École normale supérieure de Lyon

For several years, the higher education and research institutions of the Lyon Saint-Étienne site have been involved in a collaborative and structuring process for the site. The aim of the "Université de Lyon 2020" project is to create a world-class, inclusive and multidisciplinary institution, known as the “Target University”.

As part of IDEXLYON, 5 projects were selected from the call for the Scientific Breakthrough Program to receive funding of up to 1.2 million euros per project.

Press release by Laclarée on November 15, 2019.

Publication by LBMC on PLOS One on Novembre 21, 2019.

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.

The École normale supérieure de Lyon had the honor of awarding the status of Doctor Honoris Causa to Joseph E. Stiglitz, the American economist, Professor at Columbia University, and 2001 winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.

On Monday, October 21, 2019, the Chemistry Laboratory officially opened its new premises. Now all laboratory staff are in the M6 building on the Monod campus.

The prestigious Simons Foundation of New York has announced funding for an international project to revisit the fundamental problems of fluid turbulence using statistical mechanics.

The first edition of Knowledge Summit was held in March 2018. It was organized on the occasion of the State visit of the President of the Republic in India and inaugurated by Mrs. Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation which helped to establish the roadmap for Franco-Indian cooperation for the coming years, in partnership with companies.

Researchers should learn to travel better to mitigate their climate impacts. Institutions can help by facilitating and rewarding sustainable travel behaviour, rather than fuelling the pressure to attend conferences, say Olivier Hamant, Timothy Saunders and Virgile Viasnoff.

As part of the #ErasmusDays 2019, the mobility week organized by the ENS de Lyon offers you a series of information meetings for students and staff alike, as well as convivial moments around the international scene.

At the end of August this year, ENS de Lyon organized an integration week to welcome students from around the world, as part of its policy of increased international attractiveness.

On September 11, Bernard Lahire will receive the insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Veracruz.

While students are entering the ENS de Lyon, researchers are just as active.

In this new academic year, 55 foreign students from about ten countries were admitted to ENS de Lyon. If a third party already speaks French, this is not the case for the remaining two thirds.

As temperature records have continuously been broken all over the world, many of us scientist had to endure extreme conditions in our overheated offices. Climate change is happening, and faster than we’d like to think, but how does this play a role in the scientific community? Geodynamicist Nicolas Coltice - former doctoral student at the ENS de Lyon, professor at the UCBL at the LGL-TPE until 2018 and currently professor at the ENS de Paris - brings elements for reflection.

The Simons Foundation announced on June 4, 2019 the establishment of the Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence, directed by Jalal Shatah from NYU assisted by Laure Saint-Raymond from ENS de Lyon and Nicolas Mordant from UGA.

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.

On Thursday, June 26, 2019, Shanghai's rankings by discipline were published.

On June 19, 2019, the sixteenth edition of one of the most consulted university rankings in the world was published.

Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Gilles Dromart and Gilles Montagnac of the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon (LGL-TPE) are members of a research team developing one of the instruments that will go aboard the rover of the Mars 2020 Mission: the SuperCam.

Call for applications for international doctoral students - 2019/2020
Deadline: July 3, 2019, 12:00 French time

Welcome to all eligible students!

The members of the Michel Serres Institute of ENS de Lyon pay tribute to the philosopher who passed away on June 1, 2019.

By decree of the President of the Republic on May 31, 2019, Mr. Jean-François Pinton was reappointed President of École normale supérieure de Lyon, as from June 5, 2019, for a five-year period.

The 2019 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of June 1st 2019.

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).

At the very end of a high-level final, the team of physics students from ENS Lyon finished second in the International Physicists' Tournament 2019, which was held from April 21 to 26 at EPFL in Switzerland.

After winning the French Physicists' Tournament 2019 in February, the team from ENS de Lyon is now competing in the International Physicists' Tournament 2019 at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Lausanne (Switzerland). Good luck to them!

On 22 March 2019, ENS de Lyon received the "HR excellence in research" label (HRS4R) from the European Commission for its European HR strategy for researchers.

Molsid, has been awarded the Novacité label and will thus benefit from personalized monitoring by the Lyon Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and from specific assistance for the management of its company.

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

Doctors and patients are often homogenized into two main categories: the caregivers and the people receiving treatment. But everyone has their own specificities, depending on their experience, their training, where they come from, etc.

Infectious diseases, the main causes of human mortality according to the WHO, have always been a particular concern for society.

Lucile Savary's Prize Lecture and Award Ceremony will be held in during the 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics – StatPhys 27 – from July 8 to July 12, 2019 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Vidium was created in December 2018 by Sami Bou Antoun, CEO, and Arnaud Bonnaffoux, CSO and former doctoral student at the Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell (LBMC).

The selection committee met on January 17, 2019 and announced the eight winning projects from the Tech 4 Inclusion call for proposals. Two of them are carried by ENS de Lyon.

Recipient of the Jaffe Prize last June, Sergio Ciliberto is now receiving the EPS Prize for his research work as a whole.

Alex Andrix had already collaborated in October 2018 with the Physics laboratory on a work entitled "Variations physiques" (Physical Variations).

The "ENS de Lyon/UCBL/UDL" team came top, with a final score of 161.84 points. In April, the team will therefore represent France in Switzerland.

Mumps Technologies (Mumps Tech) has been founded in January 2019 by Jean-Yves L'Excellent, Inria researcher at the Computer Science Laboratory (Lip) of ENS de Lyon, Chiara Puglisi, transferand innovation engineer, and Patrick Amestoy, professor at Toulouse INP.