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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).

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.

2 December 2024

A new ERC Consolidator for CESQ

Johannes Schachenmayer, researcher at the European Center for Quantum Sciences, is awarded with a European Research Council "Consolidator" grant for his project MATHLOCCA (Many-body Theory of Local Chemistry in Cavities).

29 November 2024

Paolo Samorì Awarded the 2024 Luigi Tartufari Prize in Physics and Chemistry

The prestigious Luigi Tartufari 2024 Prize in Physics and Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Paolo Samorì by the Italian National Academy for his outstanding contributions to the fields of nanochemistry, nanoscience and functional materials.

6 November 2024

An ERC Synergy Grant for ISIS

Thomas Ebbesen and Cyriaque Genet, in partnership with teams from the University of Tel Aviv, the University of Pennsylvania and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, won a Synergy grant from the prestigious European Research Council.

18 October 2024

Paolo Samorì joins the elite of German science and engineering

The official nomination ceremony took place on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 in Berlin.

14 October 2024

Jean-François Lutz, winner of the Langevin Prize 2024

The French Academy of Sciences awarded the Langevin Prize to Jean-François Lutz, for his work on “informational” polymers.