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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).

The 5th French Chemists' Tournament took place on March 28 and 29, 2025 at Sorbonne Université. Congratulations to the Quebec team (Université de Sherbrooke/Université de Montréal/Université Laval) who won the tournament, and to our team who won several prizes.

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.

CNRS communication dated April 1, 2025. Based on a scientific publication by David Loffreda, Nathalie Tarrat, Corinne Lacaze-Dufaure, Franck Rabilloud, Katia Fajerwerg, Myrtil L. Kahn, Vincent Collière, Christine Lepetit and Pierre Fau in Nano Today.

A new agreement has been signed between UQAM and ENS de Lyon.

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.

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).

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.

Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Full Professor of the History of Modern Philosophy at ENS de Lyon (IRHIM), and Daniel Whistler, Senior Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of London Royal Holloway, publish “Philosophical Fragments, Victor Cousin - Critical Edition by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Daniel Whistler”.

A new student residence is due to open at the start of the 2027 academic year, on Monod Campus.

Associate professor, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, New York.Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from  April 1 to April 30, 2025Inviting Professor: Nikolay Tzvetkov

Associate Professor in French literature in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University (Evanston).Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from 20th of March to 20th of April, 2024Inviting Professor: Lucy Rumsey

Associate professor in Psychology in the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna.Visiting Professor 2024-2025 –  from 20 March to 30 AprilInviting Professor: Véronique Traverso

faculty member in the Faculty of Pedagogy at the Lebanese University.Affiliated professor 2024-2025 from 23 June to 27 July 2025Inviting 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 13th of March to 2nd of MayInviting Professor: Cédric Chambru

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

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 2024Inviting professor: Bertrand REMY

Scholar at the Institute of Mathematics of the Sciences Academy of PolandAffiliated professor 2023-2026 from 11 march to 07 April 2024; from 02 march to 06 April 2025 and in April 2026Inviting 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.

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.

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.

ENS de Lyon has become the coordinator of Nanomer, its first Erasmus+ Capacity Building project. Nanomer is a great initiative in the field of nanoscience which involves both research and education. It also aims at sharing knowledge and building a lasting partnership between Latin America and Europe. With 16 partner institutions from France, Spain and Latin America, this project carries strong human and academic values.

PhD mobility from India to France: the campaign is closed.

Thomas Buchert, professor at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and member of CRAL's AstroEns team, has been awarded the international Tullio Levi-Civita prize for his innovations in Relativistic Cosmology.

Since 2010, the East Asia Institute (IAO) has been celebrating the Lunar New Year at ENS de Lyon. Through its association with this global event, which brings together nearly a billion people every year, the strength of the School's links with Asia is also expressed. A cultural and joyful tribute, whose beautiful posters, over the years, retrace the programme. 

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