The annual and official ceremony of Strasbourg University for the phD graduation took place on friday 21st of June in the Palais Universitaire. Our freshly graduated students, who all defended during fall 2023, participated and we congratulate them again for this accomplishment !
From left to right : Dr Bianca Patrahau, Dr² Luis Pires and Dr Shahana Nizar Shyla
Photo : Anjali Jayachandran
Last friday we took the time to have a lab outing. Weather was a bit uncertain but we did a nice 15 km walk around the Mont Saint-Odile, with some highlights like an unexpected detailed explanation about Ottrott’s castles, a picnic under the rain, a short visit of Hohenbourg abbey and a miraculous water tasting…. Congratulations to all the hikers !
Following the EMRS spring meeting, we had dinner in La Victoire, like in the good old days, with our alumni present at the conference. It was a pleasure to see you all !
Following the poster session of symposium Polaritonics for next generation materials, in the context of EMRS2024 conference, Anjali got the first prize for her poster Role of Symmetry in Charge Transfer Complexation under Vibrational Strong Coupling
Congratulations to her and to the recipient of the 2nd prize Niklas Hermann !
Photo Jino George : Anjali and Niklas surrounded by the organizers of the symposium from left to right : Kei Murakoshi, Anoop Thomas, Tal Schwartz and Michael Ruggenthaler.
Thomas Ebbesen has been nominated to the Presidential Science Council that advises President Macron on science policy, emerging disciplines, national strategy and priorities. This council was established in December 2023 and he is one of 14 members covering many academic disciplines.
Crédit Photo : Elysée
Our latest paper, presenting results obtained in collaboration with two other groups from ISIS (Joseph Moran‘s group and Giulio Raggazon‘s group) has just been accepted in Angewandte Chemie. Fabry-Perot optical cavities were developed to characterize Vibrational Strong Coupling (VSC) by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and we demonstrate that the London dispersion-driven conformational equilibrium of a molecular balance is altered when the C–H stretching vibration is strongly coupled to the cavity. Unexpectedly, VSC does not substantially affect molecular electron density distributions which has profound implications for the possible mechanisms at play in polaritonic chemistry.
Savoir(s), the journal of Strasbourg University, published in its last edition an article about the <Q|TT|S> (Quantum Think Tank Strasbourg), co-created by Giovanni Manfredi, Paul-Antoine Hervieux and Cyriaque Genet. The first event organized in ISIS was a success and we are looking forward to attending the next one !
Source : Savoir(s)
With a bit of delay, here is the traditional “Women’s day” group picture of women working in ISIS, where three members of our team are present, together with Jean-Marie Lehn and ISIS new director, Jean-François Lutz.
Photo : C. Schneider
Note that in the same line, we will receive on March 15 a group of high school students in our lab, in the framework of the event “Sciences, un métier de femmes“, to promote scientific professions among young women.
Since 10 days now, we have a new member in the team, Giovanni Mormina, who is currently taking the courses of the master Condensed Matter and Nanophysics in Strasbourg. Before coming in Alsace, he completed his education at the University of Bordeaux and his previous internships at the Laboratoire d’Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine.
He is now starting a four-month internship at ISIS on stochastic thermodynamics and will work under the direction of Cyriaque Genet. Welcome to him !
We had a small celebration last Tuesday for the 70th birthday of Thomas Ebbesen, kindly organized by the members of the Fondation Jean-Marie Lehn. Thanks again for their welcome !
Crédit photo : Sandrine Fournier