Permanents: Bruno Andreotti, Kristina Davitt, Frédéric Léchenault, Sébastien Moulinet, Etienne Rolley
Folding, Sliding and Stretching Lab
Mécanique — Matière Molle — Morphogénèse
Bruno Andreotti
Full Professor
Mail: andreotti(at)lps.ens.fr
Laboratoire: 24 rue Lhomond, room L273
Téléphone: +33 01 44 32 34 47
Bruno Andreotti is a Full Professor of Physics at the University of Paris-Diderot. He obtained his PhD on the physics of vortices in laminar and turbulent flows at the Ecole Normal Supérieure. His research interests are at the interface between various domains: non-linear physics, soft condensed matter, hydrodynamics, mechanical physics and geophysics. They are mainly curiosity-driven. Combining experiments, numerical simulatons and theory, he has worked on a variety of systems like sand dunes, granular flows, contact lines and polymer gels. He has ongoing collaborations with Jacco Snoeijer, at Twente University, and Philippe Claudin, at ESPCI.
Kristina Davitt
Assistant Professor
Mail: kristina.davitt(at)lps.ens.fr
Laboratoire: 24 rue Lhomond, room PL13
Téléphone: +33 01 44 32 25 23
Kristina Davitt is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Paris-Diderot. She is a native of Canada (BSc Eng. Phys., Queen’s University) and obtained her PhD (Brown University, USA) in wide-bandgap semiconductors and their applications to biological sensing. After a post-doctoral position (ENS, Paris) studying metastable water using Brillouin spectroscopy and other optical methods, she joined the faculty and began working on problems in wetting, particularly on how small-scale heterogeneity and molecular layers affect contact angle hysteresis and dynamics.
Chargé de recherches au CNRS
Mail: frederic.lechenault(at)lps.ens.fr
Laboratoire: 24 rue Lhomond, room GH314
Téléphone: +33 1 44 32 34 47
Frederic Lechenault is a CNRS researcher. He works on origami mechanics,knitted materials, wet granular matter, geophysics, collective swimming, machine learning for soft matter problems and
adhesion.
Assistant Professor
Mail: sebastien.moulinet(at)lps.ens.fr
Laboratoire: 24 rue Lhomond, room PL13
Téléphone: +33 01 44 32 25 23
Sébastien Moulinet is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Sorbonne University. After a PhD thesis studying the dynamics of wetting fronts, he studied superhydrophobic surfaces and flows in microchannels. He has worked on problems in fracture (how balloons pop) and in mechanics of fibers assemblies. Sébastien heads the program for high school physics and chemistry teachers in training at Sorbonne University.
Full Professor
Mail: etienne.rolley(at)lps.ens.fr
Laboratoire: 24 rue Lhomond, room PL13
Téléphone: +33 01 44 32 25 23
Etienne Rolley has been a Full Professor of Physics at University of Paris-Diderot since 1999. His research group “The Folding, Sliding and Streching Lab“ is located at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
E. Rolley first worked on the surfaces of He3 end He4 quantum crystals. After obtaining his « habilitation à diriger des recherches » from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1995), his research activities turned to wetting, with two main axes: wetting transitions in quantum systems and the role of disorder in wetting dynamics. More recently, he has begun working on adsorption in porous materials. In 2014, E. Rolley received the Prix Jaffé de l’Académie des Sciences.
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