École normale supérieure de Lyon

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

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, PhD student Noémie Dumont from the IHRIM laboratory at ENS de Lyon distinguished herself at the local finals of the international Francophone competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” by winning the jury’s second prize. She has thus qualified for the regional finals of the competition, which will take place by mid-May 2025.

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

Norbert Danysz, a PhD student in Chinese Studies at IAO – Institute of East Asian Studies – is among the 2025 recipients of the Fondation des Treilles Young Researchers Award.

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 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

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.

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.

Professor of Signal and Image Processing, Institute for Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh
Visiting Professor 2023-2024 from 13 of November to 8 of December 2023
Visiting Professor: Tachella Julian

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

Professor of Mathematics at McGill University, Canada.
Visiting Professor 2024-2025. From December 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025.
Inviting professor: Damien Gaboriau.

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.

Margot Giacinti and Sarah Jean-Jacques are joint recipients of this PhD thesis award.

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 

Full professor of Biochemistry, working in the committees of international affairs and of graduate studies at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo
Visiting professor 2024-2025 from 1^st of November to 31^st of December
Inviting professor: Carlos Marques

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 Chemistry Laboratory in the Journal of Organic Chemistry on March 14, 2024. Communication by CNRS Chemistry on September 3, 2024.

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

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in Nature Photonics on September 2, 2024. CNRS press release on September 4, 2024.

Publication of the LGL-TPE in the journal Nature Astronomy on May 22, 2024. Communication by CNRS Earth & Space on June 19, 2024.

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

Zayna Chaker, CNRS researcher at the IGFL, and Daniel Stilck França, Inria researcher, LIP member, have been awarded the prestigious "Starting" Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Publication of the LGL-TPE in Lithos on June 18, 2024. Communication by UBO on July 8, 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.

Publication by Cédric Chambru, Associate Professor at the Economics Department, in American Political Science Review, August 22, 2023

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.

Public health technologist, head of the entomology laboratory and coordinator of the postgraduate program in biodiversity and health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil.
Visiting professor 2023–2024 from August 9 to August 23, 2024.
Inviting professor: Abderrahman Khila.