We have the great pleasure to announce that Thomas Ebbesen will be the next recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal which is the most prestigious french scientific prize. It was created by the CNRS in 1954 and one can find the full list of laureates on the wiki page, among whom Louis De Broglie, Pierre Gilles de Gennes or Jean-Marie Lehn…See also the CNRS publication about it.
An official ceremony will take place in Paris in October 2019.
Congratulations Thomas !
Dr Marcus Seidel finished his two years contract in our lab last week. He will now take a short break to take care of an important and demanding experiment, becoming a full-time father, before going for another position in Germany. We wish him and his family all the best for the future !
As each year since 10 years, Strasbourg Eurometropole and CADR67 are organizing a challenge to promote the use of bicycles to go to work, called Au boulot à vélo . At ISIS, we are also taking part under the banner of the University and CNRS. Remember : University and CNRS won in 2017 and 2018 (category public company of more than 500 employees) so why not one more time ! Here below some ISIS members who are bicycle-addicts.
Stefano Azzini ended his postdoctoral position in our group last week. He left for the University of Trento, where he got a position of assistant professor in the Nanolab group of the Physics department. Grazie mille Stefano and all the best in the future !
Here below some souvenirs with him !
This week, we will have the pleasure to receive Pr. George Thomas from IISER Thiruvananthapuram for the second time. He will give a conference at ISIS on Wednesday, the 15th of May at 4.30pm, entitled
Coupling of Elementary Excitations : Drawing Parallels Between Excitons and Plasmons
that will take place in the salle de conférence of ISIS.
Pr Wybren Jan Buma, from Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences in Amsterdam University will be visiting our lab next week, on March 28th and 29th. He will give a conference on March 28th at 4.30pm in the salle de conférence, entitled
Tailoring Photoactive Materials : Light on the dark side of the force
Don’t forget your lightsaber…
Since last week, we are welcoming a new master 2 student, Rémi Goerlich, in cooperation with the Dyno group at IPCMS. He will work with Yoseline Cabara-Rosalès and Samuel Albert on the stochastic protocols in an optical trap.
Welcome to him !
Related to our publication in Science, here is a nice article of Andy Extance on Chemistry World, featuring Lucas Lethuillier and Kalaivanan Nagarajan as guest-stars.
Savoir(s), the magazine of the University of Strasbourg has also interviewed Thomas Ebbesen and Anoop Thomas. Here is the article, in french that time, illustrated by a nice picture in front of our FIB system.
Source : Pascal Bastien
On Wednesday 13th of February, Thomas Ebbesen received his prize, le grand prix 2018 de la fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, during a special colloquium “Chimie et Alexandrie dans l’Antiquité”. Congratulations again !
Source : http://www.unistra.fr
To start the week, here is winter group picture taken on ISIS terrace during the new year celebration of the institute, on January 24th.
Thanks to Caroline Schneider, our photograph !
