Liquids and Interfaces
This large team (>20 permanent faculty members, researchers or ingeneers +20 PhD students or postdocs) gathers around soft matter, and the properties of liquids and complex systems where interfaces are involved. Our research covers the dynamics of these materials over a wide range of scales, from nanometric to macroscopic, as well as the coupling mechanisms between those various levels (micro to macro approach). Our approach couple experiments and theory, and we developp both novel instruments and model systems. Typical experiments in the team involve coupling optical measurments (confocal microscopy, high-speed camera, spectroscopy, micro-PIV, FCS, particle tracking, etc.) to stimuli (drop impact, flow, pressure, humidity, voltage, temperature gradient, fracture opening, etc.). See more about our research.
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September 2026 : On the possibility of sand piles
Publication in Physical Review Letters by Jesus Fernandez, LoÏc Vanel and Antoine Bérut, selected as Editors’ suggestion. See more. |
September 2026 : PhD of Killian Duplat
Congratulation to Killian Duplat who defended his PhD thesis entitled "From criticality to earthquake-like dynamics: towards understanding scale-invariant behavior beyond the τ = 3/2 limit". |
July 2026 : PhD of Jesus Daniel Fernandez
Publication in Physical Review Letters by Jesus Fernandez, LoÏc Vanel and Antoine Bérut, selected as Editors’ suggestion. See more. |
June 2026 : HDR of Antoine Bérut
Congratulation to Antoine Bérut who defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" entitled "Fluage thermiquement activé : des écoulements de suspensions colloïdales denses aux matériaux hétérogènes en traction". |
February 2026 : PhD of Sacha Bouvier
Congratulation to Sacha Bouvier who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Etudes expérimentales des interactions entre fibres de verre micrométriques»". |
December 2025 : PhD of Valentin Poncet
Congratulation to Valentin Poncet who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Étude du comportement magnéto-aérotactique de bactéries aérotactiques»". |
October 2025 : PhD of Leïla Issoufou Alfari
Congratulation to Leïla Issoufou Alfari who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Imagerie des contraintes à l'échelle microscopique dans les polymères à l'aide de nanocristaux fluorescents»". |
October 2025 : PhD of Bastien Isabella
Congratulation to Bastien Isabella who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Freezing of gas bubbles in a liquid»". |
October 2025 : HDR of Bruno Issenmann
Congratulation to Bruno Issenmann who defended his "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches" entitled "Dynamics of water and solutions under low temperatures, from the stable to the deeply supercooled liquid»". |
July 2025: PhD of Guillaume Duprez
Congratulation to Guillaume who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Microrheolgy of dense active systems : from colloids to cells". |
June 2025: CNRS Silver medal for Cécile Cottin-Bizonne
Congratulation to Cécile who was awarded the CNRS silver medal, in particular for her work on the collective behaviour of active matter in our team. Click here for a portrait. |
May 2025: Universal law for the dispersal of motile microorganisms in porous media
Publication in Physical Review Letters by Tommaso Pietrangeli |
May 2025: HDR of Oriane Bohomme
Congratulation to Oriane who defended her "Habilitation à Diriger des Rercherches" entitled "Probing liquid properties in bulk and at interfaces : opical and electrokinetical approaches". |
February 2025: Collective oscillations in human crowds
Publication in Nature by Nicolas Bain and colleagues in Lyon and Pamplona who have modeled crowd motion during the feria in Pamplona. See more. |
February 2025: PhD of Maxime Fery
Congratulation to Maxime who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Probing liquid structures by non linear optics: from concentrated electrolytes to confined liquids". |
December 2024: PhD of Changwoo Bae
Congratulation to Changwoo who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Nanofluidics with Soap Bubbles and Surfactants". |
December 2024: PhD of Tommaso Pietrangeli
Congratulation to Tommaso who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Bacterial Motion in Confinement: Optimal Strategies, Universal Dispersal and Magnetotactic Bacteria". |
December 2024: PhD of Manon Bourgade
Congratulation to Manon who defended her PhD thesis entitled "Penetration of hydrophilic yield stress fluids in hydrophobic fibrous media". |
October 2024: PhD of Frédérick Caetano
Congratulation to Frédérick who defended his PhD thesis entitled "Slippage of yield stress fluid: lubrication film". |
October 2024: PhD of Camille Perret
Congratulation to Camille who defended her PhD thesis entitled "Marangoni swimmer in external flows". |
February 2024: How to steer active colloids up a vertical wall?
Publication in Nature Communications by Adérito Fins-Carreira |