Physicist Pierre-Yves Guillon, Founder of the XLIM Research Institute, and former student of the University of Limoges before becoming a Doctor of Science in 1978, was elevated to the rank of Knight of the Legion of Honor, this 14th of July.

On June 28, 2019, SIEMENS Healthineers France, the XLIM Research Institute UMR7252 and the Laboratory of Mathematics and Applications (LMA) UMR7348 inaugurated the I3M Joint Laboratory "Multi-core Multi-core Metabolic Imaging".

The success of his broad scientific presence in Singapore the CNRS has established CNRS@CREATE to drive new collaborations research and innovation between the CNRS and Singapore. Dominique Baillargeat was appointed Scientific Executive Director of CNRS@CREATE, subsidiary of the CNRS from abroad.

"When the material diffuses the light": This interdisciplinary work, in which 40 authors have participated, provides a panorama of knowledge on the diffusion of light at the macroscopic scale, on the surface or in volume. Researchers from the XLIM Institute contributed to this.

XLIM congratulates Pierre Blondy for his appointment to the IEEE Fellow Grade "For contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems".

The official launch ceremony of the EMIMEO Erasmus Mundus Master took place on Thursday 11 April 2019 at XLIM. This ceremony was an opportunity to meet the project partners and discuss the implementation of this first Erasmus Mundus Master, in coordination with the University of Limoges.

This year, the 6th edition of the PLUridisciplinary francophone conference on Materials, the Environment and Electronics (PLUMEE 2019) took place in Limoges on April 10, 11 and 12, 2019 at ENSIL-ENSCI, on the site ESTER Technopole.

We offer you a representation of Labex Σ-Lim's activities in pictures. The Labex Sigma-Lim is a Laboratory of Excellence carried by two Mixed Research Units of the University of Limoges and the CNRS, XLIM and IRCER, and supported by two poles of competitiveness, the ALPHA pole - Route des Lasers & Hyperfrequencies and the European Pole of Ceramics.

The XLIM and IRCER laboratories organized a demonstration day of the ZEISS Crossbeam 550 microscope on Thursday, April 04, 2019. This equipment was acquired by the two laboratories under the CPER and is part of the development of their joint activities carried out by the Labex Sigma-LIM.

The 5th edition of the Perovskites Halogenes Days (JPH2019) took place on the 27th, 28th and 29th of March 2019 in Limoges, in the historic downtown district, more precisely at Espace Simone Veil.