The Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS)

The Physics Laboratory of the École normale supérieure (LPENS) is a physics research laboratory on the ENS campus in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The École normale supérieure was founded in 1794. LPENS is a joint research unit of ENS, the CNRS, Sorbonne Université, and Université PSL.

Groups work in quantum optics and atomic physics, statistical physics, condensed matter, biophysics, and nonlinear physics. Doctoral candidates sit in these groups and use laser, cryogenic, and computation facilities tied to the ENS Department of Physics.

ENS enrolls about 2,000 students. LPENS itself is about 100 to 200 researchers, including PhD students and permanent scientists, many of them international. Physicists associated with ENS physics include Nobel laureates Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Serge Haroche, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

Graduate study is the French doctorat, entered through PSL and partner doctoral schools, with close supervision in a single group on the Left Bank around rue d'Ulm and rue Lhomond.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, The Physics Laboratory of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPENS) lists 1 doctoral program, in physics.