Research Activities

Theme 4 : - Polysaccharides at surfaces and interfaces, engineering of the surface of implants.
               - Mechanical and physical properties of hydrogels and tissues,
               - Structure of biosourced amphiphilic copolymers,
               - Structure-properties relationship in physical hydrogels.

Champs d'intérêt

Polysaccharides; chitosan; responsive interpolymer complexes;
thermodynamics, mechanical and surface properties of hydrogels;

Surface modification, wetting; polymer brushes; adhesion;

Reflectivity and scattering techniques; molecular characterization techniques.

Teaching activities

Durability and end-of-life of polymer-based objects, Licence 3 Pro
Polymer solutions, Master 1;
Structure characterization by scattering techniques, Master 2;
Ecodesign and life cycle analysis, Master 2

Short CV

2007 Engineering degree, ESPCI ParisTech, Paris (France)
2007 Master, Physics of Liquids and Soft Matter, UPMC, Paris (France)
2011 PhD, Physics and Chemistry of Materials, UPMC, Paris (France)
2011 Post-doctoral fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)
2012 Associate professor, UCBL, Lyon (France)