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» École normale supérieure de Cachan
 ENS de Cachan is a prestigious public institution of research and higher education, founded in 1912. With its multidisciplinary departments and their associated research laboratories, ENS de Cachan provides its students with a high-level cultural and scientific training. The background they acquire in this favourable intellectual and cultural environment allows them to embrace promising and exciting careers in keeping with their personal interests and ambitions.
 The d’Alembert Institute defines and manages research projects involving fundamental or applied issues pertaining to molecular photonics. Applications are promoted by the sharing of a common knowledge and know-how substrate in the area of light-molecule interactions and range from information technologies to biotechnologies. Projects supported by the Institute are targeted towards specific endgoals enabled by a network of joint technology based facilities. Effective sharing of competences and facilities in this highly cross-disciplinary domain is a trademark of the Institute.
Web site: http://www.ens-cachan.fr/
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Erasmus Mundus contacts
Prof. Isabelle LEDOUX-RAK, e-mail: ledoux@lpqm.ens-cachan.fr
Phone: 33 1 47 40 55 60
General contact and address
Institut d’Alembert – École Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Director: Prof. Joseph ZYSS – e-mail: zyss@lpqm.ens-cachan.fr
Secretary: Magdalena Keska – e-mail: mkeska@lpqm.ens-cachan.fr
Phone: 33 1 47 40 55 62 – Fax: 33 1 47 40 20 67
61, avenue du Président Wilson – 94235 – Cachan - France
International Office
Service des relations internationales - Bogdana NEUVILLE
Tel: (+33) 1 47 40 21 71 – Fax: (+33) 1 47 40 23 79 – e- mail: sri@ens-cachan.fr |
• Research: D’Alembert Institute
The d'Alembert Institute is a crossdisciplinary federation created in January 2002 comprising four research laboratories, all members of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan academic institution.
The Institute guides and coordinates the set of research activities undertaken by these laboratories, around the pervading topic of molecular photonics and its broad range of applications in fields related to information technologies and biotechnologies.
Of the Institute's 225 total laboratory personnel, approximately 150 are actively involved in research work (including some one hundred permanent staff members), via 14 scientific projects and 8 technical shared facilities that house testing equipment servicing the member laboratories.
Scientific missions of d’Alembert Institute
The Institute's guiding principle serves to orient its actions and purpose in the area of molecular photonics at the crossroads of the physical sciences and the life sciences.
The Institute is responsible for conducting a dual action program that overlaps fundamental research and applied analyses:
- Fundamental studies are devoted to the basic mechanisms of the light-matter interaction that underlie technological materials as well as biological structures.
- The fields of application pertain, from a general perspective, to information technologies and biotechnologiese.
Scientific projects have been combined into three major avenues:
- Non-linear nano-imaging and therapeutic targets: observing, understanding and curing with latest-generation tools based on nanoscale imaging and gene therapy.
- Photonics and Biotechnologies: Heading towards "Biolab on a chip" by integrating photonics, electronics and microfluidics.
- Polymer track for information technologies: from molecular engineering to the communication systems.
ENS Cachan Laboratories involved in this Institute :
- Laboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire (LPQM): Quantum and Molecular Photonics Laboratory (Head: Prof. Joseph ZYSS)
- Laboratoire de photophysique et photochimie supramoléculaires et macromoléculaires (PPSM) : Supra- and Macromolecular Photophysics and Photochemistry Laboratory (Head: Prof. Jacques DELAIRE)
- Laboratoire de biotechnologies et pharmacologie génétique appliquées (LBPA): Biotechnology and Applied Genetic Pharmacology Laboratory (Head: Prof. Christian AUCLAIR)
- Systèmes et applications du traitement de l’information et de l’énergie (SATIE): Systems and Applications of Information Technologies and Energy Laboratory (Head: Prof. Sylvain ALLANO)
• Teaching : Master Degree “Molecular Photonics for bio- and nano-technologies”
- Fundamentals in Photonics
- Fundamentals in Biology
- Light-matter interactions in molecular media
- Confinement of light: waveguided optics, microcavities, photonic crystals
- Molecular Nanophotonics
- Molecules and Materials for Electronics, Photonics and Biophotonics
- Biophotonics: theoretical and practical aspects of fluorescence in Biology
- Biosensors
- Polymer-based device technology for optical telecommunications
- Microfluidics: fundamentals and applications
- Photonics and microwaves
- Conducting Polymers and OLED’s
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