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 11 research laboratories , all endorsed and jointly supported by CNRS.


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 (R. Lobo) :
   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 (C. Creton)
   Out of Equilibrium Soft Matter (L. Talini)

• 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)
   Brain-Computer Interfaces (F. Vialatte)
   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)