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Eric Collet CNRS silver medal 2020
Teacher-researcher at the Rennes Institute of Physics, he specialises in the study of the ultra-fast transformation of materials and molecules by light. This expertise, which is almost unique in the world, earned him the CNRS silver medal in 2020.
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He is also director of the international France-Japan laboratory IM-LED (Impacting Materials with Light and Electric Fields and Watching Real Time Dynamics).
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