École normale supérieure de Lyon

Congratulations to Élise Tendron, who has been awarded the Dissertation Prize by the Société Française Shakespeare, recognizing the best Master’s thesis (M1 or M2) of the year.

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

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.

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

Lyon's research stands out in the new post-quantum era. Two algorithms designed by Damien Stehlé are among the 3 standards published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2024.
Let's take a look back at a game-changing innovation.

On April 29, 2025, the Société Chimique de France awarded its prizes, including the Prix Pierre Süe 2023 to Anne Lesage, a research engineer at the European Center for High-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Université Lyon 1), for her work in developing innovative fundamental methods in solid-state NMR.

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.

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.

Étienne Ghys is CNRS emeritus research Director in Mathematics at ENS de Lyon and Permanent Secretary of the Académie des Sciences. He is the author of Ma petite histoire des nombres, published by Odile Jacob.

Francis Albarède, emeritus professor at ENS de Lyon and member of the LGL-TPE laboratory, has just been elected an international member of the United-States Academy of Sciences.

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.

Supported by a consortium of eleven institutions, the Lyon-Saint-Étienne university's artificial intelligence center of excellence follows on from the “AILyS” project submitted in 2023 as part of the France 2030 investment plan. In particular, it will pool the skills of its members, improve coordination and provide a gateway for external partners.

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.

In Situ Lab, a start-up housed in the ENS de Lyon incubator, has won the “Alternatives vertes 2” call for projects for the UP-BiB - Ultra-passive Bioinspired Buildings - project running in collaboration with the RDP laboratory and the Alkante company. The “Alternatives vertes 2” call for projects is designed to support innovation in the ecological transition of cultural players, and is supported by the French government as part of France 2030's “Supporting Green Alternatives 2” program, operated by the Banque des territoires (Caisse des Dépôts).The project is in its start-up phase at the beginning of April, Teva Vernoux, co-founder of In Situ Lab, explains the broad outlines of the winning project.

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).

On Thursday March 27, 2025, the first Biosymposium of the ENS de Lyon's biology laboratories brought together 350 researchers for a day dedicated to science, exchange and encounters.

On Wednesday 19 March 2025, the CRAL, Lyon's Astrophysics Research Centre, received a visit from the Chilean Ambassador, Mr Raúl Fernández Daza, accompanied by the Honorary Consul of Chile in Lyon, Mr Ignacio Velasco Arellano. The purpose of the visit was to present the CRAL's research activities, and in particular its involvement in major instrumental projects on Chilean telescopes.

Associate professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, New York.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from  April 1 to April 30, 2025
Inviting Professor: Nikolay Tzvetkov

Associate Professor in French literature in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University (Evanston).
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from 20^th of March to 20^th of April, 2024
Inviting Professor: Lucy Rumsey

Associate professor in Psychology in the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 –  from 20 March to 30 April
Inviting Professor: Véronique Traverso

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).

Professor at the University of Nottingham, Department of Economics. Affiliated researcher at CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and external research associate at CAGE (Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy). Deputy Director of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Policy Research (NICEP).
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from 13^th of March to 2^nd of May
Inviting Professor: Cédric Chambru

Scholar at the Institute of Mathematics of the Sciences Academy of Poland
Affiliated professor 2023-2026 from 11 march to 07 April 2024; from 02 march to 06 April 2025 and in April 2026
Inviting professor: Bertrand REMY

Associate Professor at the Élisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation and Associate-Dean of the Faculties of Human Sciences and Philosophy at Saint Paul, University in Ottawa, Canada.
Visiting professor 2024-2025 from 11 November to 11 December 2024
Inviting professor: Bertrand REMY

Associate Professor of Mathematics at Isfahan University of Technology.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from June 1 to July 31, 2025.
Inviting Professor: Nicolas Trotignon.

Monday 11 February marks the 10th consecutive International Day of Women and Girls in Science. It's an opportunity to remember the importance of promoting equal access and participation in science for all. And to find out about the initiatives taken by ENS de Lyon to encourage more women to take up science, particularly in fields where they are under-represented.

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.

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.

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

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

The calls are closed.

ENS de Lyon, which joined the Shape-Med@Lyon project at the start of the academic year, is taking part in the World Health Festival organised from 9^th to the 20^th December 2024 as part of the inauguration of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Academy’s campus in Lyon.

The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the list of recipients of its ‘Consolidator’ grants. Among them are two Lyon-based projects led by Marie-Cécile Caillaud and Aurèle Piazza, both members of the ENS de Lyon.

By Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise. 

Sophie Chiari is a university professor in english literature, IHRIM laboratory member

Following the first awards ceremony on the 15th of October, the Académie des Sciences once again celebrated scientific excellence at a second session on the 26th of November 2024 at the Palais de l'Institut de France.

Archaeologist, Hellenic Ministry of Culture – Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens – Department Member (Curator of the Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus / Athenian Acropolis South Slope) 
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from the 18th to 29th of November 2024
Inviting Professor: Anne-Sophie Noel 

On Tuesday October 15, the French Academy of Sciences unveiled its awards. Congratulations to Physics laboratory members Patrice Abry and Laurent Chevillard, and School alumni.

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.

Publication of the Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell in Molecular Cell, August 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Physics on October 4, 2024.

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

The Middle East and Muslim Worlds (MOMM) Scientific Interest Group (GIS) and the Institute for the Study of Islam and Societies of the Muslim World (IISMM) awarded their thesis prizes on September 26, 2024.

Initiated by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in partnership with Bpifrance, the i-Lab innovation competition aims to encourage the development of French Deep Tech companies. Congratulations to the 2024 winners and, in particular, to the two researchers from our laboratories.

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.