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Audrey Bienfait, a CNRS research associate at ENS de Lyon's Physics laboratory (LPENSL/CNRS/ENS de Lyon), is one of three recipients of the first Young Researchers Award for Excellence, established in 2025 by the CFM Foundation for Research. Photo credit: © Nil Hoppenot

Romain Graziani, professor of Chinese studies at ENS de Lyon and researcher at the Institut d'Asie Orientale, received the Académie des Belles-Lettres prize and the Sollers prize for his book Les Lois et les Nombres. Photo credit © Gallimard - Francesca Mantovani

At the INRIA - Académie des Sciences 2025 awards ceremony on November 25, Jean-Michel Muller, CNRS research director at LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (Inria Center in Lyon/CNRS/ENS de Lyon/UCBL), received the highest distinction, the INRIA Grand Prize.

Isabelle Baraffe, member of CRAL, Corentin Herbert, member of LPENSL, and Édouard Bonnet, member of LIP, as well as nine alumni of ENS de Lyon – Charles-Édouard Brehier, Émilie Capron, Jeanne Costante (Crassous), Éric Falcon, Louis Fayard, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Yvon Maday, Hubert Saleur, and Jérémie Szeftel – have been distinguished at the 2025 French Academy of Sciences awards ceremony. Thumbnail photo © All rights reserved.

Léa Chazot Franguiadakis, researcher at LPENSL, and entrepreneur Typhaine Brual, incubated at ENS de Lyon, are among the winners of the French Government’s Innovation Competition, in the i-PhD category, which supports the development of emerging start-ups.