At the OPTIQUE BFC 2026 conference in Dijon, Hugo Defienne received the Fabry-De Gramont Prize. This prize is awarded annually to a young researcher under the age of 40 whose work stands out for...
Spintronics: Pauline Rovillain Receives the 2024 CNRS Bronze Medal As an associate professor at Sorbonne University and a member of the Paris Institute of Nanosciences (INSP, CNRS / Sorbonne University), Pauline Rovillain studies and...
Corentin Dabard, a former Ph.D. student in the Physical Chemistry and Surface Dynamics team, has received the 2024 C’Nano Thesis Award for interdisciplinary research. His thesis, titled “Synthesis and Characterization of Dual-Color Emitting Nanoplaques,”...
Adrien Khalili Lazarjani, a post-doctoral fellow in the PHYSUF team, has won the Grand Prix of the i-PhD competition. This national competition, organized by Bpifrance, rewards young PhDs with entrepreneurial projects involving disruptive technologies....
Chantal Hareau, a Ph.D. student in the NANOPT team, and Anupam Sharma, a Ph.D. student in the ACONIQ team, received the Best Poster Award at C’Nano, the Nanoscience Meeting 2025, which took place March...
Muyan Zhou, a doctoral student in the Physical Chemistry and Surface Dynamics team, received the Roger Fourme Award for Best Poster at the 20th SOLEIL Users’ Symposium, held January 14–16, 2026. Her thesis, titled...
Benoît Regnier, a former INSP doctoral student, was awarded the 2025 Thesis Prize by the Société Française d’Optique (SFO). He received the award last week at the society’s annual conference, which took place in...
Xixi ZHU, a doctoral student at INSP, attended the 16th EUFOAM European Conference on Foams, held July 6–8, 2026, in Sestri Levante, Italy. She received the Best Poster Award. Her thesis focuses on Coarsenning...
Maria Schmetterer, a doctoral student at the NSP and the CNRS/St. Gobain joint laboratory, received the IUVSTA Peter Barna Award at the 20th International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF) in Biarritz. There, she gave...
For over a century, electromagnetic waves in the MHz to GHz range have revolutionised technology; yet their generation remains limited by macroscopic dimensions. This constraint hampers innovation, as modern systems require precise control of...
