The Muse-IC project was initiated in 2017 by Judith Miné-Hattab, CNRS researcher and biophysicist at the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Sorbonne University).

Judith Miné-Hattab studied piano with Elena Varvarova, Akiko Ebi, and Igor Lasko. She won third prize at the Pierre Lantier International Piano Competition in 1992. After earning diplomas in piano performance and chamber music from the École Normale de Musique de Paris, she obtained a Master’s degree in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay, followed by a PhD at the Institut Curie (Paris) in 2008 under the supervision of Jean-Louis Viovy.

Between 2008 and 2012, she completed postdoctoral research in Rodney Rothstein’s team at Columbia University (New York, USA), continuing her work at the École Normale Supérieure in Xavier Darzacq’s group. From 2008 to 2010, she also attended courses at the Juilliard School’s Evening Division, studying with pianist Assaff Weisman.

In 2013, she became a CNRS researcher at the Institut Curie, within Angela Taddei’s team (UMR3664, Nuclear Dynamics), and later joined the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology (IBPS, Sorbonne University), where she founded the research group FIONA (Functional Imaging Of Nuclear Architecture).

Seeking to unite her two passions, she launched the Muse-IC project in 2017 to foster encounters between composers and scientists. To fund the first edition, she received support from Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Each edition allows several composers to collaborate with researchers over the course of a year, creating a musical work inspired by scientific discoveries. These collaborations culminate in concert-conferences that combine the dissemination of scientific knowledge with contemporary music.

The artistic direction of the Muse-IC project is led by Garance Alberman, musician and concert organizer.