École normale supérieure de Lyon

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 ENS de 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. 

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).

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

Publication of the LBMC  in the journal PNAS on August 7, 2023. Communication of CNRS-INSB on September 8, 2023.

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 Peace not Pollution: How Going Green Can Tackle Climate Change and Toxic Politics, June 29, 2023.

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.

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.

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

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Nature Physics on May 4, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INSIS on May 9, 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 LIP in the ACM MSWiM Conference proceedings on October 24, 2022. Communication of the CNRS-INS2I on April 14, 2023.

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.

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

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

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

Professor of Biological NMR Spectroscopy, Director of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center and of the Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University
Visiting Professor 2022-2023 – from 1^st to 30^th of April, 2023
Inviting Professor: Anne Lesage and Guido Pintacuda

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.

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the journal PNAS on March 7, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INC on March 28, 2023.

Publication of the Chemistry Laboratory in the journal Nanomedicine on March 17, 2023. Communication of the CNRS-INC on March 20, 2023.

To celebrate this anniversary, the institute is organizing an international symposium on March 30 and 31 on its main research areas: volutionary biology, Development, and Physiology and Research at their interfaces.

Lesaffre press release of March 20, 2023.

Publication of the CIRI in the journal Science Translational Medicine on March 15, 2023. Press realease of the INSERM on March 17, 2023.

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - March 8 to April 5, 2023
Inviting Professor: Jens Hasserodt