Category Archives: People

Autumn visitors

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After 5 weeks in the lab, Aiswarya Edakkandiyil is close to the end of her stay among us. She is a visiting phD student from Pr. K.George Thomas group who came to characterize her chiral molecules on our polarimetry experiment.

10 years after his departure from the lab, where he was working as a postdoctoral researcher, we are also hosting Atef Shalabney, but for a longer time. Indeed, Atef will be with us till next summer, in detachment from Ort Braude College. He is staying in room 131.

In the framework of the CAPES COFECUB program, we are welcoming since one week Felipe Rosa, assistant professor from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for 2 months in our lab. Felipe is a specialist of Casimir forces. He will be in office 104. Don’t hesitate to pass by if you wish to meet him !

To finish, our former student, Shahana Nizar, now in postdoc in University of Parma, was missing the Mueller setup and she is back this week for some more experiments. You can find her behind the black curtain in room 121.

Welcome to all of you !

Welcome Audrey !

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On September 1st, we welcomed a new phD candidate, Audrey Pollien.  Audrey is a student from ENS Paris-Saclay. She already spent one year abroad in 2023/2024 as a predoctoral training, in Heidelberg, in the group of Pr Petra Tegeder. There she studied the optical properties of some molecules (3rd order generation and circular dichroism by two photons absorption). Then she completed her master 2, called CHIPS (Inorganic, Physical and of Solid Chemistry) during which she did another training in PPSM laboratory (Paris-Saclay) on chiroptical properties of 3D chiroplasmonic assemblies. She is now starting her phD under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet on the topic of chiral matter-chiral cavities coupling. Welcome Audrey !

Football

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Last Thursday the annual football tournament of Strasbourg chemistry faculty took place and one team defended the colors of our labs (Nanostructures and LIMACS) : The Vibrators. Thanks to their intensive training (they played once together the day before), they reached the quarter finals. So maybe next year, with two more trainings, one can hope for a place in final ! Congratulations to them all for the participation !

Visit of Kalaivanan

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We had the pleasure to welcome Dr Kalaivanan Nagarajan, who was a postdoc in our lab from 2017 to 2022, for a few days this week. He naturally reinvested his office 108 shared with Dr Eloïse Devaux, as his name is still on the door, and gave us a nice talk entitled “Perturbing a Chemical Equilibrium through Vibrational Strong Coupling”, about the latest research that he is conducting in his group at TIFR (Tata Institute of Fudamental Research), Mumbai.

UnMySt

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We had the pleasure to host the kick-off meeting of the ERC Synergy project UnMySt (Unravelling the mysteries of vibrational strong coupling) in Strasbourg last week, from May 20 to 22. It was the opportunity for the participants to meet and start to know each other, their skills and projects, and to define together the way we would like to handle the next meetings and the topics to target for the future. Thanks to all for the fruitful discussions !

Happy birthday

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It’s been 10 years today that the first post of this website was published. During those 10 years, a lot of people have been part of the lab, for an internship, a phD or a postdoctoral position. I tried not to forget anybody, at least those whose stayed for three months or more with us since May 2015. Thanks to all for you past and present contributions and happy birthday to the website !

Welcome Pradyut !

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We are delighted to welcome one more postdoctoral researcher, in collaboration with Pr Giulio Ragazzon’s group, Dr. Pradyut Roy, from West Bengal, India. Pradyut joins us after completing his integrated MS-PhD degree at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Chemistry from Garbeta College, affiliated with Vidyasagar University. His PhD work focused on investigating energy and charge transfer dynamics in the multicomponent donor–acceptor assemblies composed of environmentally friendly semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). At ISIS, he will now delve into the vibrational strong coupling (VSC) and its impact on the properties of materials and molecules. Welcome Pradyut !

Welcome José !

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Our newest member, José Lopes Roque arrived one week ago in Strasbourg. He was born and raised in Leiria (Portugal). He holds both a bachelor and a master degree in chemistry from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), oldest University in Portugal (1290) and one of the oldest in Europe. In 2020, he started a PhD in chemistry at the same institution, under the supervision of Pr Rui Fausto. His work focused on chemical reactivity driven by quantum tunneling, in particular for reactive intermediates trapped in cryogenic noble-gas matrices. He spent one year at the Justus-Liebig Giessen University (Germany) in the group of Pr Schreiner, as part of his PhD, and defended in February 2025. Welcome José !

Welcome Annie !

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Since two weeks, we have the pleasure to welcome Annie Cleetus, from Kerala, India. She got her PhD from Ariel University in Israel, where she focused on exploring electro-catalysts for ammonia oxidation. Her research involved various electrochemical and in situ-characterization techniques to understand the catalyst`s activity, stability and selectivity. Prior to that she majored in Chemistry after a combined BS-MS from IISER Bhopal, India where she also undertook projects in crystallography, mainly in solving crystal structures of organic molecules. She will be working on a project in collaboration with the group of Pr. Petra Hellwig, at the Faculty of Chemistry, Strasbourg, to develop electrochemical approaches towards strong coupling for investigating the reactivity of redox active molecules.

Welcome Hugo !

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The team is really growing nowadays and our youngest member is now Hugo Le Doze, master 2 student in the specialty Physics of Quantum and Soft Condensed Matter (PhyQS). He will explore the secrets of stochastic thermodynamics and continue to set up an optical trap in vacuum, working in close relation with Antoine Tartar and Kaina Diniz. Welcome to him !