The CNRS has just announced the awarding of its 2026 Gold Medal to Jacqueline Bloch, CNRS research director at C2N.

Jacqueline Bloch is an internationally recognized specialist in light-matter interaction. With her team, she explores the physics of polaritons, quantum fluids of light manipulated in semiconductor microcavities, to probe phenomena as varied as superfluidity, topology, and non-equilibrium phase transitions. Having joined the CNRS in 1994, she received the Jean Ricard Prize from the French Physical Society (2015), the CNRS Silver Medal (2017), and the Ampère Prize from the Académie des …

Joo-Von Kim, CNRS Research Director at C2N, Named 2027–2028 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society

Joo-Von Kim, CNRS Research Director at C2N, has been named a 2027–2028 Distinguished Lecturer by a committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society. A theoretical and computational physicist, Joo-Von Kim specializes in nanomagnetism and spintronics. At C2N, his work focuses on the nonlinear and stochastic dynamics of magnetization, with applications in information processing and unconventional computing. His lecture is titled “Floquet Magnonics: A Time Odyssey.” Magnonics deals with the generation, propagation, …