École normale supérieure de Lyon

Rémy Madinier is a research director at the CNRS. A historian specializing in contemporary religious history in Indonesia, he works within the Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO) at the École normale supérieure (ENS) in Lyon. He is publishing La Java des Jésuites : Une autre histoire des relations islamo-chrétiennes - XIX^e-XXI^e siècles.

BIOSANTEXC Research and Academic Mobility Program 2025: the campaign is open.

Please note that this year the annual BIOSANTEXC/Franco-Indian Campus Workshop (theme: Global Health) will be held in Paris, France on 08 and 09 December 2025. We therefore strongly encourage candidates to undertake their mobility within the same period in order to optimize scientific encounters and opportunities.

Administrative staff mobility from India to France: the campaign is open.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Prakhar BHARDWAJ, IISER Tirupati's doctoral student, completed a three-month PhD research stay at RDP.

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.

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.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Kush GULATI, IISER Mohali's student, focuses his research on analysing single-cell RNA-seq data in skin samples at IGFL.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Naman ARORA, completed his six-month internship at CIRI under the supervision of Saïdi M HOMA SOUDJA in collaboration with Stéphane PAUL’s lab in Saint-Etienne. He is a student at IISER Mohali, and his research focuses on shaping T cell response at homeostasis.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Prisha TANDA, IISER Mohali's student her research focuses on understanding the enigmatic interplays between DNA replication during the S phase and condensin-mediated chromosome assembly during mitosis. She has completed her six-month internship at the Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC).

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.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Nancy, IISER Mohali's student in Virology, has completed her five-month internship at the International Research Center in Infectious Diseases (CIRI).

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Mridusmita DAS, IISER Pune student in Drosophilia, has completed her six-month internship at the Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC).

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Ananya CHANDRA, IISER Mohali’s student in Cell Biology, has completed her six-month internship at the Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC) in early 2024.

In the framework of the BIOSANTEXC project, the Office of International Relations of ENS de Lyon hosted a get-together on February 3rd 2025 to welcome interns and PhD students from the IISERs.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Raghav GALGALI, IISER Bhopal’s student in Biological Sciences, has completed his six-month internship at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon (IGFL) in early 2024.

PhD mobility from India to France: the campaign is closed.

Since 2010, the East Asia Institute (IAO) has been celebrating the Lunar New Year at ENS de Lyon. Through its association with this global event, which brings together nearly a billion people every year, the strength of the School's links with Asia is also expressed. A cultural and joyful tribute, whose beautiful posters, over the years, retrace the programme. 

The calls are closed.

Chinese students, applications for the CSC-ENS 2025 doctoral scholarships are open from January 20 to February 14, 2025. Discover the thesis topics proposed.

On May 28 and 29, 2024, the Franco-Indian life sciences for global health program BIOSANTEXC held its mid-term workshop. The event provided an opportunity to bring all the partners together to discuss the construction of a global Franco-Indian campus, and to present the concrete results of the first collaborations, such as the emergence of a plant biology project which was the subject of its own workshop on May 30 and 31. 

For the second time this year, ENS de Lyon welcomed a delegation from East China Normal University. These meetings enabled to renew strong contacts and establish a work schedule for the development of collaborative programs.

In the framework of the BIOSANTEXC project, the Office of International Affairs of ENS de Lyon hosted a get-together on October 5th to welcome interns and visiting professors from the IISERs.

The 11 consortium partners met from May 23 to 25 at IISER Pune, for the official launch event of the Franco-Indian campus for life sciences for health Biosantexc.

On June 7 and 8, 2023, ENS de Lyon welcomed a delegation from East China Normal University, led by its Vice-President of International Relations.

A delegation from ENS de Lyon, composed of the Office of International Affairs and representatives of the four laboratories in life sciences of the ENS de Lyon, will be present at the IISER Pune, where this important moment of the Biosantexc project will take place form May 23 to May 25, 2023.

By Laurence Roulleau-Berger, research director at the CNRS, Triangle laboratory.

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - March 8 to April 5, 2023
Inviting Professor: Jens Hasserodt

Find the selected project for the 2022 JoRISS call.

The ENS-IISER partnership encouraged Megha Jacob and Deevitha Balasubramanian, graduate students in biology at IISER Tirupati, to apply for a 6-month internship at ENS de Lyon in 2021.

Ashley Suraj Hermon, IISER Bhopal's student in Biological Sciences, has completed his two month internship at the IGFL in mid-2022.

Integrated Research Oriented Training Network in Life Sciences through Interdisciplinary Approaches.

Selected amongst a shortlist of  8 projects, the final Biosantexc proposal "Integrated research-oriented training network in life sciences through interdisciplinary approaches"  is to be submitted this Friday, September 30.  The consortium consists of the 4 French Écoles Normale Supérieures, the 6 Indian Institutes of Science, Education and Research (IISER) and 4 other Indian research institutes in medicine and life sciences. Results are expected to be announced at the end of October.

On this occasion, the ENS of Lyon represented the four French ENS which were pre-selected in the framework of their project in consortium with the IISER and the NCCS.

The 2021 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of September 15, 2021.

International partnership: ENS de Lyon and Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan

The 2020 JoRISS call for Sino-French research projects is open as of September 1, 2020.

The Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO in French) has set up a blog focusing on the current epidemic.

On 11 December 2019, the ENS de Lyon welcomed a delegation from the East China Normal University (ECNU).

The 10th Steering Committee of the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society (JoRISS), under the joint chairmanship of Mr QIAN Xuhong (President of ECNU) and Mr Yanick RICARD (Vice-President Research of ENS de Lyon), was held on December 11, 2019 at ENS de Lyon. Six projects were selected in the framework of the call for research projects launched in autumn 2019.

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.

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