Les Houches School of PhysicsSince 1951

2025 Prize Cécile DeWitt-Morette/Ecole de Physique des Houches/CFM Fondation pour la recherche
Awarded to Sylvain GIGAN* on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, under the dome of the Institut de France

"For his remarkable work on controlling the propagation of light in complex environments. The method he proposed and demonstrated for measuring the transmission matrix has become widely used, opening up important and sometimes unexpected applications in imaging, mesoscopic physics, information processing and neural network computing."

* Professor at Sorbonne University, Deputy Director of the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory (LKB – ENS-PSL/Sorbonne University/Collège de France/CNRS)