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Isabelle Baraffe, member of the CRAL, is Professor of Astrophysics on secondment at the University of Exeter, UK. She is awarded the EAS 2023 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture.

In 2023, Patrice Abry has been elevated EURASIP Fellow, Patrick Flandrin has received the Technical Achievement Award.

Congratulations to our students and our coaches from the Chemistry Department for this great victory.

Our students have talent! The proof is in the 10th edition of the French Physicists' Tournament where our students finished in second place.

Sabine Fourrier (HiSoMA) and Hervé Piégay (EVS) are among the 24 national laureates. Both of them would like to share this medal with their teams. Congratulations also to our 4 Alumni Ludovic Berthier, Isabelle Cantat, Jeanne Crassous and Ludovic Orlando, also distinguished by the CNRS.

CNRS researcher at CIRI since February 1st, 2023, Abdelrahim Zoued works on the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. He received the Jacques Monod Foundation 2022 Prize, awarded by the Fondation de France, for his research project on the pathogen-host interface during infections.

Benoît Libert, Octavie Paris and Sébastien Canard received the Special Jury Award for the H2020 PROMETHEUS project.

Congratulations to Elsa Boulet, PhD in sociology (Max Weber Center), who was granted the Humanity and Urbanities Prize, and to Jérémy Salaam, PhD in Chemistry (Chemistry Laboratory of ENS de Lyon), who was granted the Science and Engineering Prize.

The accessit was awarded to Dewi Sintiari for her thesis "Width parameters on even-hole-free graphs", conducted under the supervision of Nicolas Trotignon at LIP.

On Tuesday, November 22, two ceremonies honored members of the ENS de Lyon.

Congratulations to Janne Blichert-Toft, Mickaël Bourgoin and Gwyneth Ingram, members of ENS de Lyon laboratories and to Laurent Fargues, Bruno Hudry, and Marié-Hélène Verlhac, Alumni of the School.

Congratulations to Alice Malivert, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO 2022 French Young Talent Award - L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize for Women in Science.

A tireless promoter of the usefulness and beauty of mathematics, Étienne Ghys is one of the four recipients of this distinction created by the CNRS a year ago, to promote scientific mediation activities.

On Monday, June 20, Laurence Roulleau-Berger chose to receive her medal of merit at ENS de Lyon, presented by Marie Gaille, director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences. The ceremony, just like Laurence Roulleau-Berger's impressive scientific career, was full of energy, discussion and emotion.

January 1, 2022, Patrick Flandrin was appointed to the rank of Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

Congratulations to Frédérique Rozier (RDP), recipient of the 2022 Crystal medal awarded by the CNRS.

Congratulations to Édouard Bonnet (LIP), Mathilde Paris (IGFL) and Stephan Steinmann (LCH), recipients of the 2023 bronze medal awarded by the CNRS.

Congratulations to Marianne Métoix (LGL-TPE), Aurèle Piazza (LBMC) and Lucile Savary (LPENSL), recipients of the 2022 bronze medal awarded by the CNRS.

Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe, an ENS de Lyon alumni, and Julien Thiburce, a post-doctoral fellow at the ICAR laboratory, received the "Prix de la Jeune Recherche"* awarded by the Métropole and Ville de Lyon in partnership with the Université de Lyon.
*The Young Research Award

Director of the IT department of ENS de Lyon, Alain Tchana has been rewarded as part of the 10th edition of the “Prix de la Francophonie*” for Young Researchers awarded by the AUF.
*Award for French-speaking countries

This award annually recognizes significant contributions to the field of mathematical physics.

This prize is awarded for work intended for the progress and well-being of humanity.

After Yasmine Bouagga, last year, it is a second member of the Triangle Laboratory who is rewarded by the French Red Cross Foundation.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 50 recipients of 2022 Union Medals and Awards. These individuals are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences.

A timely result for the standardisation of post-quantum cryptography.

This is prestigious recognition for Denis Bartolo for his pioneering experimental and theoretical contributions to the field of active matter.

Carine Michel is the 2020 recipient in the scientific category.
 

Photo credit: © Hubert Souquet-Basiège | Ariane Gayout in a wind tunnel balancing a pendulum for experiments on instationary aerodynamic effects.

The prize is awarded to Djob Mvondo for his thesis entitled Resilience and sizing in virtualized environments.

Regional press release on April 22, 2021

Congratulations to Olivier Terrier, research fellow at CIRI, recipient of the CNRS Bronze Medal for 2021.

She receives this honor is in recognition of her substantial contributions to the learning sciences.

Press release from the Academy of Sciences on December 9, 2020.

Two researchers from ENS de Lyon have received an award from the French Academy of Sciences.

Stéphanie Jacquet, Ida Tucker and Monu Kaushik are among the 35 Young Talents of the 2020 L'Oréal - UNESCO Prize for Women and Science.

Isabelle Baraffe, professor at CRAL (ENS de Lyon / CNRS / UCBL), is the recipient of the prestigious Viktor Ambartsumian International Scientific Prize.

Since 1922, the Louis Ancel Award is granted every year by the French Society of Physics. It rewards a French physicist for his/her work in condensed matter physics.

The Bronze Medal is awarded to early work of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is well underway and already fruitful.

Yves Robert has been selected to receive the 2020 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award “for contributions to parallel algorithms and scheduling techniques.”

The 'AI Chairs' aim to offer researchers substantial resources to build a team and carry out an ambitious project whose visible impact is expected.

The 2020 Bôcher Memorial Prize will be awarded to Laure Saint-Raymond on January 16, 2020, during the Joint Prize Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Denver.

Vance Bergeron, Ane Aanesland, Livio de Luca, and Orphée Cugat are the 2019 CNRS Innovation Medallists. Since 2011, this CNRS prize has rewarded researchers for their work in the technological, therapeutic, economic, and social fields.

On June 2019, Professor Gilles Chabrier was awarded for his seminal contributions to a variety of astrophysical domains, from planetary to stellar and galactic astronomy.

Nadège Hilairet, former student at the ENS de Lyon and PhD at the Geology Laboratory of Lyon - Earth, Planets, Environment, now working at Université de Lille, received the 2019 Research Excellence Award of the European Mineralogical Union (EMU).

The first Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences is awarded in 2018 to Francis Albarède, Emeritus Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, for his fundamental applications of geochemistry to earth sciences.

Each year, the CNRS rewards those who have contributed the most to its influence and to the advancement of research.