2016 : new year, new people !

A new year is starting and we wish all the best to our past and present collaborators all around the world ! To start on a good basis, we welcome two new postdoctoral researchers in our group this week :

The first one, Robrecht Vergauwe, is not an unknown as he already spent a month with us last autumn. He prepared his PhD (entitled Study of the conformational dynamics of the von Willebrand factor with single molecule fluorescence microscopy) in Leuven under the supervision of Johann Hofkens and defended in 2014. He is back now for a longer stay and will share his time between our team and Vladimir Torbeev’s group for a project at the interface with biology.

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The second one,Stefano Azzini defended a PhD in physics in Pavia in 2013 and specialized himself on optical properties of micro and nano cavities integrated in semi conductors. He then joined Joël Bellessa’s group in Lyon at Institut Lumière-Matière for a first postdoctoral position. If you have any question about entangled photons or Tamm plasmons, please come and meet him !

Shaojun Wang PhD defense

We are pleased to announce the PhD defense of Shaojun Wang on Friday September 11. His work, entitled Strong light-molecule coupling: routes to new hybrid materials, has been performed under the supervision of Pr. Ebbesen. The defense will take place at the Salle des thèses, Nouveau Patio on Esplanade Campus, at 10am.

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The pot de thèse will then take place at the 6th floor of ISIS.

Related to this and to the venue of two external jury members, Mikael Käll (Chalmers University in Göteborg) and David Norris (ETH, Zürich)  there will be a mini-symposium Labex NIE on Thursday 10. at 2pm at IPCMS (more information)