Well, parks and random close-ups of food are all well and fine, but I am here to carry out research, after all:

CPE Lyon

CPE Lyon

Here is the fine and venerable institution I now belong to, for better or worse. They like to boast that they’re a school with 3 Nobel Prizes: Victor Grignard (1912, Chemistry); Yves Chauvin (2005, Chemistry); Jean Dercourt (2007, Peace).

Doors leading to nowhere

Doors leading to nowhere

An exterior shot of the labs. I spend most of my time in the middle lab on the top floor. (You can tell by the orange propane tanks we keep outside for glassblowing.)