The mission of the Physics Department of the ENS Lyon is the implementation of the Matter Sciences training including the year L3 (BSc third year), the two years of Master (M1 and M2), and the preparation to the physics option of the competitive examination for the agrégation of Physics.
The department relies on a teaching team composed of teacher-researchers and researchers from various backgrounds: CNRS, Physics Laboratory of the ENS of Lyon, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, and laboratories associated with the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1.