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(Another) PhD defense and (another) mini-symposium

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Ten days after Anjali, it is Antoine Tartar’s turn to defend his phD, entitled

Thermodynamic cycles at small scales: stochastic temperature resetting processes and Brownian engines

This phD was carried out under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet and the defense will take place on Wednesday, September 23th at 2 pm in ISIS conference room.

On this occasion, there will be a mini-symposium on Thermodynamics of Complex Systems on September 23rd at 9 am, same place. Please find the program here below

  • 9:00 – 9:40 : Thermodynamics at small scales, nano-heat engines, and levitated particles, Loïc Rondin, LuMIn, ENS Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS, Université de Paris-Saclay
  • 9:40 – 10:20 : Energetics and dynamics of single particles on membranes, Antonio Stocco, Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, Strasbourg
  • 10:20 -10:40 : Break
  • 10:40 – 11:00 : A modelling framework for non-Gaussian transport in complex media, Vittoria Sposini, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, University of Padova
  • 11:20 – 12:00 : Inertial Brownian dynamics of a particle in complex beams, Mathias Perrin, LOMA, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux

 

Welcome Guilherme !

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A little late, due to the summer break, we are happy to introduce a new postdoctoral researcher, Luis Guilherme Tenorio Moura (aka Guilherme), who arrived in July and will stay with us for one year in the framework of our CAPES-COFECUB project. He did his PhD in physics, at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, during which he worked with structured light in the context of optical tweezers to measure chirality of single particles.
Here, under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet, Guilherme will study chirality detection at the equilibrium position of a particle in a chiral medium. He is interested in controlling the light degrees of freedom to customize optical traps for different applications. Welcome in the team !

PhD Defense and mini-symposium

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It our pleasure to announce that Anjali Jayachandran will defend her phD, entitled

Fundamental physical chemistry of vibrational strong coupling

on September 14th, at 2pm, in ISIS conference room. This work was carried out under the supervision of Thomas Ebbesen and Cyriaque Genet.

On this occasion, there will be a mini-symposium on the chemistry and physics of light-matter interactions on September 15th at 9am, same place. Please find the program here below and the abstracts of the talks in this link.

  • 9:00 – 9:40 Coherence as a probe of ultrafast dynamics, entropy as a resource, Gregory D. Scholes, Chemistry Department, Princeton University
  • 9:40 – 10:00 What can strong coupling do for organic chemists?, Julia Kalow, Chemistry Department, Northwestern University
  • 10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
  • 10:30 – 11:10 Tamm modes for the development of laser sources, Clémentine Symonds, University of Lyon and CNRS
  • 11:10 – 11:50 Ab Initio Advances in Polaritonic Chemistry: Chemical Control through a QEDFT Framework, Angel Rubio, MPI for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, & Flatiron Institute, NY

Welcome Merin !

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Since one month we have welcome a new postdoctoral researcher in the team, Merin Varghese Pulikkottil, from Kerala, India. Merin completed her BSc and MSc in Chemistry and then pursued her PhD at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, under the supervision of Prof. K. George Thomas. During her PhD, she explored exciton dynamics in colloidal nanocrystals, with a focus on understanding their excited-state properties using time-resolved spectroscopic techniques, mainly transient absorption and single-particle spectroscopy. Building on this background in excited-state dynamics and spectroscopy, she is now eager to explore light–matter interactions in the strong coupling regime and understand how strong coupling can influence molecular and material properties. Welcome Merin !

Another prize for Anjali

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After the Poster Prize during the last eMRS Spring Meeting, this year Anjali Jayachandran received the Young Researcher Award “in recognition for her outstanding contribution to the Symposium O (Polaritonics for next generation materials)”. Congratulations Anjali !

Prix de la recherche for Audrey Pollien

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We are delighted to announce that our phD student, Audrey Pollien, received the research award (Prix de la recherche) at the graduation ceremony on May 22 at ENS Paris Saclay. This award is given annually to two students from all disciplines for the excellence of their research achievements. On this occasion, Audrey gave a very interesting talk on her vision of research which can be viewed on youtube. (Between 59mn and 1h04mn).

Congratulations Audrey !

Sources : ENS Paris Saclay and Audrey Pollien

 

YSS for Antoine

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After Audrey Pollien three months ago, it was the turn of Antoine Tartar to give a talk at the Young Scientist Seminar of ISIS last week. He recalled us how a motor is working and showed that thanks to an optical trap made of a tightly focused laser beam, one can emulate a motor at the microscale, and optimize its energetic costs. Congratulations for the talk and… for the wedding that happened the day after !


Welcome Salambô !

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We have the pleasure to announce the arrival of a new permanent member in the LIMACS group ! Salambô Dago joined the team in February 2026 with a position of CNRS researcher. She got her PhD at the Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS Lyon on Thermodynamics of information, under the supervision of Ludovic Bellon and Sergio Ciliberto. She later joined the Aspelmeyer group in the University of Vienna to start a Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellowship on feedback control of quantum levitated particles,  under the supervision of Nikolai Kiesel.
She will now continue working on optimal control of levitated nano-object to study energy exchanges and thermodynamics at the nano-scale, from the classical to the quantum regime. Welcome to her !