Team

PhD students, postdocs, engineers and interns working on droplet microfluidics, soft matter and immunology at the Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

Jacques Fattaccioli

Associate Professor (HDR) in Chemistry, Sorbonne Université
Team leader, MesoBioLab — CPCV laboratory (ENS-PSL) and Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

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Positions and education

Current positions

• Co-director, Grand Programme PSL – Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (2025–present)
• Director, Master 2 Microfluidics and Miniaturization (2018–present) — microfluidics-master.fr
• Team leader, Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (2015–present) — institut-pgg.fr
• Member, CPCV laboratory (UMR 8228), ENS-PSL (formerly PASTEUR, UMR 8640; 2009–present) — chimie.ens.fr
• Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor, Sorbonne Université (2009–present)

Previous positions and education

• Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Professor, CSMR, New York University (2023)
• Dean of Studies, EELISA European University (2021)
• Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Sorbonne Université (2017)
• Postdoctoral researcher, LIMMS (B.J. Kim lab), IIS, University of Tokyo (2006–2009)
• PhD in Chemistry, UPMC (2002–2006), advisor J. Bibette (LCMD, ESPCI)
• MSc in Soft Matter Science, UPMC (2001–2002)
• Engineering degree in Physics and Chemistry, ESPCI (1998–2002)

Current members

Héloïse Uhl

Postdoctoral researcher · 2026

Mechanobiology of phagocytosis — force mapping by image analysis

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Alexandre Chargueraud

PhD student · 2022–2026

Immobilization and selection of microalgae using microfluidics

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Moein Derakhshan

PhD student · 2026–2029

Migrating droplets driven by actin–myosin I motors

Co-supervised with F.-C. Tsai (Institut Curie, primary supervisor)

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Sihem Guelai

Intern · 2026

M2 Chemistry, Sorbonne Université

Mame-Penda Mbodji

Intern · 2026

M1 Chemistry and Biology, Sorbonne Université

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Alumni

• Héloïse Uhl — PhD student (2022–2026) LinkedIn
• Chiara Pompili — PhD student (2022–2026), co-supervised with F. Niedergang (Institut Cochin) LinkedIn
• Estelle Lu — PhD student (2022–2025) LinkedIn
• Mathieu Goncalves-Venturelli — Postdoctoral researcher (2024–2025) LinkedIn
• Aurélien Lepoëtre — Postdoctoral researcher (2023–2025) LinkedIn
• Charles Cavaniol — Postdoctoral researcher (2023–2024) LinkedIn
• Martin Coux — Postdoctoral researcher (2023–2024) LinkedIn
• Wafa Hechiche — PhD student (2019–2023), co-supervised with J. Vinh (ESPCI)
• Chaohe Hu — PhD student (2019–2023), CSC grant
• Gabriel Fina — Research engineer (2021–2022) LinkedIn
• Léa Pinon — Postdoctoral researcher (2017–2021) ORCID
• Julie Signeux — Research engineer (2020–2021) LinkedIn
• Kaori Sakai — Engineer (2017–2019) LinkedIn
• Lorraine Montel — Postdoctoral researcher (2016–2019) ORCID
• Olivier Mesdjian — PhD student (2014–2017) ORCID
• Pascal Matton — PhD student (2014–2017), co-supervised with J.-M. Mallet
• Sandrine Quignard — Postdoctoral researcher (2013–2017)
• Diana Molino — Postdoctoral researcher (2013–2016) LinkedIn
• Kalthoum Ben M'Barek — PhD student (2011–2015) LinkedIn

Former interns and undergraduate students (31)

• Capucine Zimmer (2026) — Intern (ESPCI, 1st year)
• Lamia Taheraly (2026) — Intern (ENSMAC Bordeaux, 3 months)
• Lina Bergounioux (2026) — Intern (Chimie Paris, 1A)
• Elise Cao (2025) — Intern (ESPCI, 1st year)
• Juliette Mérigot--Lombard (2024) — Intern (M2 Microfluidics)
• François Lambeaux (2024) — Intern (M2 Microfluidics)
• Cylia Birba (2024) — L3 Pro, Sorbonne Université
• Charlie Brunet (2023) — Intern (L3 Pro Formulation, Sorbonne Université)
• Lina Ben Salem (2022) — Intern (L3 Pro Formulation, Sorbonne Université)
• Romane Vinot (2021) — Intern (M2 Microfluidics)
• Walid Bezaouch (2021) — L3 Pro, Sorbonne Université
• Sarah Duclos-Ivetich (2020) — M1 Intern, PSL SGM Master
• Romane Vinot (2020) — L3 Intern, ENS Paris-Saclay
• Nawel Sebih (2020) — L3 Pro Formulation, Sorbonne Université
• Flore Caré (2020) — Intern/Engineer (M2 Microfluidics, PSL SGM)
• Lucie Lacour (2019) — Intern (M1 Chemistry, Sorbonne Université)
• Léa Boudinet (2015) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Margot Hily (2015) — Undergrad (U. Paris Sud)
• Marius Hervé (2014) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Gianmarco Nocera (2013) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Dario Bazzoli (2013) — Undergrad (U. Milano)
• Guillaume Fraux (2013) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Amélie Nicolay (2013) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Charlotte Quintana (2012) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Morgane Bontems-Van Heijenoort (2012) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Manon Quentrec (2012) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Marie Labeye (2011) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Pauline Junquet (2011) — Undergrad (ENS)
• Jeannette Chokki (2011) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Quentin Senez (2011) — Undergrad (UPMC)
• Clothilde Longuet (2010) — MSc (UPMC)

Join the team

We welcome motivated students and researchers interested in microfluidics, droplet-based systems, soft matter, biophysics and immunology, with a taste for quantitative experiments and data analysis: M1/M2 internships, PhD positions (depending on funding calls), postdocs (including MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, which we are happy to host and help prepare), and research engineers.

Send a short CV, a few lines on your interests and, optionally, links to publications, code or previous projects to jacques.fattaccioli [at] ens.psl.eu. Current openings are listed on the Open positions page.