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ENS de Lyon offers training for teaching and research careers

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30 research structures and high-tech equipment, from archaeology to quantum physics

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ENS de Lyon institutional presentation video

ENS de Lyon institutional presentation video. This 2.10 minute video introduce ENS de Lyon in a succession of images of the different sites and memebers of the school, accompanied by texts and figures in French and in English. The texts displayed on the images are transcribed below in french and then in english. Image descriptions are shown in square brackets.

Bienvenue à l’École normale supérieure de Lyon

Welcome to École normale supérieure de Lyon

[Image of students throwing their hats at a graduation ceremony]

Formation & Recherche

Research and education

[Images of lecture theatres and research laboratories at ENS de Lyon]

2400 étudiantes et étudiants

2400 students

[Photograph of a graduating class of students from ENS de Lyon]

700 enseignantes-chercheures et enseignants-chercheurs

700 Academic staff

[Images of faculty memeber in teaching and research situations]

600 personnels administratifs et techniques

600 admistrative staff

[Images of various administrative staff in professional situations: managers, gardeners, IT specialists, animators]

12 départements de formation

12 departments

[Mosaic of 12 images representing the activities of the various departments of ENS de Lyon]

30 structures de recherche

30 research units

[Mosaic of 12 images representing the activities of the various research structures at ENS de Lyon]

Sciences et humanités

Humanities and sciences

[Image taken from an ENS de Lyon graduation ceremony when the Humanities department took to the stage]

Interface entre Science & société

When science and society meet

[Overhead view of a ‘climate fresk’]

Exigence

Aiming high

[Image taken from a graduation ceremony at ENS de Lyon during the presentation of the degree by the school's governing body]

Curiosité

Curiosity

[Composition of 3 images with interactions between faculty memebers and students]

Ouverture

Openness

[Composition of 2 images at events open to the public]

Rejoignez-nous

Join us

[Aerial views of ENS de Lyon site]

Créer

Create

[Image from a research units at ENS de Lyon]

Transmettre

Transmit

[2 Images of students and teachers]

Diffuser la connaissance

Disseminate knowledge

[Mosaic of 4 images of students and teachers]

Pour un monde plus intelligible et durable

Making sense of the world for a sustainable future

[Close-up of a flower in the garden of ENS de Lyon, then a view of the garden on the Descartes campus]

École normale supérieure

[Text and image animation by ENS de Lyon]

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Cryptography: Damien Stehlé's post-quantum journey

Lyon's research stands out in the new post-quantum era. Two algorithms designed by Damien Stehlé are among the 3 standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2024.
Let's take a look back at a game-changing innovation.

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    Société chimique de France awards: Anne Lesage wins the Prix Pierre Süe 2023
    Société chimique de France awards: Anne Lesage wins the Prix Pierre Süe 2023
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    Rendez-vous aux jardins : ENS de Lyon takes part in the 22nd edition
    Rendez-vous aux jardins : ENS de Lyon takes part in the 22nd edition

Research

ENS de Lyon is home to numerous research laboratories in the fields of exact sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Research activity at ENS de Lyon is reflected in the number of publications and citations of its researchers, projects funded, numerous scientific events, etc.

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Laws and Numbers

Romain Graziani is a professor of Chinese studies at ENS de Lyon and a researcher at the East Asian Institute. He publishes "Les Lois et les Nombres" with Gallimard.

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History of Contemporary Vietnam - From 1858 to the present day

François Guillemot is a historian specializing in contemporary Vietnam, and a CNRS research engineer at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO). He is the author of “Histoire du Viêt Nam contemporain - De 1858 à nos jours”, published by La Découverte.

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My little story of numbers

Étienne Ghys is CNRS emeritus research Director in Mathematics at ENS de Lyon and Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences. He is the author of Ma petite histoire des nombres, published by Odile Jacob.

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Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents

Mònica Ginés-Blasi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), in ENS de Lyon, publishes Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History, published by De Gruyter Brill.

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Competition between ordered morphologies of functionalized silver nanoparticles elucidated by a joint experimental and multiscale theoretical study

CNRS communication dated April 1, 2025. Based on a scientific publication by David Loffreda, Nathalie Tarrat, Corinne Lacaze-Dufaure, Franck Rabilloud, Katia Fajerwerg, Myrtil L. Kahn, Vincent Collière, Christine Lepetit and Pierre Fau in Nano Today.

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Mechanism of homology search expansion during recombinational DNA break repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Publication of the Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell in Molecular Cell, August 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on October 4, 2024.

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Nuclear power plants: a scintillating sponge for monitoring radioactive gas emissions

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in Nature Photonics on September 2, 2024. CNRS press release on September 4, 2024.

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So wait a while before cutting the cheese...

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Physical Review Materials on July 9, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on September 5, 2024.

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The counter-intuitive statistics of thermodynamics on a microscopic scale

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Physical Review Letters on July 31, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on September 2, 2024.

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New molecular cages to clean up contaminated aquatic ecosystems

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the Journal of Organic Chemistry on March 14, 2024. Communication by CNRS Chemistry on September 3, 2024.

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How old is the Eye of Africa?

Publication of the LGL-TPE in Lithos on June 18, 2024. Communication by UBO on July 8, 2024.

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Cell memory, a key parameter for morphogenesis

Publication of the RDP in PNAS on May 30, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 8, 2024.

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Where does the ocean dissipate the energy it receives from prevailing winds?

Publication of the Physics laboratory in Physical Review Fluids on May 3, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 3, 2024.

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Extent of CO2 and CO ices in the trans-Neptunian region revealed by JWST

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature Astronomy on May 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Earth & Space on June 19, 2024.

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Introducing HiSCod: A new Gateway for the Study of Historical Conflict

Publication by Cédric Chambru, Associate Professor at the Economics Department, in American Political Science Review, August 22, 2023

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Key role of stem cells in organizing the entire visible portion of plants

Publication of the RDP in the journal Development, on June 10, 2024.

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Studying at ENS de Lyon offers the opportunity to pursue a degree from L3 to doctorate with individualized courses.

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Student exchange between UQAM and ENS de Lyon

A new agreement has been signed between UQAM and ENS de Lyon.

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"Bienvenue en France" label: ENS de Lyon obtains 3 stars

ENS de Lyon holds the "Bienvenue en France" label, awarded by Campus France.

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