Laboratories

Research at ESPCI is not organized along the typical scheme of a handful of discrete, single-discipline departments. Instead, it is arranged as a larger assembly of topic-focused laboratories collectively covering a large and diverse subject area across physics, chemistry and biology. Today, such assembly brings together 10 research laboratories , all endorsed and jointly supported by CNRS or Inserm.


The direct links to the 11 ESPCI/CNRS Research Labs, with their internal teams, are below:

• Langevin Institute "Waves & Images" (A. Tourin) :
  – Waves in Complex Media (R. Carminati)
  – Subwavelength Physics (Y. De Wilde)
  – Non-conventional imaging and sensing (C. Prada-Julia)

• Physics for Medicine (M. Tanter) :
  – Quantification and ultrasound biomarkers (M. Pernot)
  – Functional ultrasound imaging (T. Deffieux)
  – Ultrasound-based therapy (J-F. Aubry)

• Paris Porous Material Institute (C. Serre)

• Gulliver (O. Dauchot) :
  – Molecular and colloidal systems
  – Interfaces in soft matter
  – Active matter and collective effects
  – Topological soft matter
  – Information and stochastic dynamics
  – Numerical and analytical methods

• Physics & Materials (D. Roditchev) :
  – Functional Quantum Materials (D. Roditchev)
  – Nanomaterials (N. Lequeux)
  – Instrumentation (S. Holé)

• Physics & Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (D. Vandembroucq)
  – Hydrodynamics
  – Interfaces
  – Soft matter and Biophysics
  – Physical Mechanics and statistical physics

• Soft Matter Sciences and Engineering (E. Barthel) :
  – Colloids, Assemblies & Interfacial Dynamics (N. Sanson)
  – Soft Polymer Networks (Y. Tran)
  – Out of Equilibrium Soft Matter (E. Verneuil)

• Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry, and Materials (M. Cloître) :
  – Molecular Chemistry and Catalysis (A. Guérinot)
  – Macromolecular chemistry and Design (R. Nicolaÿ)
  – Chemistry and Physicochemistry of Formulation (F. Tournilhac)

• Chemistry, Biology & Innovation (J. Bibette), including :
  – Colloids & Dispersed Materials (J. Bibette)
  – Innovative Materials for Energy (A. Colin)
  – Biochemistry (A. Griffiths)
  – Analytical, Bioanalytical Sciences & Miniaturization (V. Pichon)
  – Evolutionary Genetics (P. Rainey)

• Brain Plasticity (T. Preat), including :
  – Genes & dynamics of memory systems (T. Preat & P.Y. Plaçais)
  – Genes Circuits Rythms & Neuropathology (S. Birman)
  – Memory, Oscillations & Brain States (K. Benchenane)
  – Cerebral Codes and Circuits Connectivity (G. Vetere)
  – Biological Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics (J. Vinh) :
  - Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics
  - Analysis of post-translational modifications, miniaturization and quantification

Other local team:
– Applied Statistics team (I. Rivals)