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23 December 2025

A Major Step Towards Programmable Polymer Chemistry

The Laboratory of Informational Macromolecular Chemistry led by Dr. Jean-François Lutz has achieved a major breakthrough in the programming of synthetic polymers.

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22 December 2025

Laura Pecorari, from Bologna to Strasbourg: the journey of a young theoretical physicist

Laura Pecorari is currently completing her PhD at the University of Strasbourg in theoretical quantum physics, where she works on new strategies for quantum error correction in neutral atom arrays, under the supervision of Prof. Guido Pupillo.

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9 December 2025

Meeting Amar Bellahsene: At the Heart of Quantum Fluids of Light

Amar is a third-year PhD student at the European Center for Quantum Sciences. Passionate about experimental physics, he works on the realization of quantum fluids of light in a cold atomic medium under the supervision of Professor Shannon Whitlock and Dr. Tom Bienaimé.

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9 December 2025

Let's meet Ferran Esteve, post-doctoral researcher in Jean-Marie Lehn's team

Ferran joined Jean-Marie Lehn’s team in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher and subsequently received a fellowship from the Ramón Areces Foundation and, more recently, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. He works on imination reactions in water.

9 December 2025

Jean-Marie Lehn was awarded the Primo Levi Prize

On December 3, Jean-Marie Lehn was awarded the Primo Levi Prize in Rome in recognition of his exemplary commitment to science and pan-European scientific cooperation.

27 November 2025

Paolo Samorì, 2025 Avogadro Medal laureate

Professor Paolo Samorì, Director of ISIS, received the Avogadro Medal this week, one of the most prestigious distinctions in the chemical sciences.

26 November 2025

Two new ANR awardees at ISIS!

Giulio Ragazzon, senior team leader at ISIS, and Cyrille Solaro, junior team leader, are both recipients of the 2025 ANR call!

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24 November 2025

A la recherche d'un stage ?

Vous êtes en seconde ? Vous vous intéressez au monde de la recherche et vous aimez les sciences et en particulier la chimie et la physique ?

7 October 2025

L'Oréal Unesco Prize for Women in Science

Anna Zhuravlova, a young researcher in the Nanochemistry team, has just been awarded the L'Oréal UNESCO Young Talents France 2025 “For Women in Science” Prize!

31 August 2025

60 years of science, community, and inspiration

On August 28–29, the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering - ISIS hosted a unique event as we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the laboratory founded by Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Lehn, pioneer of supramolecular chemistry (1965-2025).

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24 June 2025

Pietro Tordi's European journey

Pietro Tordi is in his 3rd year of doctoral studies in Professor Paolo Samori's “Nanochemistry” team, working on functional materials based on biopolymers. He has chosen to do his PhD under a joint supervision between France and Italy.

11 June 2025

Prof. Samori and Prof. Pupillo nominated at the Institut Universitaire de France

Two senior team leaders at ISIS have been nominated at the Institut Universitaire de France.

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3 April 2025

Let's meet Kaiyuan Liang, PhD student at ISIS

After completing her bachelor's and master's degrees in one of the most prestigious Chinese university, Kaiyuan joined Giulio Ragazzon's group at ISIS for her PhD, working on ratchet mechanisms powered by chemical energy.

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3 April 2025

Let's meet Jordan Appleton, post-doctoral researcher at the European Center for Quantum Sciences

Jordan Appleton is originally from Newcastle (UK), but has been in Strasbourg for several years now, where he has settled in perfectly. He tells us about his career and his aspirations.

5 March 2025

Welcome to Irene Regeni, new junior team leader at ISIS!

After a PhD in Germany and a post-doctorate in the Netherlands, Irene Regeni officially joined ISIS on 1 March 2025 to head up her own research team in bioinorganic supramolecular chemistry.

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3 February 2025

Get to know Bohdan Kozibroda, PhD student at ISIS and LBP

Bohdan Kozibroda is currently doing his PhD under the joint supervision of Professor Jean-Marie Lehn (ISIS) and Dr Andrey Klymchenko (Bioimaging and Pathology Laboratory), studying dynamic covalent chemistry in lipid nanostructures and living cells. He talks about his career path and his aspirations…

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27 January 2025

Let's meet Shuzhe Yang, PhD student at the European Center for Quantum Sciences

Shuze joined CESQ in 2021 as a PhD student as part of the Innovative Training Network project MOQS (MOlecular Quantum Simulations) funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. He tells us about his academic journey which started in China and his aspirations.

6 January 2025

Martin Karplus passed away

It is with deep sadness and emotion that we learned of the death of Professor Martin Karplus on December 28. Alongside British-American Michael Levitt and Israeli-American Arieh Warshel, Martin Karplus won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 for his work on computer modeling of chemical reactions.

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12 December 2024

A conversation with Vineesha Srivastava, who recently graduated at the European Center for Quantum Science

Vineesha Srivastava is Indian and has very recently defended her PhD in Professor Guido Pupillo’s group at ISIS-CESQ (quantum physics), on the topic of entanglement generation. Previously, she received her engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi. Prior to starting her…

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12 December 2024

Let's meet Benoit Pousse, PhD student at ISIS

Benoit Pousse is a second-year PhD student in Dr Jean-François Lutz’ group at ISIS (chemistry of informational macromolecules), working on oligomers. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Orléans and a master’s degree from the University of Grenoble Alpes.