We are theorists and experimentalists working at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. Our research focuses on soft matter (colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, granular matter, thin sheets...), active matter (self-propelled colloids, swimming droplets, walking grains, swarms of robots... ) and molecular systems (DNA, RNA, enzymes...). We study various aspects of these systems such as topology, self-assembly, interfaces, information processing, evolution..., while also developing general theoretical methods. The name Gulliver captures the diversity of scales that are studied in the lab.

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Ludovic Berthier joins Gulliver for a one year visit

We are happy to host Ludovic Berthier, a CNRS Research Director from the laboratory Charles Coulomb, University of Montpellier, who joins (...)


Welcome to Jeldy Cubas Hernandez

Gulliver warmfully welcomes Jeldy, our new administrative assistant, in charge of the relation with the ESPCI support functions. We wish Jeldy (...)


Michel Fruchart joins Gulliver

We are pleased to welcome Michel Fruchart, CNRS researcher, who has joined our lab. His research interests center on condensed matter physics, (...)


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Publications

Harnessing DNA computing and nanopore decoding for practical applications: from informatics to microRNA-targeting diagnostics

DNA computing represents a subfield of molecular computing with the potential to become a significant area of next-generation computation due to... (...)


Design principles, growth laws, and competition of minimal autocatalysts

The difficulty of designing simple autocatalysts that grow exponentially in the absence of enzymes, external drives or ingenious internal... (...)


Tuning collective actuation of active solids by optimizing activity localization

Active solids, more specifically elastic lattices embedded with polar active units, exhibit collective actuation when the elasto-active feedback,... (...)


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