start-ups
Between 2014 and 2019, LIRMM scientific teams have collaborated with 28 start-ups. Our support for these start-ups takes various forms, and includes advice, expertise, and/or scientific collaboration. Depending on the situation, this support can be formalized with contracts (which are then listed in the R&D contract list). Four of these start-ups were created by permanent LIRMM researchers. Other companies were created by former LIRMM PhD Students: PRADEO, NATURAL PAD, ALGODONE, NUMALIS, REEDS, NINJALAB and SEQONE. Finally, to further extend our support, we offered to host several start-ups on LIRMM premises. These are: SYHA, NINJALAB, ACUSURGICAL and ADAGE. NEURINNOV is hosted by Inria.
Within the period of reference, 9 of these LIRMM-created or LIRMM-supported start-ups received the I-Lab award:
• In the ‘Emergence’ Category: NUMALIS and ANATOSCOPE
• In the ‘Creation-Development’ Category: ALGODONE, EMERSYA, ANATOSCOPE, SEQONE, SYHA, NEURINNOV, IOTEROP and ARKYAN