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Thibaut Radomme is a senior lecturer in medieval literature at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne and a researcher-teacher at the IHRIM laboratory. He has published the collective volume Des frères mendiants en français with Classiques Garnier.

On Tuesday, October 14, 2025, the Laboratory of Chemistry (LCH) at ENS de Lyon will host Professor Kenichiro Itami, invited through the CNRS Ambassador program. He will present a seminar on the topic of unexplored “carbon” functions.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 30, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Astrophysical Journal to which Adnan-Ali Ahmad, a CNRS researcher at the Lyon Astrophysics Research Center (CRAL), contributed: “Brown Dwarf Formation Through Gravitational Collapse: Insights From 3D Numerical Simulations.” Image: © Adnan-Ali AHMAD and Alex ANDRIX – CRAL

Press release, Villeurbanne, October 9, 2025. The past of the planet Mars continues to captivate the scientific community. One question in particular remains unanswered: did oceans once cover the surface of the Red Planet? Recently, a research team, bringing together numerous French laboratories including the Lyon Geology Laboratory: Earth, Planets, Environment (LGL-TPE – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / ENS de Lyon / CNRS) and the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (LAM – Aix Marseille Université / CNRS / CNES), has been studying the Northern Plains of Mars using various NASA and ESA probes orbiting Mars. They have published their new findings in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Kshama Sharma, a postdoctoral researcher at the CRMN, is among the 2025 winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talents Award, a recognition that supports young female researchers in their careers.

“A Dense Neighborhood Lemma: Applications of Partial Concept Classes to Domination and Chromatic Number”: the paper co-authored by Romain Bourneuf, a PhD student at LIP and LaBRI (Bordeaux), Stéphan Thomassé, one of his PhD supervisors (LIP), and Pierre Charbit (IRIF, Université Paris Cité) has just been selected for the renowned scientific conference FOCS (Foundations of Computer Science).

Researchers at the ESRF – the European Synchrotron –, together with CNRS, ENS de Lyon and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, have unveiled how Atlantic Bluefin tuna transforms the toxic form of mercury into less harmful forms. Their study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, shows that the tuna’s edible muscle contains not only toxic methylmercury, but also mercury bound in stable, non-toxic compounds.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Kunal RAJPUT, IISER Mohali student, completed a three-month internship at the IGFL.

Associate Professor, Executive Director, and Academic Director within the Maine State University System - Monson Seminar.
Visiting professor 2025-2026 from September 15 to October 15, 2025.
Inviting professor: François Specq

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste.
Visiting Professor 2025-2026: From January 5 to January 23, 2026, and from February 3 to February 13, 2026.
Host Professor: Ludovic Bellon 

Full professor and research director at the School of Advanced Social Studies (IDAES) – National University of San Martín
Visiting professor 2025-2026: January 10 to February 20, 2026
Host researcher: Samir Boumedienne

Focus on the scientific publication “Geochemical chronologies in Paranthropus robustus teeth inform habitat and life histories,” published on July 23, 2025, in Nature Ecology and Evolution, to which Vincent Balter, CNRS research director and member of the LGL-TPE laboratory at ENS de Lyon, contributed alongside Andrew Sillen and Christopher Dean.

Delphine Antoine-Mahut, professor of modern philosophy history at ENS de Lyon, and Samuel Lézé, senior lecturer in anthropology of science at ENS de Lyon, both members of IRHIM, have published Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France.

Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Changwon National University
Visiting Professor 2025–2026, from October 15 to December 14, 2025
Inviting Professor: Vincent Krakoviack

Professor of Computer Science at “Kahlert School of Computing” at the University of Utah
Visiting professor 2025-2026 from November 1 to November 30 2025
Inviting professor: Nicolas Trotignon

Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Visiting professor 2025-2026 from September 12 to October 5 2025
Inviting professor: Margarida Costa Gomes

Assistant Professor at UCLA in the Department of Classics
Visiting professor 2025-2026 from November 6 to December 7 2025
Inviting professor: Anne-Sophie Noël

CNRS Communication – July 17, 2025. Based on a scientific publication co-authored by Régis Chirat, researcher at the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, together with Derek E. Moulton and Alain Goriely, professors at Oxford University: “Hierarchical mechanical patterns in morphogenesis: from mollusc shells to plants, fungi and animals”, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface on June 25, 2025.

A themed breakfast event was held in the salons of Lyon’s City Hall on July 4th a part of the COLT 2025 conference held in partnership with AILyS, a center of excellence in artificial intelligence at the Lyon-Saint-Étienne university site, which includes ENS de Lyon. Here’s a look back at this gathering, which brought together specialists from around the world and highlighted the region's and Lyon-Saint-Étienne’s vibrancy in innovation and research in artificial intelligence.

Director of the Institute of Nanosystems at UNSAM, CONICET researcher specialized in nanoarchitectures, and professor at the School of Bio and Nanotechnology.
Affiliated professor 2023-2026 from 24 of May to 26 of June 2024 ; from 21st of September to 1st of November 2025
Inviting professor: Stéphane Parola

Associate professor at the Department of Computer and Network Engineering at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo.
Visiting professor: 2024-2026 from 1st November to 30 november 2024 ; from 20 August to 19 September 2025
Inviting professor: Nicolas Schabanel

Lyon, 8 July 2025 - ENS de Lyon, the CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ITEN and the French National Research Agency (ANR) have announced the launch of the AMIE LabCom (Analysis of Materials and Interfaces for Energy). This strategic partnership, supported by the ANR with €363,000 in funding, brings together academic research and industrial innovation to push the boundaries of ITEN all-solid-state battery performance, sustainability, and eco-responsibility.

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

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.

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).

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.

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As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Kiran PANGHAL, IISER PhD student, completed a three-month PhD stay at the RDP.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Sanika GHADAGE, IISER Bhopal student, completed a three-month internship at the RDP.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Achyusman SAMANTA, IISER Pune student, completed a three-month internship at the IGFL.

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.

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.