Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay

Unité mixte CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay

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 Events, news.

Highlights ! 

Unraveling Interstellar Chemistry with Low-Temperature Reaction Kinetics and Ion Spectroscopy

Divita GUPTA
Tuesday September 30, 11am

Photoionization and fragmentation of molecules in the gas phase : application to astrophysical-interest and radio-biological interest species

Madhusree Roy Chowdhury
Monday, September 29 11am

PhD defense of Ali Muhieddine

Investigation of the vibrational structure of deprotonated anions of the chlorophyll family in their first electronically excited states using gas-phase photoelectron spectroscopy
Friday, october 3 at 2 pm
ISMO Amphitheater

PhD defense of Franco L. Molina

Cryogenic Ion Spectroscopy of Biologically Relevant Ions: From Nucleobase Radical Cations to NO Photodonor Anions
Université de Córdoba

PhD defense of Riccardo Ossanna

Biocompatible multifunctional nanovectors based on new organic chromophores: synthesis, photophysical properties, applications
Thursday, September 25 at 2 pm
Dorothy Hodgkin Amphitheater -ENS Paris-Saclay

PhD defense of Wenbo Liu

Green synthesis of multifunctional silver nanoparticle composites endowed with antibacterial properties

ISMO Amphitheater

PhD defense of Alexandre Antezak

Thursday July 18 at 2 PM
ISMO amphitheater
Electronic structure of quantum materials: searching for signatures of correlations

PhD defense of Rosemonde Chahbazian

Investigation of the pure rotational spectra of complex organic radical molecules”
Tuesday July 15 at 2 pm
ISMO Amphitheater

When is photodissociation in resonance enhanced photodissociation spectroscopy an obstacle or a benefit ?

When is photodissociation in resonance enhanced photodissociation spectroscopy an obstacle or a benefit ?

Samuel Marlton
Université de Cologne

Ultrafast relaxation processes in photoexcited He nanodroplets

Ultrafast relaxation processes in photoexcited He nanodroplets

Marcel Mudrich
Institute of Physics, University of Kassel, Germany

PhD defense of Roch SOBCZYK

Microfluidic devices to detect bacteria / SEPSIS by nanoluminescence

Tuesday July 8, 14h
ISMO Amphitheater

PhD defense of Armel Jouan

Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) of metal-carbonyl complexes: from solution to cryogenic matrices

Thursday July 11
Amphithéâtre de l’ISMO

PhD Défense of Etienne Rouquet

Conformation and complexation effects on one- and two-photon Photoelectron Circular Dichroism (PECD)
Thursday, July 10
ISMO Amphitheater

On the non-equilibrium coupling of colloidal particles with a critical bath

On the non-equilibrium coupling of colloidal particles with a critical bath

Ignacio A. Martinez
ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique.
LCP Group, ELIS Department, Ghent University

Investigating ultrafast internal conversion using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

Investigating ultrafast internal conversion using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy

Alexie Boyer
IPCMS, Strasbourg

Mechanistic and Structural Characterization of Organometallic and Biochemical Systems using Advanced Mass Spectrometry

Mechanistic and Structural Characterization of Organometallic and Biochemical Systems using Advanced Mass Spectrometry

Lyna Bourehil
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich

PhD Defense of Xiao ZHANG

Growth of phosphorene by epitaxy on Au(110), Ni(111), Ni(110)

June 18th at 9 AM
ISMO Amphitheater

4th session of the Saclay Plateau Ultra-Fast Community Forum (FOCUS)

June 12, 2025 at the École Polytechnique

The goal of FOCUS is to federate the plateau de Saclay’s community (IP-Paris & Université Paris-Saclay) that work on scientific subjects dealing with (almost) ultrafast dynamics.

FOCUS is a local and convivial meeting opportunity, encouraging discussions and scientific encounters.

MOOC Nano 2025

9th session of the MOOC: ‘Understanding Nanosciences’ by the University of Paris-Saclay and the Labex NanoSaclay.
Courses start on April 28th.

Production and characterization of short gas pulses in supersonic expansions

Hansjürg Schmutz & Joseph Agner
ETH Zürich

Tuesday, April 29

Development of crystallization control technique for organic materials using femtosecond laser

Yuka TSURI
Div. of Materials Science, NAIST

Wednesday, March 12, 11 a.m.

Marie-Aline Martin’s Habilitation to Supervise Research

Spectroscopie moléculaire à haute résolution des micro-ondes à l’infrarouge: Applications en physique moléculaire et astrophysique

Friday, March 7, at 10:45 AM, in the ISMO Amphitheater.

Efficient first-principles exploration on the physical and chemical space of peptides and saccharides enabled by neural network potentials

Jer-Lai Kuo
Academi Sinica, M3 Lab, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan
Jeudi 16 janvier, 11h

Single molecules at the atomic scale: excitons and trions, circumstellar analogues and on-surface catalysis

Pablo Merino
Material Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)

Mardi 11 février, 11h

Unraveling astrochemical reaction mechanisms through sequential ion-molecule reactions

Heather Lewandowski
JILA Faculty, University of Colorado-Boulder

Lundi 3 février, 11h

Nonlinear processes in condensed matter driven by Terahertz fields

Ahmed Ghalgaoui
Department of Physics, Dortmund University

Mardi 4 février, 11h

Best Presentation Award to Hai Linh LE

On September 24, Hai Linh LE, a PhD student in the SYSTEMAE team, received this morning the Best Presentation Award at the ‘Photoemission in Diluted Medium 2025’ Workshop, organized by the Physical Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (SCF).

With JWST and ALMA, astronomers witness the birth of a new solar system

A study led by an international team, coordinated by Melissa McClure from the Leiden Observatory, and involving French researchers from the CNRS — Jennifer Noble from PIIM and Emmanuel Dartois from ISMO.

A newly identified intramolecular coupling mechanism

In the CH₃CO radical, a team from ISMO and PhLAM has revealed a previously unobserved coupling between the spin of an unpaired electron and the internal rotation of a methyl group (CH₃).

Proof of concept for the combination of Gemcitabine-loaded MOF and hadrontherapy to treat hypoxic cancers

In a study published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics, ISMO researchers have published the first study of an innovative strategy that combines porous organometallic nanoparticles (nanoMOFs) loaded with the anti-cancer drug Gemcitabine monophosphate (GemMP) and helium and carbon ion hadrontherapy.