Joseph Zyss

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Joseph Zyss
Born1950
NationalityFrench
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (E.N.S., 1965)
Known for Molecular photonics
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Physicist
Institutions Institut d'Optique
École Polytechnique
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Doctoral students Sophie Brasselet
Website www.ens-cachan.fr/lecole/distinctions/joseph-zyss

Joseph Zyss (born in 1950) is a French physicist who specialises in molecular photonics and nonlinear optics. He is the author or co-author of more than 600 articles in the field. [2]

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Career

From 1975 to 1997, Zyss worked at the CNET's Bagneux Laboratory. Subsequently he has worked in the Laboratoire de photonique quantique et moléculaire (UMR 8537), and is its former director (1998–2006). In 2002, he was the founder of the Jean-Le-Rond-d'Alembert Institute  [ fr ] (IFR 121), and served as its director until 2015. He also founded the European Associated Laboratory (LEA NaBi), a collaboration between CNRS and the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of nanobiotechnologies. As of 2018, he is an Emeritus professor at the École normale supérieure de Cachan. [3]

Research

His research has focused on molecular photonics. He specialises in molecular-level nonlinear optical effects. [4] These researches have linked basic physical chemistry with technologies and applications including polymers for information technology and biophotonics imaging. [5]

Awards and honours

Zyss is an elected fellow of The Optical Society, [6] and has been awarded the Société Française de Physique's IBM prize and Yves-Rocard Award  [ fr ], as well as the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (2010). [7]

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References

  1. "Joseph Zyss" (PDF). prixjeanjerphagnon.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. "Joseph Zyss". researchgate.net.
  3. "Joseph Zyss - ENS-PARIS-SACLAY". www.ens-cachan.fr. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  4. Zyss, Joseph (1994), Molecular Nonlinear Optics : Materials, Physics and Devices, Academic Press, ISBN   0-521-63303-6
  5. Kuhn, Hans Jochen (1991), Nonlinear Optical Materials =CRC Press, CRC Press, ISBN   9780849301476
  6. Joseph Zyss Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Prix de la SFP". sfp.in2p3.fr.