Christophe Galland picks up good vibrations from photons

Christophe Galland, head of EPFL's Laboratory of Quantum and Nano-Optics © Alain Herzog / 2020 EPFL | Special thanks to Pierre Wets and his team for the staging. Summer Series: Science as a vocation. Christophe Galland, the head of EPFL's Laboratory of Quantum and Nano-Optics, believes that teaching and research are inextricably linked. Let's find out more about this physicist who's eager to share his passion. "When I was little, I clearly remember reading an article on carbon nanotubes in a kids' science magazine. And that's what I ended up doing my thesis on!" Christophe Galland, who's now specialized in optical spectroscopy and quantum optics, can't pinpoint exactly when science became part of his life, although he's always been a bit of a math geek. "I think my teachers really had a decisive influence later on," says Galland.