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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Mathilde Reyssat defended her HDR (Habilitation to direct research) on 5 December 2024, awarded by PSL University.

Her work entitled ‘Megakaryocytes, capsules and swimming drops under confinement’ describes her research activities (summarised opposite), teaching (...)


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 (...)


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Publications

Parallel development of social behavior in biological and artificial fish

Our algorithmic understanding of vision has been revolutionized by a reverse engineering paradigm that involves building artificial systems that... (...)


The glass transition in molecules, colloids and grains: universality and specificity

We highlight certain key achievements in experimental work on molecular, colloidal and granular glassformers. This short review considers these... (...)


Viscous tweezers: Controlling particles with viscosity

control of particle motion is generally achieved by applying an external field that acts directly on each particle. here, we propose a global way... (...)


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