The Laboratory of Physical-Matter Chemistry and Radiation (LCPMR) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7614) attached to Sorbonne University and the CNRS Institutes of Chemistry and Physics. The unit is located on the Pierre and Marie Curie campus, Place Jussieu in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and brings together teams of physico-chemists and physicists, experimentalists and theorists, specialized in the study of radiation-matter interactions.

Research activities
The scientific activities of the unit are at the heart of fundamental research for the study of matter and its interactions with radiation. The systems studied range from condensed matter (complex materials, interfaces), to atoms, molecules and aggregates, isolated or adsorbed on surfaces. They are also opening up to the fields of nanosciences and attosciences (study of the dynamics of systems at the time scale of the attosecond).

The unit has an important experimental component, jointly developing research, instrumentation and valorization activities. X, XUV and electronic spectroscopy are the common tools of these teams which, gathered at the LCPMR, constitute a recognized pole of innovation and expertise for these techniques. In this context, a very intense activity is developed around the use of synchrotron radiation, not only in Europe, with in the first place SOLEIL (Saint Aubin), BESSY (Berlin), ELETTRA (Trieste), Max (Lund) SLS (Villingen), ESRF (Grenoble), but also in the United States (ALS) and Japan (Photon Factory). In recent years, this activity has also turned to the use of the performance of XFEL light sources (Free electron laser in the X field), at LCSL (Stanford), FLASH (Hamburg), SACLA (Sayo), FERMO (Trieste), ...

The theoretical component of the laboratory brings together two teams in the modeling of solids and molecular systems excited in the inner layer, as well as in the description of the response to ultra-short times of atomic and molecular systems subjected to intense fields.

The LCPMR has 19 teacher-researchers, 11 CNRS researchers and 15 people in the technical and administrative services of the LCPMR. In addition, about twenty doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and trainees work there.