To finish the week, a little picture of our group taken last Friday at ISIS. Our intruder is of course Jean-Pierre Sauvage, our Chemistry Nobel Prize new laureate. Once again, we congratulate him for this !
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Welcome to Yoseline !
Yoseline Rosales Cabara joined our group on October 1st for starting a phD thesis on optical trapping under the supervision of Cyriaque Genet. She did her master degree in the University of Geneva, working on two-photon excited fluorescence by quantum correlated photon pairs. She is installed in room 120 and her email adress is rosalescabara (at) unistra (dot) fr.
Atef is back
As we all miss him in the lab, our former postdoc Atef Shalabney, now in Braude College in Israël, will be back for a three weeks research stay from October 3rd. If you wish to meet him, he will be installed in room 107.
Mini symposium and PhD defense of Gabriel Schnoering
We are pleased to announce for next week a mini-symposium with two seminars on optical forces given by members of the PhD jury of Gabriel Schnoering:
Prof. Mikael KALL, from the Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology,Göteborg, Sweden, on Optically driven plasmonic nanorotors
and Prof. Romain QUIDANT from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, on Nano-optomechanics with an optically levitated nanoparticle
This mini-symposium will take place in the conference room of ISIS, on Wednesday 21th of September at 3pm.
Then the next day, on Thursday 22. at 9.30am, Gabriel will defend his PhD thesis entitled On the Brownian dynamics of a particle in a bistable optical trap. This work has been done under the supervision of Dr. Cyriaque Genet and Prof. T.W. Ebbesen. A small reception will then follow at the 6th floor of ISIS.
May the (optical) force be with him…
Welcome to Joan !
Since the 1st of September, Joan Teixidor has started a six months training in our lab. He is a former master student in microengineering from EPFL Lausanne. During his master project, done in Stanford, he built up a microfluidics system to study the mechanobiology of stem cells under uniaxial stretching. If you want to meet him, he is installed in room 120 and his adress is teixidor (at) unistra (dot) fr.
Departure of Shaojun Wang
Shaojun Wang has left Strasbourg after more than 4 years in our team, for a postdoctoral position in the group of Pr Gomez Rivas at DIFFER in Eindhoven. We wish him and his family all the best for the future !
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.
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.
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)
Atef Shalabney is leaving us
Atef Shalabney who was a postdoc for two years and a half in our group will fly back in Israël next Saturday. We wish him and his family good luck for the future !