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.

Discover our Internships and PhD 2025


News

Paul Baconnier, lauréat du prix Claudine Hermann 2023

Paul Baconnier completed his thesis at the Gulliver laboratory at ESPCI, under the supervision of Olivier Dauchot. In the course of his (...)


Bronze medal 2025: Guillaume Gines experiments with DNA coding

Guillaume Gines, a research fellow at the GULLIVER laboratory, has been awarded the CNRS bronze medal for his work on DNA-based nanotechnologies (...)


The IOP-SFP 2024 Holweck Prize awarded to Ludovic Berthier

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research (DRCE) at CNRS. After a post-doctorate at Oxford University (2001-2004), he joined the CNRS Charles (...)


> More news...

Publications

Active elastic solids : collective motion, collective actuation & polarization

Active solids consist of elastically coupled out-of-equilibrium units performing work. They are central to autonomous processes in biological... (...)


Learning general pair interactions between self-propelled particles

Synthetic active matter systems, such as active colloids, often have complex interactions, which can be of hydrodynamic, chemical or electrostatic... (...)


Reactive mixing enables enzymatic depolymerization of recalcitrant or unsortable polyester wastes

Enzyme-catalyzed depolymerization allows efficient recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) bottles, which are easy to sort and made of... (...)


> More publications

Top