Inauguration of ISIS-2

Yesterday, October 10, the extension of ISIS, called ISIS-2, has been officially inaugurated. It will welcome 2 senior labs, 3 juniors labs and industrial antennas. Moreover, it will also host a datacenter of the University and the two foundations, Fondation Université de Strasbourg and Fondation pour la Recherche en Chimie

A bottle alsacian wine has been sent and broken against the front of the new building, like for the launching of a new boat on the sea, see the little video taken by Artur Cieselski from Paolo Samori’s group.

You can find an article (in french) on the University website and more pictures on the social networks of the University. Here is also a video (in french) taken by the local TV.

Source : Isis-inauguration_DP_VF

Seminar Kevin Kubarych

Kevin Kubarych, from the University of Michigan, is visiting our lab today and tomorrow with two of his collaborators. He will give a seminar entitled

Exploring Vibrational Polariton Dynamics with Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

this afternoon, October 8, at 2.30pm in the meeting room of ISIS.

New members in the lab

Since October 1st, three new people started a contract in the lab. Women first, we will start with Bianca Patrahau, who already came for a summer training last year. After doing two more trainings in Italy and in Switzerland, she is now starting a phD with us. Then Rémi Goerlich, who did his master 2 training in the lab, in collaboration with Dyno group at IPCMS, is also starting a phD now. To finish, we welcome a new postdoctoral researcher, Gian-Lorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani. He is coming from the Physics Department of ETH Zürich where he worked as a postdoc till July 2019, after defending his phD in the end of 2018 on the magneto-transport in engineered vacuum fields.

Bianca and Gian Lorenzo on the 6th floor terrace