📅On April 14, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Benjamin Lenz
✅He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Iridates in the light of dynamic mean-field theory: from low-energy models and the Mott transition to the spectroscopic signatures of spin polarons”
👉 IPCMS' scientific highlight from Chenyue Hu, 3rd year PhD student in IPCMS, from the team of Pr. Silviu Colis and their collaborators...
✒ ACS Applied Electronic Materials,8, 2364-2372 (2026) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
📅 On Friday April 10, 2026 at 11 am, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Thomas Allard from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
✅ He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Manipulating light with time-varying media”
#ipcms #innovation #science
🔍 The Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg is hiring a PhD student for a thesis
👉 The thesis offer and the application procedure are available on the following link: urlr.me/GEAXz6
Aram Yoon: aram.yoon@ipcms.unistra.fr
Ovidiu Ersen : ovidiu.ersen@ipcms.unistra.fr
✅ Today, on Tuesday March 31, at 2:00 pm, Arnaud Jablonski defended his PhD entitled:
“Cancer drug delivery systems: from nanoparticles to nanocomposite hydrogels”
👋Congratulations Arnaud!
📅 On Tuesday March 31, 2026 at 11 am, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Olesia Dmytruk from the Centre de physique théorique (CPHT), Palaiseau.
✅ She will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Majorana bound states in Kitaev chains coupled to photons”
🔎IPCMS Scientific Highlight:
👉Ovidiu Ersen (IPCMS-UNISTRA), Dris Ihiawakrim (IPCMS) and their colleagues have realised a review focused on studies of complex materials such as oxides, biominerals, and organic–inorganic crystals.
✒Reference: Advanced Functional Materials 2026 doi.org/10.1002/adfm...
📸Tuesday 17 March 2026, on the occasion of the "Cordées de la réussite", visits to the IPCMS were organised for high school students to meet researchers and discover their laboratories, facilities and presentations of their work!
👏Many thanks to the IPCMS staff for their involvement and organization
📅 On Monday 23rd March 2026 at 2 pm, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Sébastien Lebègue from the LEMTA, Nancy
✅ He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Some recent advances in 2D materials and surface science seen through ab initio calculations”
📅 On Friday 20th March 2026 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm an IPCMS miniworkshop is presented by Mariana LONGUINHO, a Postdoctoral fellow from the DSI department and by Damien MERTZ a Senior Researcher from the DCMI department.
✅ Their lectures will take place in the IPCMS auditorium.
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📅 On Friday 13th March 2026 at 3:00 pm, an IPCMS seminar is presented by Professor Galo Soler-Illia.
✅ He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Mesoporous thin films: exploiting physics and chemistry in nanoconfinement”.
#ipcms #innovation #science #mediation
📸 Flashback: Thursday 26 February 2026, on the occasion of the French Physicists' Tournament 2026, visits to the IPCMS were organised to meet researchers and discover their laboratories and presentations of their work!
👏 Many thanks to the IPCMS staff for their involvement and organization!
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📅 On Tuesday 24th February 2026 at 11 am, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Gabriela Borin Barin from Empa, Switzerland.
✅ She will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons: the road towards device integration”
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🔎IPCMS Scientific Highlight:
👉Paul-Antoine Hervieux (Professor at IPCMS-UNISTRA) and his physicists colleagues have succeeded in observing diffraction patterns of unprecedented quality.
✒️Article reference: Physical Review Letters 135, 263403 - DOI : 10.1103/wdx6-mrvm
#ipcms #innovation #science
From Monday 9 February to Friday 13 February 2026, come and attend online at the Share Data Week.
🔬 Join our Research Engineer Sébastien Le Roux, for his presentation on Artificial Intelligence: basic concepts, uses and environmental impact.
👉Find out more about the program : urlr.me/ZPaw4X
🔬 THE IPCMS PICTURE OF THE MONTH: From the PhD student Kapp Justine. This image shows the liquid-crystal phase of of an imidazolium salt.
👉 To find more about it : www.ipcms.fr/equipe/mater...
© Capture taken by Heinrich Benoît in an optical polarized microscope
#ipcms #innovation #science
📅On Tuesday 20th January 2026 at 11 am, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Jean-Damien Pillet
✅He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Nonlocality at the Microscopic Scale: The Andreev Molecule in Ultraclean Carbon Nanotubes”
#ipcms#innovation#science
🎀 The IPCMS wishes you a happy holiday season! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
🗓️ The institute will be closed from December 24rd 2025 to January 4th 2026.
✨ See you next year!
#ipcms #innovation #science
🔬 THE IPCMS PICTURE OF THE MONTH: From the MEB-Cro facility
👉 To find more about it, visit our website: www.ipcms.fr
©Plateforme MEB-Cro (IPCMS-ICPEES)
#ipcms #innovation #science
✅ On Wednesday 17th December 2025, at 2:00 pm Léon Schmidt defended his PhD entitled:
“Correlative microscopy for the in situ study of photoanodes used for water photoelectrolysis”
👋Congratulations Léon!
✅ Today, on Monday 15th December 2025, at 9:30 am Zhenghan Feng defended her PhD entitled:
“Dynamic photoactive metallopolymers: synthesis, characterization and photoresponsive gels”
👋Congratulations Zhenghan!
🔬At the ICPAM-17 and the PAMS-8, which took place from November 16 to 23, Chenyue Hu, PhD student at DCMI, won the Applied Surface Science Poster prize, for her poster entitled:
“Impact of Bi vacancies on polarization and transport properties of Bi2FeCrO6 thin films”
👋Congratulations Chenyue Hu!
📅On Tusday 2nd December 2025 at 11 am, an Axis 1 “Quantum sciences and materials” seminar is presented by Yannis Laplace.
✅He will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium on: “Surface plasmonic cavities at TeraHertz frequencies: ultrasmall, chiral and more”
#ipcms #innovation #science #facilities
🔬 THE IPCMS PICTURE OF THE MONTH: From the Engineer: Nicolas Beyer
This prototype piezo-rheometer is specifically designed to analyze the mechanical behavior of materials under controlled deformation.
👉 To find more: www.ipcms.fr/nicolas-beye...
©Nicolas BEYER - IPCMS
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📅Today at 10:30 am, a seminar about the Nobel Prize winners was presented by our colleagues Dietmar Weinmann and Pierre Rabu.
✅They have been giving a talk to do an overview of the Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes of this year related with the scientific activity of our laboratory.
#ipcms#science
✅ Today, on Wednesday 19th November 2025, at 2:00 pm Hilaire Mba defended his PhD entitled:
“Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials”
👋Congratulations Hilaire!
📅 On Friday 21th November 2025 from 2 pm to 3:30 pm an IPCMS Conference 'From nano-to life- sciences' is presented by Pr Ewen BODIO, from the Laboratoire CEISAM and by Dr Célia BONNET from the Laboratoire CBM.
✅ They will be giving a talk in the IPCMS auditorium.
📸 Take a look back at the inauguration of the IPCMS's new Operando Transmission Electron Microscope which took place on Monday, October 13, 2025
🔬 To find more about the TEM, visit our website: www.ipcms.fr/actualite/in...
👉 Or watch the inauguration video: youtu.be/34Gbvn8FBHY?...
✅ Today, on Wednesday 12th November 2025, at 10:00 am Ashfaque Thonikkadavan defended his PhD entitled:
“Spin-Wave Dynamics in Curved Three-Dimensional Magnetic Nanostructures”
👋Congratulations Ashfaque!
✅ Today, on Friday 7th November 2025, at 9:30a.m. Lamiae El Khabchi defended her PhD entitled:
“Spinel Vanadates in thin films: Control of magnetic and electrical properties by growth engineering for Low Power Spintronics applications”
👋Congratulations Lamiae!
