Hello!
I’m a CNRS researcher at MSC lab in Paris
My main research interest concerns the coupling between hydrodynamics and soft matter, especially at small scales. I’m trying to combine methods from both fields to study innovative problems araising at interfaces. I am currently working on a project where we couple phase transition (freezing) to capillary flows. We study different cases, from drops impacting on cold substrates to frozen capillary rivers.
Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at LadHyX and Institut d’Alembert in Paris, between 2018 and 2020, where I started working on freezing.
Before coming back to Paris, I spent almost 3 years in the Garbin Research Group, at Imperial College, London. I was working on a project interested in the acoustical response of micro-bubbles covered with particles. The aim is to link the evolution of the microstructure (local description) to the rheological properties of the interface (global descirption) and ultimatelly characterize it through the accoustical response of the bubble.In those experiments, I typically use high-speed imaging and microscopy techniques combined with image analysis and try to compare the results with theoretical/numerical models.
I got my PhD in 2015 in Paris (ESPCI) under the supervision of Marie-Caroline Jullien. During my PhD I was interested in two aspects of microfluidics. The first one is linked to the dynamical properties of lubrication films. They typically develop between a droplet and the channel walls and their thickness is a key parameter for the determination of the droplet velocity. To measure those thicknesses, I developped an interferometric tool (RICM) allowing us to measure film thicknesses down to 10 nm with a high precision. The second aspect was more applicative, where we created a chip allowing for the creation, the displacement, the sorting, and the splitting of microdrops thanks using local thermal expansion of the PDMS.
