École normale supérieure de Lyon

This autumn, three of ENS de Lyon's biology laboratories organized two international conferences. The RDP hosted the 11th Plant Peptides and Receptors Meeting; the IGFL and LBMC hosted the 27th European Drosophila Research Conference. Two major events at ENS de Lyon.

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the journal ACS Catalysis on November 9, 2023. Communication of CNRS Chemistry on November 27, 2023.

Publication of the LBMC in the journal Science on November 9, 2023. Communication of CNRS Biology on November 10, 2023.

Interview with Aurélien Garivier, coordinator of AILyS project at ENS de Lyon.

Horizon, the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, focuses on the project led by Francis Albarède, recipient of an ERC Advanced grant in 2016.

New premises for CIRI and SFR Biosciences.

The IISERs Pune, Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram are offering internships to ENS students. The call for internships is no longer open. 

By Claude Chevaleyre, deputy Director of the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO). Published on October 31, 2023.

On Tuesday November 21, the French Academy of Sciences unveiled its next round of awards. Congratulations to UMPA member Jean-Christophe Mourrat and School alumnus Ludovic Berthier.

Alice Briole, Edwige Cyffers and Aurora Pignata, all graduates of the ENS Lyon, have been awarded grants from the L'Oréal-UNESCO program to support the involvement of young women in scientific research.

By Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Professor at ENS de Lyon, member of the Institute of History of Representations and Ideas in Modernities (IHRIM). Published on October 13, 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.

The international attractiveness of ENS de Lyon is a strategic priority, both in terms of training and research. As the new 2023 academic year begins, we take a look at some of the signs of the vitality and international recognition of our institution. 

Professor of Civil Law at Gakushin University and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, Japan
Visiting Professor 2023-24 - September 1st to 30, 2023
Inviting Professor: Béatrice Jaluzot

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 LBMC in the journal Current Biology, on August 21, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 30, 2023.

Publication of the RDP in the journal Science Advances, on July 19, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 28, 2023.

Publication of the LBMC in the journal Genes and Development, on August 4, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on August 21, 2023.

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature, on August 9, 2023. Press release of CNRS on August 9, 2023.

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature, on July 26, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INEE on August 1st, 2023.

Contribution by Claude Chevaleyre, Deputy Director of the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies, in the book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History , June 15, 2023.

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 IGFL in the journal eLife on June 9, 2023. Communication on Jully 12, 2023.

Contribution by Mathieu Couttenier, Professor at ENS de Lyon, Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict, in the book Mineral extraction and conflict in the era of green technologies: Implications and consequences, June 29, 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.

Through its Consolidator grant, the ERC is supporting the PLEIOTROPY project, led by Marie Sémon (prof. at ENS de Lyon, LBMC) and her team.

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

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Tectonophysics on April 28, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSU on June 12, 2023.

Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN)
Affiliated Professor 2022-24 - (June 2022) June 19 to July 17, 2023 (stay planned in 2024)
Inviting Researcher: Hervé Piégay

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Affiliated Professor 2023-25 - June 15 to July 15, 2023 (Stays planned in 2024 and 2025)
Inviting Researcher: Hervé Piégay

Congratulations to Samuel Angiboust (geology), Anne Benoit (computer science) and Grégory Miermont (mathematics), as well as to the alumni nominated.

Professor, Department of Contemporary History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 28 to June 30, 2023
Inviting Professor: Samuel Lézé

Assistant Professor in Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - June 1st to 28, 2023
Inviting Researcher: Mathieu Couttenier

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the journal Nucleic Acids Research on May 16, 2023. CNRS Press release on May 16, 2023.

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

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the journal Nature Comunication on April 1st, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INC on April 20, 2023.

Publication of the LIP in the ACM MSWiM Conference proceedings on October 24, 2022. Communication of the CNRS-INS2I on April 14, 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

Publication of the CRAL in the journal Science on March 30, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSU on April 14, 2023.

Professor, Department of chemistry and biomolecular sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada
Affiliated Professor 2023-25 - April 21 to May 21, 2023 (Stays planned in January 2024 and April 2025)
Inviting Researcher: Carine Michel

Professor, Department of Education, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - May 22 to June 2, 2023 - June 26 to July 7, 2023
Inviting Researcher: Luc Ria

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

Isabelle Baraffe, member of the CRAL, is Professor of Astrophysics on secondment at the University of Exeter, UK. She is awarded the EAS 2023 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture.

Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Sussex, UK
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 17 to 27, 2023
Inviting Professor: François Specq

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

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

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

Among the ERC Advanced Grant 2022 grantees: TEMPO, Teva Vernoux' proposal.