The LPS 2025 Highlights booklet is now online. It presents the main scientific achievements, distinctions, and key moments that shaped the life of the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides throughout the year.
📌 2025 was a particularly significant year for the LPS, reflecting the strength, diversity, and creativity of its research. From fundamental advances in condensed-matter physics to results at the interfaces with nanosciences, soft matter, and physics–biology, the laboratory continued to play a visible role at national and international levels.
📌 This booklet gathers a selection of major scientific highlights, chosen by the researchers among nearly 200 publications, as well as an overview of the awards received by LPS members and the 14 PhD theses successfully defended at the LPS in 2025.
🏆 Awards and distinctions in 2025
- Mathieu Kociak was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the FreeQCC project, exploring quantum-coherent coupling between free electrons and photons.
- François Boulogne received the Ivan Peychès Prize from the French Academy of Sciences for his work on soft matter and foams.
- Victor Balédent was appointed Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) for his research on imaging orbitals in correlated materials.
🕊️ Tribute
The year was also marked by the passing of Mark-Olivier Goerbig, a leading figure of the LPS Theory group and an internationally recognized physicist. The booklet pays tribute to his exceptional scientific contributions, his dedication to teaching, and his profound impact on the laboratory and its community.
👏 These highlights are inseparable from the collective commitment of all members of the laboratory — researchers, PhD candidates, engineers, technicians, and administrative staff — whose daily work is the cornerstone of the LPS.
📘 Director of publication : Pascale Foury-Leylekian
✍️ Editor : Veronika Kysil
🖋️ Staff editor : Khayam Amir Bakhtiar