Jerome Wenger Infos

   Jérôme Wenger, PhD
   Institut Fresnel CNRS UMR7249
   Faculté des Sciences de St Jérome
   Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen
   13397 Marseille Cedex - France
   Phone: + 33 4 91 28 84 94

   jerome.wenger@fresnel.fr

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Short bio

Jerome Wenger graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique in 2001. After a PhD in quantum optics under the supervision of Philippe Grangier at Institut d’Optique, he joined the CNRS and Institut Fresnel at Marseille in 2005, where he obtained the habilitation (HDR) in 2012. He was promoted to CNRS research director in 2020.

His research is at the interface between nanophotonics and biophotonics, with a focus on pushing the limits of single molecule fluorescence detection beyond what is possible on a conventional diffraction-limited optical microscope. Jerome Wenger has authored over 120 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is co-inventor of 6 patents. His scientific work has been recognized by 8 scientific prizes and more than 50 invited conference talks.

Jerome Wenger was the principal investigator and coordinator for more than 7 grants (ANR, ERC Starting, ERC Consolidator, ERC Proof of Concept) and was the lead supervisor for the Institut Fresnel partner for 6 other grants (ANR, EU). He has directly supervised 10 PhD theses and 14 postdoctoral fellows.

Jerome Wenger is coordinator of the research axis “Nanophotonics and Optical Components” of the Institut Fresnel gathering 32 permanent researchers and 7 teams. He has taken part to the committee of more than 13 international conferences, and chaired the scientific committee of the session “Plasmonics and Metamaterials” at CLEO Europe EQEC in 2015 and 2017. He has served as a panel member for the ERC Consolidator Grant selection committee PE4 and for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche on nanosciences, and has been performing scientific expertises for several national and international funding agencies (ANR, ERC, DFG, NWO, ISF, MOST…)

Condensed Curriculum Vitae

• 2020 CNRS research director
• 2012 Habilitation à diriger des recherches - Aix Marseille University
• 2009 CNRS 1st class researcher
• 2005 CNRS 2nd class researcher
• 2004 PhD - Université Paris Sud
• 2001 Engineer Institut d'Optique Graduate School

Prizes and awards

1. Optica Fellow 2025
2. Instrumentation Prize from the Chemical Physics / Physical Chemistry division of the French Chemical and Physical Societies, 2017
3. Nominee at Jean Jerphagnon Prize, 2016
4. Fabry de Gramont Prize, French Optical Society, 2015
5. Edouard Branly Prize, Federation of French Scientific Societies, 2011
6. Young Researcher Award of Marseille city, 2005
7. Daniel Guinier Young Researcher Special Mention, French Physical Society, 2004
8. La Recherche Magazine Prize, 2004

PhD students prizes and awards

• Prithu Roy: Aix-Marseille University thesis prize, ED352 thesis Prize, SPIE Photonic, Nano Letters Seed Grant
• Aleksandr Barulin: C'Nano PACA thesis prize, ED352 thesis Prize
• Raju Regmi: Aix-Marseille University thesis prize, ED352 thesis Prize
• Heykel Aouani: Aix-Marseille University thesis prize, ED352 thesis Prize

Armoiries

De gueules à une rose d’argent sur un mont à trois coupeaux de sinople à deux fasces d’argent.

Cimier : un buste de femme au naturel, vêtue, chevelée et couronnée d'or, les bras remplacés par un vol de gueules d’une demi-rose d’argent.

Copyright Jerome Wenger, Vitrolles, September 2024

Ancestors : Conrad Wenger von Blumenstein; Gottfried von Fleckenstein; Raban von Helmstatt