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), (...)


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

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... (...)


Swelling and Evaporation Determine Surface Morphology of Grafted Hydrogel Thin Films

An article resulting from a collaboration between researchers at the gulliver and simm labs at espci, and the loma lab at université de bordeaux... (...)


Algebraic Depletion Interactions in Two-Temperature Mixtures

The phase separation that occurs in two-temperature mixtures, which are driven out of equilibrium at the local scale, has been thoroughly... (...)


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