The prestigious “Médaille d’argent du CNRS” (i.e. CNRS Silver Medal) in physics this year has been appointent to Prof. Pascale Senellart-Mardon for “her contributions in the development of photonic devices for the processing of quantum information… These devices, consisting in solid-state semiconductors quantom dot deterministically coupled to a micropillar optical cavity, represent up to now the brightest emitters of single and indistinguishable photons or entangled photon pais.”