Short CV

Short biography:

My three years at ESPCI Paris (Master 2 level) gave me a strong interdisciplinary experimental background in physics, chemistry and biology. I chose to complete my education by doing a second Master at the university Pierre et Marie Curie of Sorbonne université: the Master ICFP with an advanced theoretical background in soft matter, hydrodynamic and biophysics. I had three experimental internships during my Masters in the field of soft matter, and each of them has a strong link with image acquisition and analysis (in particular tomography and confocal microscopy).

I did my PhD at the Gulliver laboratory on "swimming water droplets in microfluidic". We answered fundamental questions such as the effect of confinement on a swimmer, which gave insight on the behaviour of swimming microorganisms. I acquired several skills in microfluidics technology, active matter and flow visualization (Particle Image Velocimetry). These three years enforced my will to continue in academia, in the fields of microfluidics/soft matter.

I did a first a Post-doc in Japan, in the MBNU unit at OIST, where I designed slender microstructures in microfluidic channels as a model system to study beds of cilia. I observe the formation of metachronal waves that emerge from the interaction of the canopy and the elasticity of the flow.

I did a second Post-Doc with the Physique department of ENS Lyon and the Polymer Materials Engineering laboratory of Lyon 1 University, on the translocation of synthetic polymer molecules through nanopores.

My third Post-Doc, was between ENS Paris and ESPCI Paris, on diffusio-osmotic mixing for blue energy optimization.

I am now a CNRS researcher in the FAST Laboratory of Paris-Saclay niversity, working on several projects at the interface between polymer physics, non-Newtonian fluids and nanopore flows.

Past Research

I am an experimentalist in the fields of microfluidics and soft matter. I am particularly interested in building physical experimental model systems for the understanding of small scales biological phenomena:

During my PhD (2016-2019), in Gulliver, Paris:

I studied a model microswimmer, a swimming droplet, in realistic situations that biological micro-organism may encounter, such as in presence of a wall, confined in 1D or swimming against gravity.

Project funded by the doctoral school EDPIF.

During my first Post-doc (2020-2021), in the MBNU unit, OIST, Japan:

I built a passive system that mimic the emergent collective behaviour of active biological cilia, by using the coupling between slender structures and an elastic fluid.

Project funded by a Kakheni start-up grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (11000 €/year - 2 years).

During my second Post-doc (2022-2023), in ENS de Lyon:

I studied the translocation of synthetic polymers through nanopores, characterizing some of their properties (size) by developping image analysis tools for the optical characterisation of their translocation signal.

During my third Post-doc (2023-2025), in ENS Paris:

I am trying to induce phoretic flow at the entrance of permaselective nanopores membrane, for application in blue energy - the production of energy from a gradient of salt.

Education

2016-2019 :

Ph.D. in the Gulliver laboratory on "Swimming water droplets in complex environments: Confinement, gravity and collective effects". Doctoral contract with the École Doctorale Physique en Île-de-France Student at PSL university, in ESPCI Paris. Defense in November 2019.

2015-2016 :

Master ICFP in the program Macroscopic Physics and Complexity, in the Physical department of the Ecole Normal Supérieur.

2012-2016 :

MS Student at ESPCI Paris, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris : graduate engineering school of physics, chemistry and biology, and a founding member the research-focused Paris Sciences et Lettres. Master-level Diplôme d’ingénieur ESPCI Paris.

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