On June 5, 2024, the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), the French Academic Institute, unveiled the list of its 200 new members - 100 Juniors and 100 Seniors - elected from October 1, 2024 for a five-year term. Among them are two professors and sixteen alumni of ENS Lyon.

Andrew Pell

• Elected Junior Member, Fundamental Chair Laureate
• Professor, Department of Chemistry at ENS Lyon, Head of the Master 2 research course
• Member of the Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon (CRMN, CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University)

Andrew Pell joined the ENS de Lyon in 2020. His current work aims to determine in detail the structure of complex (para)magnetic materials using solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and to relate these characteristics to the function of the materials as components of their devices.

It is a great honor to have been elected IUF Junior and I warmly thank my colleagues for this recognition. I plan to use this time to pursue my research into the development and application of solid-state NMR to study (para)magnetic materials, which combines the disciplines of NMR spectroscopy, spin physics, computational chemistry and materials chemistry.

Nikolay Tzvetkov

• Elected Senior Member, Fundamental Chair Laureate
• Professor, Mathematics Department at the ENS de Lyon, responsible for the Master 1 year.
• Member of the Pure and Applied Mathematics Unit (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Inria)

Nikolay Tzvetkov will join the ENS de Lyon in 2022. His current research focuses on the statistical description of the flow of Hamiltonian partial differential equations, and more specifically on the interaction between temporary oscillations and the random oscillations present in this framework. He was elected Junior Member of the IUF in 2010.

The nomination to the IUF will enable me to devote even more energy to the project which aims to construct a canonical dynamic of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, posed on the two-dimensional sphere, on the support of the Gibbs measure. I've been working on this project since 2006, and I dare to believe that it now has everything it needs to come to fruition soon. What's more, the IUF nomination will enable me to leave my comfort zone more often in terms of my research activities.

Alumni

Elected Junior members of the Fundamental Chair

• Anaïs Albert, Associate Professor of Contemporary History, Université Paris Cité. Competitive examination in Arts 2003 
• Romain Benini, Associate Professor of French language, Sorbonne University. Student then doctoral student (2006-2017)
• Marie Derrien, Associate Professor of History, Université de Lille. Competitive examination in Arts 2007 
• Benjamin Hennion, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Université Paris-Saclay. Competitive examination in Science 2008
• Chloé Huvet, Associate Professor of Musicology, Université d’Évry. Competitive examination in Arts 2008  
• Igor Krtolica, Associate Professor of Philosophy, université Picardie Jules-Verne. Competitive examination in Arts 2003  
• Sarah Neelsen, Associate Professor of German Studies, Sorbonne-Nouvelle University. Concours Lettres 2004 
• Marielle Simon, Professor OF Mathematics, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1. Competitive Examination in Science 2008 
• Michele Triestino, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Université de Bourgogne. Doctoral student (thesis defended in 2014) and Junior Lecturer (ATER) at ENS de Lyon in 2013-2014.
• Paul Vo-Ha, Associate Professor of History, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Competitive examination in Arts 2005. 

Elected Junior Member of the Scientific Mediation Chair

• Marie-Jeanne Zenetti, Associate Professor of French Literature, Université Lumière Lyon 2. Competitive examination in Arts 2003

Elected Senior Members of the Fundamental Chair

• Philippe Grosos, Professor of Philosophy, University of Poitiers. Competitive examination in Arts 1983 
• Yves Meheust, Associate Professor of Geosciences, University of Rennes. Competitive examination in Science 1994 
• Sylvie Requemora, Professor of XVII century French Literature, Aix-Marseille University. Competitive examination in Arts 1991

Elected Senior Members of the Innovation Chair

• Anne Abeillé, Professor of Linguistics, Université Paris Cité. Competitive examination in Arts 1983 
• François Alouges, Professor of Mathematics, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay. Competitive examination in Science 1985.