The team is really growing nowadays and our youngest member is now Hugo Le Doze, master 2 student in the specialty Physics of Quantum and Soft Condensed Matter (PhyQS). He will explore the secrets of stochastic thermodynamics and continue to set up an optical trap in vacuum, working in close relation with Antoine Tartar and Kaina Diniz. Welcome to him !
We have the pleasure to welcome a new postdoctoral researcher since two weeks, Malay Mahato. Malay is originated from Purulia, a district in West Bengal, India. He completed his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2023. His research was then focusing on understanding the charge transfer dynamics in a quantum dot-based donor-acceptor system using transient absorption techniques. Subsequently he moved to Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore, in the group of Dr Anoop Thomas, for a first postdoctoral position where he worked on polaritonic chemistry.
We will have another visitor from Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27, Dima Boriskovsky from Tel Aviv University. He will give a seminar on Wednesday, February 26th at 14:00 am at ISIS on the Esplanade campus, which you are all welcome to attend.
Since almost two weeks, we have the pleasure to welcome back Luis Pires, now assistant professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil), for one month in the lab. And next week, Atef Shalabney, from Braude College (Karmiel, Israel), will also come back for a shorter one week stay. Who else is missing the lab and Strasbourg winter cold ?
We had a farewell dinner last monday to say good bye to Shahana Nizar, who was among us since more than 4 years. After a phD and a postdoc in the lab, she will start a second postdoc in March, in the group of Anna Painelli in Parma University. All the best Shahana !
Last week, our new postdoc Tamaghna Chowdury arrived just on time to enjoy the cold in Strasbourg. Tamaghna comes from Chittaranjan, a railway township in West Bengal, India. He completed his Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2017. Subsequently, he completed his integrated Master’s and PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Maharashtra, in November 2024. His PhD thesis focused on the modulation of the optoelectronic properties of 2D materials through strain, twist, and dielectric engineering. He will be working half time here and half time with the group of Stéphane Berciaud in IPCMS.
We celebrated the end of the year all together last week : our indian students cooked delicious chicken biryani and paneer curry, with raïta and chapatis. Others brought starters and desserts and we shared food and good mood at the 6th floor of ISIS, before the end of the year break.
Happy festive season to all our visitors, friends and collaborators around the world !
Since the end of last week, Pr Paulo Maia Neto, from Physics Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is back in Strasbourg for a one month stay, as last year, in the context of the CAPES COFECUB project we are sharing together.
Moreover, he will give a the seminar entitled
The Casimir Interaction in Electrolyte Solutions
on Thursday December 19th at 10.30 am, at ISIS (meeting room, ground floor). If you wish to meet him, don’t hesitate to contact Dr Cyriaque Genet.
Weijian Tao, who was working as postdoctoral researcher in our lab for 2 years left us at the end of last week. He will start another postdoctoral contract in January 2025 in the USA, at Purdue University, in the group of Pr Libai Huang. We thank him for the nice interactions with our group and wish him good luck for the future !
Weijian’s departure lunch at Le Cèdre, Strasbourg
Our group is growing again and we welcomed last week a new postdoc, Sumit Yadav. He was born in the state of Haryana, North-India, and he recently defended his phD in physics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali. During this phD, he worked on the effects of optical nonlinearity in optical tweezers using femtosecond pulsed lasers and on the application of laser beam shaping in optical tweezers. He will work more closely with LIMACS team, on Mueller polarimetry setup and chiral coupling. Welcome in the lab !
