École normale supérieure de Lyon

The list of winners of the CNRS 2025 medals was unveiled on June 16, 2025. Three members of ENS de Lyon are among them! They are Gwyneth Ingram, CNRS researcher and director of the Plant Reproduction and Development laboratory (silver medal); Benjamin Wesolowski, CNRS research fellow at the Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (bronze medal); and Stéphanie Durand, CNRS researcher and seismologist at the LGL-TPE (bronze medal). Alumni of ENS de Lyon are also among the distinguished scientists.

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

Professor of matrix and disease biology, coordinator of the undergraduate degree in genetics at the University of Glasgow.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from June 16 to July 25, 2025
Visiting professor : Florence Ruggiero

Associate Professor and Project Assistant Professor at the Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 from 1^st to 31^st of July, 2025
Inviting Professor: Thomas Widiez

Anne Verjus is a research director at the CNRS, Section 40 (Politics, Power, Organization), and director of the Triangle laboratory. She is publishing Abolir le patriarcat : l’utopie féministe de James Henry Lawrence (1773-1840).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor of English at Northwestern University
Visiting professor 2023-2024 from18 April to 1^st May 2024
Inviting professor: Lacy Rumsey

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).

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.

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.

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 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, 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 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

faculty member in the Faculty of Pedagogy at the Lebanese University.
Affiliated professor 2024-2025 from 23 June to 27 July 2025
Inviting professor: Luc Ria

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

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

University Professor at Kansai Gaidai University (Kansai University of Foreign Studies).
Visiting Professor 2024–2025 from February 21 to March 28, 2025.
Inviting Professor: Arnaud Nanta

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

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

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, 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.

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

The calls are closed.

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.

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.

By Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise. 

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

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.