Seminars

2025

• March 14 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Matthieu Roché, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC) - Université Paris Diderot
  • “Title to be defined"
• February 7 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Laura Arriaga, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics - Universidad Autonomy de Madrid
  • “Rolling vesicles: From confined rotational flows to surface-enabled motion”

2024

• November 29 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Benjamin Gorissen, Soft Robotics Group, KULeuven
  • “Harnessing nonlinearities in soft robots and their driving fluids"
• November 22 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Nicole R. Demarquette, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montreal
  • “Controlling the Engineering Properties of Polymer Blends and Composites"
• November 15 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Pierre Van de Velde, TIPs - ULB
  • “Hydrogen bubbles around wire electrodes”
• October 25 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Clément Rigaut, Transfers, Interfaces & Processes (TIPs) - ULB
  • “Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery”
• October 11 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Pengyu Shi, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulours (IMFT)
  • “Lateral Migration of a Deformable Bubble Rising Near a Vertical Wall: From Moderately to Highly Inertial    Regimes."

• July 12 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Basavaraja Madivala Gurappa, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
  • "Pickering Emulsions: Fundamental Insights to Applications”

• June 14 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  •  Carlos Martinez Bazan - Universidad de Granada, ETS Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, - Departamento de Mecánica de Estructuras e Ingeniería Hidráulica
  • "Modeling the breakup and coalescence of bubbles"

• May 31 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Matevž Zupančič, University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
  • "Utilization of hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces in phase-change heat transfer related research"
     
• May 24 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Andrei Vedernikov, Université Libre de Bruxelles - Centre for Research and Engineering in Space Technology (CREST) 
  • " "Weak forces" on gas and on particles suspended therein"
     
• May 17 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Aymeric Allemand, Université Libre de Bruxelles - TIPs 
  • "Bridging molecular and continuous nanofluidics"
     
• April 12 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Corentin Caudron, Laboratoire G-TIME - Geochemistry & Geophysics: Tephra, Isotopes, Minerals, Earthquakes - ULB 
  • "Towards unraveling the mechanisms of Calderas’ unrest by monitoring Sounds underwater" 
     
• April 5 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Guillaume Schweicher, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères - ULB
  • "Organic Electronics: Structure-Property Relationships for Improved Transport Properties" 

• March 15 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Juliette Pierre, Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - Sorbonne Université
  • "From bubble bursting to drop impact: surfactant influence on cavity collapse" 
     
• Febraury 23 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Michiel Postema, Tampere University
  • "Acoustic antibubbles" 
     
• Febraury 9 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Anne Gosset, Centro de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Navais e Industriais - Universidade de Coruna
  • "Coupling of a thin film solver with OpenFoam to resolve liquid-gas interaction problems" 
     
• January 19 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • E.S. Benilov, University of Limerick - Ireland
  • "Does the van der Waals force affect evaporation?”

2023

• December 15 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Marie Marsiglia, IFP Energies nouvelles - Applied Physical-Chemistry and Mechanics Division
  • "Flowing Towards a Greener Tomorrow: Microfluidics Paving the Way for Energy and Ecological Transition.”
     
• December 1 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Jacopo Seiwert, Air Liquide
  • "Quelques problèmes de science dans la distillation de l'air"
     
• November 10 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Axel Huerre, MSC lab - Université Paris Diderot
  • "Freezing soft matter"
     
• October 23 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Norihisa MIKI - Keio University, Japan 
  • "How can micro/nano technologies impact your collaborators?" 
• October 20 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Mateo Tunon de Lara, TIPs - Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • "Bragg Grating Generation and Characterization on Planar Silica Substrates"

• October 13 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Ali Gholizadeh, Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique, Laboratoire de microfluidique, Université de Liège
  • "Flipping as a control strategy for centrifugal microfluidics"

• October 6 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Florent Malloggi, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire sur l'Organisation Nanométrique et Supra Moléculaire, CEA, Paris-Saclay
  • "Spontaneous curvature of polymer thin films : a promising route to microfluidic devices"
• June 23 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Hideyuki Sawada, Faculy of Science and Engineering Waseda University
  • "The use of AI and machine learning for understanding, controlling and predicting physical phenomena"
• June 16  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Hideyuki Sawada, Faculy of Science and Engineering Waseda University
  • "Physical properties of a shape-memory alloy and their applications to sensors and actuators."

• May 26  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Arnaud Saint-Jalmes, Institut de Physique de Rennes
  • “Surfactant-induced Marangoni flows : how soluble surfactants spread on liquid surface?”
• March 31  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Jean Cappello, TIPs - Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • "Bioinspired shape shifting of liquid-infused ribbed sheets”
• March 24  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Joël de Coninck,  Visiting professor, TIPs, ULB
  • “Wetting: from basics to applications"
• February 10  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Adrien Bussonnière, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris-Diderot
  • "Acoustic signature of a bursting soap bubble”

• January 20 - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Robin Ras, Aalto University, Finland
  • “How to make durable superhydrophobic coating"

2022

• December 2  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Pierre Van de Velde, LadHyx, École polytechnique, Paris
  • “Wetting and swelling of model elastic fibers”
• October 21  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Baptiste Darbois Texier, FAST, Université Paris-Saclay
  • “Surface instability of shear-thickening suspensions down an inclined plane”
• September 23  - 12:00 - UC2.139
  • Hadrien Oliveri, Mathematical Institute of Oxford
  • “A field theory for plant tropism”
• June 17  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Pierre-Thomas BRUN, Princeton, department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • “Morphing rods for soft-robotics”
• June 13  - 11:00 - UB2.153
  • Tyler D.Ross, Caltech University
  • "Controlling the motion of DNA gliders”
• June 10  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Anke Lindner, ESPCI, Paris
  • “E-coli bacteria in interaction with flows and boundarie”
• June 3  - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Pierre-Thomas BRUN, Princeton, department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • "Building with fluids – a lazy approach to manufacturing"
• May 6  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Franco Pinan Basualdo, ULB-TIPs
  • “Thermocapillary manipulation and its application to study 2D magnetocapillary crystals“
• April 22  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Kanty Rabenorosoa, FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté
  • "Development of soft and continuum robots at small scales”
• April 6  - 14:00 - UB2.153
  • Gerald Fuller, Stanford University, US
  • "Live Cell Rheometry: Applications to Human Health”
• April 1  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Morgane de Toeuf, ULB
  • Présentation du club du corps scientifique des bioingénieurs
• March 25  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Fabian Brau, Service de Chimie Physique et Biologie Théorique, ULB
  • "Fluid-structure interaction in nectar capture by bees"
• February 18  - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Anselmo Pereira, Mines-Paristech
  • "Multiphase flows with viscoplastic materials: numerical simulations and experiments"

2021

• November 26 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Albert Poortinga, Polymer Technology, Mechanical Dpt., TU Delft
  • "Jeu de bulles: some knowns and unknowns in the production of particle-stabilized micron-sized antibubbles"
• November 12 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Nicolas Baeyens, Laboratoire de Physiologie et Pharmacologie, Faculty of Medicine, ULB
  • "Flow sensing in vascular homeostasis and disease"
• October 29 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Alessio Zaccone, Department of Physics, Universita di Milano
  • “Dynamics, structure, and rheology from colloidal systems in shear flow to simple liquids”

2020

• November 13  - 12:00 - Teams meeting
  • lien Microsoft Teams : Rejoindre la réunion Microsoft Teams
  • Karima Chah, Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department, UMONS, Adam Chafaï, Franco Pinan Basualdo, TIPs, ULB
  • "Glass microstructures 3D printing methods and opportunities"
• September 4 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Jonas Miguet, LPS, Université Paris-Saclay
  • “Thinning and stability of surface bubbles”
• March 6 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Adrian Daerr, MSC Paris
  • "Active depinning of bacterial droplets: The collective surfing of Bacillus subtilis"
• February 7 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Maarten Vanierschot, KULeuven
  • "Coherent structures and their dynamics in axisymmetric sudden expansion flows"
• January 9 (Thursday) - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Jean Cappello, PMMH, ESPCI, Paris
  • "Dynamics of freely transported fibers in confined viscous flow”

2019

• December 6 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Ian Griffiths, Mathematical institute, University of Oxford
  • "iPhones, Dysons and Cheerios: fluid mechanics in industry"
• November 29 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Régis Philippe, LPGC, Lyon
  • "Characterizations and developments of structured catalytic three phase reactors"
• November 22 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Timothy Noël, TU Eindhoven
  • "Innovation in synthetic methodology through use of flow"
• November 8 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Antoine Barbot, Imperial College London
  • "Sensors and actuators integration on fiber tip toward microsurgery tools"
• October 25 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Valéry Botton, INSA, Lyon
  • "Acoustic streaming jets or how to drive a square flow"
• October 18 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Lionel Vincent, TIPs, ULB
  • "Water entry of wedges"
• June 28 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Fanny Stauffer, Drug Product Development, UCB Pharma, ex Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Process Analytical Technology, UGent
  • "Process development for tablet manufacturing"
• May 24 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Ruslan Efremov, VIB-Center for Structural Biology, VUB
  • "Microfluidic devices to facilitate single particle cryogenic electron microscopy"
• May 17 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Thomas Lessines, EPFL, Switzerland
  • "New tools for the mechanics of filaments"
• May 10 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Milad Mottaghi, ProcESS: Process Engineering for Sustainable Systems, KU Leuven
  • "A milli-Scale Reactor equipped with a micro-Structure: a scale-up approach for miscible and immiscible system"
• May 3 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Alidad Amirfazli, York University, Toronto
  • "Change of contact angles in condensating environment"
• April 26 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Sylvain Gabriele, Mechanobiology & Soft Matter Group, UMons
  • "Mechanobiology: may the force be with you"
• April 5 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Bart van der Bruggen, CIT, Chemical Engineering, KUL
  • "CNCs/CTA nanocomposite membrane for pervaporation desalination"
• March 29 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Antoine Girot, Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, France
  • "Optical manipulation and deformation of soft interfaces"
• March 15 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Hennie Valkenier, Engineering of Molecular Nanosystems, ULB
  • "The transmembrane transport of ions by organic molecules”
• March 1 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Franco Pinan Basualdo, TIPs
  • "Magneto-thermocapillary manipulation at the free surface”
• Ferbruary 22 - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Emir Vela, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
  • "Thermocapillary micromanipulation”
• February 8th - 12:00 - UB2.153 
  • Christophe Josserand, Ladhyx, École Polytechnique, Paris
  • "Freezing impacts"

2018

• December 7th - 10:00 -  LCO 
  • Julien Leclaire, Labex iMUST, Université de Lyon
  • "Dynamic combinatorial chemistry of carbon dioxide, a new opportunity to address environmental issues"
• October 26th - 12:00 -  UB2.153 
  • Geoffroy Lumay, GRASP, ULiège
  • "Tribo-electric charges in granular materials"
• October 19th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Hugues Bodiguel, Lab. Rhéologie et Procédés, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP
  • "Flow of foam in model porous media"
• Octobre 12th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Takuya Taniguchi, Waseda University, Department of Advanced Science and Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
  • Walking and rolling of crystals induced thermally by phase transition
• August 30th (Thursday!) - 11:00 - UB2.153
  • Hervé Stéphane Elettro, LFMI, EPFL
  • "Functionalizing slender structures with fluid interfaces: a recipe for solid-liquid mechanical hybrids"
• June 1st - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Naveen Reddy, IMO-IMOMEC, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, UHasselt
  • "Orientation dynamics of shape anisotropic particles: Micro to quantum"
• May 25th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Julien Lam, Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • "Role of surfaces and confinement in promoting exotic crystallisation behaviors"
• April 27th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Laurent Francis, Electrical Engineering Department, UCL
  • "Toward direct and label-less detection of a single bacterium"
• April 20th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Jun Zou, The state key laboratory of fluid power and mechatronic systems, Zhejiang University, China
  • "Bubble, jet, Soft Robotics"
• March 23rd - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Alejandro Sevilla Santiago, Fluid Mechanics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • "Instability and break-up of liquid jets with clean and surfactant-laden interfaces"
• March 7th - 11:00 - UB2.153
  • Geun Woo Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
  • "Role of crystal-liquid interfacial free energy on formation of crystals and glasses"
• February 9th - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Stéphanie Descroix, Institut Curies & Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, ESPCI, Paris
  • "Microfluidics and magnetic particles for clinical applications"
• February 2nd - 12:00 - UB2.153
  • Yves Geerts, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères, Faculté des Sciences, ULB
  • "Nucleation and growth of molecular crystals in temperature gradient"