Prix de la recherche for Audrey Pollien

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

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 !

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 !

Seminar Dr Erik Kalz

It is our pleasure to invite you to attend the seminar entitled

Unusual transport in odd-diffusive systems

that Dr. Erik Kalz (Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam) will give on Tuesday, May 5th at 2pm.It will be held in the meeting room (ground floor) of ISIS on the Esplanade campus.

Do not hesitate to contact Dr Cyriaque Genet if you would like to meet Dr. Kalz during his visit.

Welcome Jeanne !

With a bit of delay, we are happy to introduce Jeanne Herry, a phD student sharing her time between Lyon and Strasbourg. Jeanne followed a pluridisciplinary chemistry-physics cursus at ENS Lyon. She completed a first master degree specialized in teaching to obtain agrégation, french diploma for teaching. She then completed a second one, research oriented and dedicated to materials chemistry and advanced characterization techniques. After a training at LCH laboratory, on chirooptical properties of achiral fluorophores coupled to chiral plasmonic nanoparticules, she started her phD in September, cosupervised by Dr Cyriaque Genet and Dr Matthias Pauly (ENS Lyon). Welcome Jeanne !

 

Bye bye Kainã !

We said goodbye one week ago to Kainã Gonçalves Diniz, postdoctoral researcher in our group. He went back to Brasil where he obtained a position of assistant professor in the Optical Tweezers Group at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Congratulations again and all the best for the future !

 

YSS with Audrey

Our phD student Audrey Pollien was one of the YSS speaker this morning, together with Laura Bickerton from Giulio Raggazon’s group. She introduced us to the first results of her phD work about the chiralization of cyanine J-aggregates, in solutions or films, characterized by Mueller polarimetry. To learn more about her, you can read Audrey’s interview on ISIS website (in french or english).

Reading by the fire

What is better in the winter than reading by the fire… even better with scientific papers… We added our last publications on the dedicated page, a blend of electronic strong coupling in the liquid state, of stochastic resetting in an optical trap and of calculations of light scattered by chiral dielectric particles. Enjoy !

End of the year

We had our traditional end of the year lab dinner, around a raclette, on December 10, with most of the team members present, some of them with their family, and one former member who arrived just on time for the party. It was a great pleasure to meet everyone in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.