Principal Investigators

Invited

PostDocs and Engineers

PhD Students

Internships

Nazli Demirpehlivan, Master 2, IDIL, University of Montpellier

Rayd Ayad, Master 2, IDIL, University of Montpellier

Visitors

• Prof. Alejandro V Arzola, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2024-2025

• Prof. Marianne Fenech, Ottawa University, Canada, 2023

• Prof. Howard A. Stone, Princeton University, USA, 2022

• Prof. Narla Mohandas, NY City Blood Center, USA, 2021

• Prof. Roberto Bernal, USACH, Chile, 2022 and 2016

PostDoc Alumni

• Thales Fernandes. Postdoc, 2021-2023. Photonic Force Microscopy.

• Viviana Claveria, Postdoc, 2017-2019, Rheoblood project. (now Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) 

• Zhanna Santybayeva, Postdoc 2014-2017. Optical Torque wrench (now Data engineer in Sirano)

• Luca Lanotte, Postdoc 2014-2017, Hemorheology at high shear rates from Red blood cells to suspensions (now Researcher at INRAE)

• Delphine Chamousset. Lab Manager (now Process Expert at Novartis)

• Cyrille Claudet, Postdoc, 2012-2014, cDICE red blood cells membrane curling (now Research Engineer in Nice)

PhD Student Alumni

• Andy Vinh Le Blood Suspension flow, 2020-2024.

• Valeria Ciccone Visiting PhD student, Dense Blood Suspension flow. Oct-Dec 2024.

• Anaïs Biquet-Bisquert, Proton Motive Force Dynamics driving the bacterial flagellar motor: temporal and spatial characterization, 2019-2024. (now Postdoc in our team)

• Arianna Giannetti, Microfluidic approach of deep vein thrombosis, 2020-2024. (now Postdoc in Ecole Polytechnique)

• Rudy Desgarceaux, PhD student. Nanofabrication and PhFM. 2016. In collaboration with Benoit Charlot at IES Montpellier.

• Viviana Claveria, PhD student 2014-2017, Sickle cell anemia and healthy red blood cells dynamics in capillaries

• Octavio Albarran, 2010-2013, Study of Malaria parasite egress from red blood cells

• Minyoung Heo PhD student, 2014-2016.Bacterial flagellar motor

• Loic Dumas, PhD Student, 2014-2018, Nucleation, growth and destabilization of pores in membranes of helathy and malaria-infected red blood cells (now Image Analysis Engineer)

• Magalie Manaargadoo catin, supervision in 2015, Study of the interactions between surfactants and blood cells

• Nathalie Casanova, 2009-2012, Study of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites motiliy

• Etienne Loiseau, 2008-2011, Biomimetic approach of sickle cell anemia (now CNRS Researcher in Marseille) 

Undergrad and Master Alumni

• Patricia Noemi Lazo Paravicini, Master 2, University of Montpellier

• Adrian Schink, Master 2, University of Montpellier, 2024 (now a PhD student in our group)

• Thomas Druot, Master 2, University of Montpellier, 2024 

• Antonin Prom, IDIL Master 1, University of Montpellier, 2024

• Clara Gremmelspacher, Master 2 internship, University of Bayreuth, 2024 (now a PhD student in our group)

• Margot Bellenguez, Master 2 internship 

• Baptiste Carrio, Master 1 internship (Un. Montpellier). Flagellar motor. 2021

• Guillaume Ramadier, Master internship (ENS Lyon). Optical tweezers and Red Blood Cells mechanics. 2021

• Davide Sbroggio' . (Phelma, Grenoble). Optical tweezers and Red Blood Cells mechanics. 2021

• Pierre Martin, Master 1 internship (Un. Montpellier). Analysis of experimental traces. 2020

• Nathan Meyer, Master 1 internship (Un. Montpellier). Bacterial Flagellar Motor. 2019

• Mahmoud Attia, Erasmus Mundi internship. Bacterial Flagellar Motor. 2019

• Younes Babaaziz, Master 1 internship (Un. Montpellier). Bacterial Flagellar Motor. 2018

• Eliana Battistella, Master internship Univ. Bologna (Italy). Optical Torque Wrench. 2017.

• Rodolphe Moti, Master 1 internship Single molecule manipulation. 2017. In collaboration with C.Coillot at L2C Montpellier.

• Emilie Gachon, Master 2 internship, 2017. Flagellar motor.

• Naoki Kawamura, Master internship(Tokyo University). Modeling of the BFM. 2016

• Emilie Gachon, Master 1 internship. Flagellar motor. 2015

• Rudy Desgarceaux, Master 2 internship (Phymatech). Nanofabrication. 2016. In collaboration with Benoit Charlot at IES Montpellier.

• Simon Buy, Master 2 internship. 2016. Single molecule manipulation. (in collaboration with Christophe Coillot).

• Clément Rodier, Master 1 internship. Theory of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor. 2016. (in collaboration with Andrea Parmeggiani)

• Anton Pols, Master thesis. Modeling BFM dynamics. 2015 (in collaboration with M.Depken, TU Delft the Netherlands)

• Afaf Meghit, Master 1, internship. Nanofabrication. 2015

• Charles de Marin, Bachelor internship. Optical Torque Wrench. 2015

• Florian Morati, Master 2 internship. Bacterial flagellar motor. 2015

• Yan Valette, BTS internship. OD-meter. 2015

• Laetitia Hudecek, Master 1 internship. 2014

• Alexandre Deramecourt Professionnal Bachelor internship, .Nanofabrication. 2015

• Frank.Guiochon, BTS internship 2014

• Guillaume Ribiere, BTS internship 2013