École normale supérieure de Lyon

Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science, at RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences.
Visiting professor 2024-2025 from 13 June to 14 July 2025
Inviting professor: Etera Livine

A researcher from the Physics Laboratory at ENS de Lyon “unravels knitwear” to turn it into a research subject...

Adjunct professor at the Engineering Department of the University of Buenos Aires (FIUBA), independent researcher at IAR (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía) and CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research).
Visiting professor 2024-2025. January 8 to February 12, 2025.
Inviting professor: Julian Tachella.

Isabelle Baraffe, a member of the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), is a Professor of Astrophysics on secondment at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. In October 2024, she was awarded a prize for her pioneering research in theoretical astrophysics, which has revolutionised our understanding of the structure and evolution of stars and planets.

Congratulations to Amélie Joly (IGFL) and Lise Morlet-Decarnin (LPENSL).

Research and sports can be closely linked. This is demonstrated by the Physics Laboratory of ENS de Lyon, which has long been involved in work to improve sporting performance. As the Olympic and Paralympic Games draw to a close, let's take a look at the contribution science makes to sport.

Publication of the RDP in PNAS on May 30, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 8, 2024.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Physical Review Letters on July 31, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on September 2, 2024.

Publication of the Physics laboratory in Physical Review Fluids on May 3, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on July 3, 2024.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Physical Review Materials on July 9, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on September 5, 2024.

Ingrid Daubechies, Doctor Honoris causa of ENS de Lyon in 2018, is invited at the 32nd edition of Eusipco, Europe's leading signal processing conference, held in Lyon this week.

Congratulations are in order for physicist Lydéric Bocquet, former doctoral student and later Research Associate at the Physics Laboratory of ENS de Lyon.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Journal of Rheology on April 11, 2024.

Alice & Bob and research partners granted €16.5 million in public funding to make quantum computing 10 times cheaper. Alice & Bob is the first company ever to receive all four innovation grants from the French State.

Presse release on March 27, 2024

The CNRS awards François Leulier, Director of the IGFL, the silver medal and Lucie Étienne, a researcher at CIRI, and three alumni of our school, the bronze medal.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Phys. Rev. Lett. on October 24, 2023. News by CNRS Physics on January 22, 2024.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Physical Review Letters on January 19, 2024. News by CNRS Physics on January 23, 2024.

Patrick Flandrin, CNRS Research Director Emeritus, member of the Physics Laboratory of ENS de Lyon and member of the French Academy of Sciences, receives the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award 2023, for his contributions to the education in time-frequency-based methods and their mathematical foundations.

Gilles Chabrier, Emeritus CNRS Research Director in CRAL AstroENS team, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Exeter, receives the prestigious Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, for his outstanding contributions to astrophysics and galactic astronomy.

Alain Pumir, CNRS Research Director at ENS de Lyon Physics Laboratory, receives the 2023 Ed Lorenz Lecture Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Publication of the Physics Laboratory and Chemistry Laboratory in the journal Langmuir on November 16, 2023. News by CNRS Chemistry on December 19, 2023.

Publication of the RDP in the journal PNAS on November 21, 2023. News by CNRS Engineering on December 7, 2023.

Publication of the CRAL in the journal Nature on December 6, 2023. Press alert of CNRS on December 6, 2023.

Congratulations to Anne L'Huillier, a former student of ENS de Lyon, laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, alongside Ferenc Krausz and Pierre Agostini.

Louis-Alexandre Couston, Associate Professor of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University at the Physics Laboratory, and Benjamin Wesolowski, CNRS Research at UMPA, have been awarded the prestigious "Starting" Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal PNAS, on July 18, 2022, and Nano Letters, on May 22, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INP on July 17, 2023.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory and the LIP in the journal PRX Quantum on April 18, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INP on June 13, 2023.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Nature on June 14, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INP on June 14, 2023.

Congratulations to the physics students of ENS de Lyon and their coaches for this wonderful victory.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Nature Physics on May 4, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSIS on May 9, 2023.

Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Racah Institute of Physics, Israel
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 7 to May 7, 2023
Inviting Researcher: Adda-Bedia Mokhtar

Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University and Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Ediburgh, Scotland UK
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 8 to 29, 2023
Inviting Researcher: Julián Tachella

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Physical Review Fluids on April 4, 2023. Communication of the CNRS on April 3, 2023.

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

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

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A on January 11, 2023. Press realease of the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University on February 10, 2023.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Macromolecules on October 11, 2022. CNRS-INP communication on October 28, 2022.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics on September 14, 2022. CNRS-INSIS communication on September 30, 2022.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Physical Review Letters on September 15, 2022. CNRS-INP communication on September 22, 2022.

Publication of the LPENSL in the journal Physical Review Applied on July 6, 2022. CNRS-INP communication on July 7, 2022.

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

 For this occasion, renowned scientists, including Nobel Prize winners and CNRS medalists, celebrated together the creation of the School.

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

Publication of the LPENSL in the journal Physical Review Letters on February 17, 2022. CNRS-INP communication on April 11, 2022.

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Department of Aerospace Engineering
Visiting Professor 2021-22 - April 28 to May 25, 2022
Inviting Researcher: Thierry Dauxois

Organized by the Université de Lyon, the regionalfinal of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) competition was played to a full house on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Bastien Marguet and Arthur Guerin-Turcq are the lucky winners of this local final. They will go to the national semi-final on April 8 and 9, 2022 in Paris.

Laclarée is one of the start-ups that has been hosted in the ENS Lyon incubator. The company develops adaptive glasses to correct presbyopia. These glasses integrate a patented technology of lenses that automatically adjust in optical power so that the object looked at is always clear, whatever the observation distance.