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November 8, 2023

"Tuomo Kauranne, President of Arbonaut was at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne to participate in the last session of the 2023 PSRS industrial days in Saint-Etienne. The PSRS students learnt how photonics and programming create knowledge and understanding to help inventorying forests, assessing ecological risks, and managing forest operations."

Warmest thanks to Tuomo for his nice presentation and the interesting discussions!

November 7, 2023

 "The Master 2 PSRS students at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne have enjoyed the lecture given by Guillaume Basset about optical and photonic applications of micro and nano-structured surfaces. Guillaume Basset is the leader of the Micro nano optics group at CSEM, an internationally recognized Swiss technology innovation center. We are grateful to him to give the students a glimpse of the latest innovations in this growing field of photonics."

Thank you Guillaume for your presentation!

October 23, 2023

The third session of the PSRS industrial days in Saint-Etienne highlighted  Clara Spetebroodt, founder of the startup Plas'tri and a graduate of Institut d'Optique Graduate School in 2019, who demonstrated how photonics and AI could be used to design easy-to-use and reliable tools for sorting plastics.

 Mohammad Moazam, a graduate of the EMJMD PSRS in 2022 working at Stellantis, showcased how AI combined with photonic and acoustic sensors could assist in driving and make cars safer. A step toward the autonomous cars that could open the way to more car sharing.

They also shared their experience with the students, as young entrepreneur working for a cleaner world, or professional in industry. Our warm thanks to them for their inspiring talks.



October 11, 2023

"The PSRS program was pivotal for me to reach this point."

Congratulations to Francisco Matos Alvarez, PSRS alumni from the 2021-2023 cohort, for starting his PhD at the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay! All the PSRS team wishes him the best.

Find Francisco's original post on LinkedIn.

October 11, 2023

"Great interactions today at the second session of the 2023 PSRS industrial days. Very interesting presentations from Applied Materials, HID and LASEA SA, visit of the joint laboratory between HID and Laboratoire Hubert Curien at Université Jean Monnet, and round table about the PhD and its importance when working in industry. Our students enjoyed the different points of view, the various experiences and the numerous advices of our speakers Nipun Sharma, Gauthier Briere, David Bruneel, Mathieu Fortin and Manuel Flores. Our speakers greeted the interest and maturity of the PSRS students. Thanks to all!"

September 29th 2023

 PSRS Research Day ! The PSRS master students visited the Laboratoire Hubert Curien. It was the opportunity to have a glimpse of the research activities of the 240 people working there. 

September 29th  2023

Yesterday, the PSRS M1 students have elected their Cohort representative Deborah Adigun, and the next PSRS programme representative at the Erasmus Mundus Association , Christeena Paul Kallukkaran.

September 26, 2023

"Celebrating a wonderful morning for the PSRS students today with pedagogical presentations and valuable advices given by our two alumni Duc H. Le and Mohd Saquib Khan. They presented their respective company VTT and OQmented and their journey from their entrance in the PSRS EMJMD. My most sincere thanks to them for their availability and unwavering commitment to the programme.
1st session of the PSRS Industrials Days!"

26th June 2023

"The program has equipped me with invaluable knowledge and opened doors to exciting opportunities". Look at the master thesis tesmonial of Iye Szin ANG


4th June 2023

PSRS is proud of it's students. Congratulations to Lakshminarayan Sharma, a second year PSRS student, for his presentation at the Optics and Photonics Day Finland in Joensuu. He exposed his Master thesis work on excitonic properties of atomically thin WSe2 and MoS2 that he’s been conducting at Tampere University under the supervision of Carlos Rodríguez Fernández and Humeyra Caglayan.

12th December 2022

PSRS cleanroom activities: Second year PSRS Master students at Politecnico di Torino recently had a cleanroom experience with Trustech, one of our industrial partners. PSRS students can also experience working in a cleanroom environment at other times during their cursus, including the during the third semester in Saint-Etienne.

M2 PSRS students at Poltecnico di Torino in Trustech cleanroom

21th November 2022

PSRS Industrial Day in Saint-Etienne: Another fascinating day with groundbreaking industrial leaders in the photonics industry. Many thanks to Drs. E. Baubeau from Keranova and N. Sharma from HID Global CID for their captivating presentations, and special thanks to PSRS alumnus M.S. Khan, R&D Engineer at OQmented, for his presentation on MEMS and for also sharing valuable advice on looking for internships, landing a job, and employer expectations!

1st September 2022

Welcome to our new 18 PSRS students ! Enjoy your induction week 2022 !

11st March 2022

PSRS QAB :

The QAB meeting was in Torino and hybrid. This allowed several people with different roles in PSRS to meet each other. The QAB was able to bring together, among other persons, the teaching and administrative coordinators, certain industrial partners, the delegates of each cohort to represent students... Thank you to all those who participated. The QAB allowed to talk about the Master and what the students think of it to improve it constantly, key dates which will punctuate the PSRS agenda and certain modalities.

10 March 2022

PSRS AMB :

Partners gathered for the PSRS AMB. A time of exchange allowing to select the future students and to discuss the master in general. Thanks to Polito for the welcome. The meeting was very instructive and PSRS is glad to attract more and more students over the years interested in the programme.


03 March 2022

PSRS Internships

PSRS students began their internship in various companies or laboratories, for a 6 months length. A professional semester that will provide them an enriching experience and practical knowledge, in addition to their courses. Duc shared us some photos and his feedback of his internship from his company. You can consult it on "For students" ; "Internship" page. Thank you Duc !



26 November 2021

PSRS Research Half-Days 2021

We are organising the PSRS Research Half days on December 6th and 13th. Join us to discover the latest innovation in Reseach in four different research centers: the Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca Metrologica in Torino, Laboratoire Hubert Curien in Saint Etienne, University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu and the Laboratoire Images, Signaux et Systèmes Intelligents in Paris.

Presentations will be accessible to all via Zoom and Cisco Webex.

More information at master.PSRS@univ-st-etienne.fr


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24 November 2021

First practical session in the NanoSaint-Etienne platform at UJM

The master 2 PSRS students present at UJM inaugurated the first practical session carried out on the NanoSaint-Etienne platform yesterday. They worked in a clean room under an inactinic light to clean a sample, deposit a thin layer of photosensitive resist by spin coating, use an interferometric setup to illuminate the sample, develop the resist and get a surface grating, which they characterized with an atomic force microscope.


17 November 2021

Benjamin Gallinet, invited lecturer at UJM

We were delighted to welcome and interact with Dr. Benjamin Gallinet this week. Benjamin got a PhD at EPFL and has now more than 10 years of experience at CSEM in Switzerland, where he is presently R&D manager. He has given a 4h lecture at UJM about applications in nanophotonics and plasmonics. The Master 2 students have enjoyed his wide experience from theoretical approaches to products and have discovered many very recent industrial applications in these fields.


03 November 2021

PSRS Industrial Half-Days 2021

Join us on November 15th and 22nd for a workshop with our industrial partners to hear about the latest innovations in R&D. Presentations will be accessible to all via Microsoft Teams and Webex.

More information at master.PSRS@univ-st-etienne.fr


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28 October 2021

Virtual Open Day

Join us on November 23th to learn more about the programme, courses and all the benefits of studying in one of the leading European masters in Photonics, Artificial Intelligence and Nanotechnologies. Presentations by the four universities: UJM (France), UEF (Finland), UPEC (France), POLITO (Italy)

Register at master.PSRS@univ-st-etienne.fr to participate

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17 October 2021

Conference Metallic Nano-Objects

The PSRS master 2 students will attend the international conference Metallic Nano-Objects organized in Saint-Etienne from 17 to 19 November 2021. This conference is related to the courses "Micro-nano-photonics" and "nanoplasmonics" delivered at UJM in semester 3. The programme is available here, and the conference website is: https://mno-2020.sciencesconf.org/


17 October 2021

Applications of Photonics - lecture series

UEF's popular Photonics Master of Science -program's course Applications of Photonics will be held this year as a series of hybrid lectures hosted by Professor Jyrki Saarinen in UEF's Joensuu campus and online in Microsoft Teams. The course is organized in collaboration with PREIN flagship and Photonics Finland.

 

Applications of Photonics -lectures focus on practical applications of photonics from an industrial point of view. Key professionals from various companies give presentations regarding their businesses, technologies & applications in 30-minute lectures, and participants can discuss the themes further in the following 15-minute Q&A sessions. A total of 22 companies are invited, each from a distinct sub field of photonics. The lectures are also included in the Month of Photonics, PSRS Industrial Days and IMLEX Days.



28 August 2021

The induction week for the second cohort is coming, have a look at the programme following the link on the image


14 May 2021

Two PSRS master 1 students will give a pitch about their optional internship at the 6th edition of the SLEIGHT Science Event - SSE#6 

Congratulations to Duc Huynh LE and SUMIT


25 April 2021

20 students commit to join the second cohort starting on August 30th, 2021. Discover below where our future students come from


GRADUATE INTERDISCIPLINARY SESSION #5 of the MANUTECH SLEIGHT GRADUATE SCHOOL

On January 11-12, 2021, the PSRS students attend the Graduate Interdisciplinary Session devoted to Graduate School-wide interactions. It offers courses of potential interest to all its members: scientists, engineers, and students active in its various domains, both in research laboratories and in academic courses. Master students are most welcome to use the opportunity and merge for a few days with the research community.
The
programme includes scientific lectures and conferences by international class experts, who have accepted to address the wide and diverse audience. In addition, doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows are invited to give short presentations on some recent research result, and master students are offered a time to "pitch" on their academic projects in the MANUTECH SLEIGHT area. Each of the three scientific axes of the MANUTECH SLEIGHT Graduate School organize a half-day workshop devoted to research projects in progress and prospective discussions.

28 August 2021

The induction week for the second cohort is coming, have a look at the programme following the link on the image


ONLINE OPEN DAY

JOIN US AND GET A SCHOLARSHIP

(scholarships available to all students from European countries and non-European countries, including UK)

https://www.master-photonics4security.eu/

Application deadline on February 6th, 2021


Online open day organized on

January 11th, 2021

 Programme and links towards the online sessions here


The PSRS team wishes you a happy new year with good health, peace and success


PHOTONICS, A SOURCE OF INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY

9 industrial associate partners of the EMJMD PSRS present

solutions where photonics plays a major role in industrial innovation

Online workshop on November 23, 2020

Register for free at master.PSRS@univ-st-etienne.fr to receive the link toward the online workshop

Programme

PSRS Research Day at Hubert Curien Laboratory

The PSRS students discovered the research groups of Hubert Curien Laboratory in Saint-Etienne during an online workshop around photonics, lasers, micro-nano-technologies, image and video processing, color science and data intelligence

Programme

Testimony: Huynh Duc LE, student of the first cohort 2020-2022

First of all, I would like to thank the coordinators for giving me such a great opportunity to be a part of the PSRS program. Speaking for myself, my full name is Huynh Duc LE, and from Vietnam. I attained a bachelor of engineering in Engineering Physics at an engineering Vietnamese university and then worked as an optical engineer within a year. This year, I desire to pursue a master's degree in photonics in order to deepen into the science and technology of light which has changed the world faster, smarter, safer, and more sustainably in the 21st century. I chose the PSRS master program because of its broad spectrum of optics and photonics from basic science and theory to specialization phases. The coursework gives students various directions in which they are able to seek a job in either industry or academia. Furthermore, the PSRS consortium includes good European universities, associated industrial and academic partners having high-quality education, distinguished professors, research facilities, and internship opportunities. I strongly believe that I will broaden and apply my knowledge of photonics as well as soft skills such as interpersonal skills, multidisciplinary and multicultural teamwork after the 2-year PSRS program in different European countries. I am really looking forward to starting my PSRS journey.

Testimony: Nathalia Della Giustina Ballmann, student of the first cohort 2020-2022

My name is Nathalia, I come from a small town in southern Brazil and I will be part of the first PSRS cohort starting this September.

I have a bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and I also studied for one year at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse as part of an exchange program. My main focus during my undergraduate studies were Analog Integrated Circuits. I worked for two years on the research of integrated DC-DC converters and wrote my final studies project on the subject.

By the end of my degree, I started my job in embedded systems development at CERTI Foundation. For the most part of this 3-year period, I was working on FPGA design for avionics, but I also spent a few months developing embedded software.

I decided to pursue further education abroad and my research has led me to the PSRS program. Photonics is something that had me interested in my previous studies but that I did not explore it in more depth. This is a trending topic that has multiple applications yet to be discovered. Given my background in electronics and my interest in semiconductor engineering, I chose the specialization in Micro-nano-technological Devices. Additionally, I found it very interesting that the curriculum has various courses on programming. My professional experience has shown me that these are valuable skills.

I am looking forward to studying and getting to know more of France, Finland and Italy. I hope we can get the most out of this great opportunity.


Origin of students of the first cohort

Starting date: September 28, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the delay in the visa issuance, the starting date has been postponed from August 31 to September 28.

PSRS Small Private Online Course


The teaching team of the PSRS Erasmus Mundus joint Master Degree will provide online courses to all students who may face problems related to the COVID-19 crisis to arrive in time in Saint-Etienne. These online courses will allow all students to have the same chance of success for their semester 1.

Warm welcome to the first PSRS cohort


Congratulations to the 17 students (6 women and 11 men) selected from Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Syria, Vietnam who commit to join the Photonics for Security, reliability and safety EMJMD program. 

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