Dr Léa Vilcocq joins Ircelyon!
We are delighted to welcome Léa Vilcocq, a CNRS Research Scientist, who joined our team on October 1, 2025.Having joined the CNRS in 2016, Léa previously contributed to the work of the LGPC and then...
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Pro Bike certification
In 2025, Ircelyon committed to obtaining ‘Pro Vélo’ certification. This included participating in ‘Mai à Vélo’ (May by Bike) and maintenance workshops in June and September. What is the Pro-Vélo label? The Pro-Vélo Employer label...
2 new recruits at the institute in 2025!
This year, we welcomed two new researchers: – Dr Ibrahim khalil, new CNRS recruit who joined in February and works within the CATREN team on the development of bifunctional catalysts for the bio-based and selective...
2025 Institute Day
The Ircelyon Science Day took place on 1 July 2025. It was an opportunity to get together for oral presentations, coffee breaks and an outdoor buffet in the sunshine. For this event, 2 speakers have...
A student influencer at Ircelyon
Ircelyon has welcomed to its CARE team, Clara Inés Alcolado Olivares, a PhD student known in Spain for sharing science videos on social networks. Sharing science with society is one of our missions, and meeting...
Tribute to François Figueras
He arrived in France at the age of two with his parents, who were persecuted by the Franco regime. He lived in the Ain region before moving to Lyon in 1953. After studying at the...
Women in science
In the wake of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, the tenth International Day of Women and Girls in Science took place on 11 February.On these occasions, the CNRS and its laboratories have launched...
Tribute to Jean Massardier
Our former colleague Jean Massardier passed away on 20 July 2024 at the age of 88. Jean Massardier was born on 11 December 1936 in the Loire. After studying preparatory classes at the Lycée Claude...
Tribute to Pr Akim Kaddouri
Our colleague Akim (Abdel Hakim) Kaddouri sadly passed away on September 16, 2024 at the age of 65 after a short illness. Akim Kaddouri was full professor at the University Claude Bernard of Lyon since...
Tribute to Jean-Marc Millet
It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of our colleague Jean-Marc Millet on 22 August in his 67th year.Jean Marc joined the laboratory in 1987 and retired last October. He was...
ICC 2024: time to take stock
It was a great success for this 18th ICC (International Congress on Catalysis) in which our laboratory was heavily involved, whether as part of the organising team, with its many volunteers, for the ‘Roots and...
Come and join us! Position open to CNRS
The CNRS external competition recruitment campaign has started. A position of assistant engineer in BAP B Materials Sciences is open in our laboratory in the IRCATECH characterisation platform. This position will strengthen our DRX and...
Ircelyon Scientific Day
The laboratory’s scientific day was held on Thursday 6 June 2024 in the amphitheatre at the University of Lyon.We would like to extend our warmest thanks to our guest speakers Damien LAAGE (CNRS Research Director...
Pauline Bredy, in her grandfather’s footsteps
Once upon a time, there was the story of Pauline Bredy and her grandfather Gérard Bredy, both doctoral students at the laboratory, 57 years apart!Pauline tells us about this wonderful adventure in an interview: Your...
Jean-Marc Millet in the spotlight
A special issue of Applied Catalysis A is dedicated to our colleague Jean-Marc Millet Jean-Marc joined the Institute in 1987 and has devoted over 35 years to the field of materials science and catalysis. He...
Adrien Gandolfo, new recruit
Adrien Gandolfo join the CARE team of our laboratory as “maître de conférence” in environmental chemistry, specialising in multiphase chemistry and the study of soil-ground-atmosphere interactions.Adrien combines laboratory experiments and field measurements to carry out...
Recruitment for the DRX service of our Ircatech platform!
The laboratory is recruiting a Technician (M/F) in material characterization by X-ray Diffraction, within our characterization Ircatech characterization platform. Join our team of engineers and technicians, made up of 7 scientific departments, which offers laboratory...
Visit of Antoine Petit, Chairman and CEO of the CNRS
We had the pleasure of welcoming Antoine Petit (Chairman and CEO of the CNRS) on Friday January 6, 2023, accompanied by Christophe Coudroy (DGDR), Jean-Luc Moullet (DGDI), Alain Schuhl (DGDS), Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël (DAPP), Bruno Figadère...
CNRS internal mobility position to be filled
As part of the CNRS internal mobility campaign (NOEMI), the IRCELYON laboratory and the “Centre de Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire à Très Hauts Champs” (CRMN) are recruiting a logistics technician. The technician will carry out his...
Nuno Rocha Batalha, new CNRS recruit
Nuno Rocha Batalha join the “Ingénierie, du matériau au réacteur” (ING) team of our laboratory as “Chargé de Recherche”. Nuno had previously completed a post-doctorate at Ircelyon in the “Catalyse Hétérogène pour la Transition Énergétique”...
A new life for our machine tools
Do you know reuse?In this spirit of non-waste and respect for the environment, our mechanical workshop donated its old machine tools to make way for its machining center and CNC lathe. These machine tools therefore...
CNRS internal mobility position to be filled
As part of the CNRS internal mobility campaign (FSEP), the IRCELYON laboratory is recruiting a technician in mechanical production. We are looking for a motivated person to get involved in the instrumentation department, in support...
IRCELYON : 60 years
In 2019, IRCELYON celebrates its 60 years of existence and research in catalysis. For the occasion, a scientific day was organized on July 4, 2019 in Lyon:IRCELYON 2019 – Past, Present and Future. innovative Catalysis...
