We have a post-doc position available from now and are looking for a person with a background in physical organic chemistry and molecular spectroscopy to study chemical reactivity and other molecular processes under vibrational light-matter strong coupling (see Nagarajan et al, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 16877−16889). Interested persons should send a CV with two references and letter of motivation to ebbesen@unistra.fr.
Last Thursday, Shahana Nizar, phD student in our group, took part to the Young Scientist Seminar of ISIS, at 9.30am, in the conference room, see flyer here below. 
Last week, Lucas Maisonnette arrived in the team to start a M1 training. Lucas is a student in 3rd year at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and will stay among us for 4 months, to work on stochastic thermodynamics experiments and simulations. Welcome to him !
We have the pleasure to have Anjali Jayachandran back in the team. Indeed Anjali was already part of the lab for a 6 months master training in 2018. Then she returned to India where she was involved in a non-profit organization. She is now among us for a short contract of laboratory technician. Welcome back to her !
Rémi Goerlich, who defended in the very end of September, finished his phD contract and after a small break, just left for a postdoctoral position in Israël. After spending close to 4 years in our lab and at IPCMS, as he started as a master 2 student, he will now work in the team of Yael Roichman in Tel Aviv University. We wish him all the best in his new life !
Rémi preraring (veggie) flammekueche (Photo Minghao Li)
We wish our friends, former students and collaborators all around the world a positive, healthy and happy new year !
Last Friday, we had our traditional end of the year group dinner, with former, actual and “about to leave” members of the lab. Indeed, it was also the occasion to say goodbye to Soh Kushida, who left one day later for Japan, where he will work at the Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba University, but also to his fellow, Yoichi Sasaki, who will also leave us at the end of the month. On his side, Yoichi has been hired as assistant professor in the Kimizuka lab, at the Center for Molecular Systems in Kyushu University. Both Soh and Yoichi have been friendly colleagues who were involved in the social life of the team, thus contributing to his good atmosphere, and both worked on new and demanding research projects that recently bear fruits, no doubt that they will come back to finish some experiments !
Good luck to them !
On December 9, in 2002, ISIS building was inaugurated, in the presence of some officials and state representatives, but also through a beautiful scientific symposium including François Diederich, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Harmut Michel. We are thus celebrating its 20th birthday today. The official celebration will take place later on in early 2023, but in the meantime, happy birthday ISIS, with a special thought for his founder Jean-Marie Lehn.
Since one week, we have the pleasure to have a new postdoctoral researcher among us, Dr Sujith Meleppatt. Sujith comes from Kerala, at the very south of India, and did his master in chemistry in Calicut. Then he continued with a phD at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, studying the chirooptical properties of molecules and nanomaterials under the supervision of Pr Georges Thomas. Welcome to him !
Today, Bianca Patrahau, phD student in our group, is leading the Young Scientist Seminar of ISIS, at 9.30am, in the conference room, see flyer here below.