August 2025
CNRS press release dated August 20, 2025. Following a scientific publication to which several members of the High Field NMR Centre in Lyon contributed, namely Andrew J. Pell, lecturer-researcher (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Claude Bernard University), Anne Lesage, engineer (CNRS/University of Lyon/ENS de Lyon), and Guido Pintacuda, researcher (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Claude Bernard University): “Coordination environments of Pt single-atom catalysts from NMR signature”, published in Nature on June 4, 2025.
Régis Guyon, deputy director of the French Institute of Education (IFÉ), and Hélène Buisson-Fenet, director of research in Sociology at the CNRS and member of the Triangle laboratory, have published L’École écologique : s’ajuster ou transformer ? (The eco-friendly school: to adapt or to transform?) with ENS Éditions.
CNRS press release dated 23 July 2025. Based on a scientific publication to which Guido Pintacuda, a researcher at the Very High Field NMR Centre in Lyon (CNRS/ENS de Lyon/Claude Bernard University), contributed: ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Resolution in Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Biomolecules with 160 kHz Magic-Angle Spinning’, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
CNRS press release dated 23 July 2025. Based on a scientific publication to which members of the Lyon Astrophysics Research Centre (CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Claude Bernard University) and the LPENSL Physics Laboratory (CNRS, ENS de Lyon) contributed: ‘A Core-sensitive Mixed f/g-mode of the Sun Predicted by Wave Topology and Hydrodynamical Simulation’, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Audrey Rieber, senior lecturer (HDR) in philosophy at ENS de Lyon and member of IHRIM, has published Philosopher avec l’histoire de l’art (Philosophising about Art History).
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.
Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentInvited professor 2025-2026 from September 12 to October 5 2025Inviting professor: Margarida Costa Gomes
Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Changwon National UniversityVisiting Professor 2025–2026, from October 15 to December 14, 2025Inviting Professor: Vincent Krakoviack
July 2025
The AI breakfast brought together experts from all over the world in the lounges of Lyon's City Hall
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.
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.
Welcome to our new students and staff! Find here the welcome booklets, the guides that will take you through ENS de Lyon.
Welcome to our new students and staff! Find here the welcome booklets, the guides that will take you through ENS de Lyon.
Welcome and congratulations on joining ENS de Lyon!
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 2025Inviting 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 2025Inviting professor: Nicolas Schabanel
Launch of the AMIE LabCom: A Scientific and Industrial Alliance For Ever More Efficient and Eco-Friendly ITEN All-Solid-State Batteries
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.
Congratulations to Louise Gerbier, ENS de Lyon alumna, on her scholarship to Oxford.
ENS de Lyon has once again been awarded the 3-star “Bienvenue en France” label for the quality of its facilities for international students.
June 2025
Sonia Goldblum will succeed Emmanuelle Boulineau as Vice-President for Academic Affairs at ENS de Lyon on September 1, 2025.
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.
This year, 23 alumni and one teacher-researcher from the Computer Science department have been named members of the Institut Universitaire de France, for a 5-year term starting October 1, 2025, representing 12% of those appointed. This is a wonderful recognition for each and every one of them, and for our school. We offer them our warmest congratulations.
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 2025Inviting 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, 2025Visiting professor : Florence Ruggiero
Associate Professor and Project Assistant Professor at the Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City UniversityVisiting Professor 2024-2025 from 1st to 31st of July, 2025Inviting 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 - XIXe-XXIe 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).