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

Pattern formation by turbulent cascades

Fully developed turbulence is a universal and scale-invariant chaotic state characterized by an energy cascade from large to small scales at which... (...)


Topology in soft and biological matter

The last years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the emergence and consequences of topological constraints in biological... (...)


A role for conformational changes in enzyme catalysis

The role played by conformational changes in enzyme catalysis is controversial. In addition to examining specific enzymes, studying formal models... (...)


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