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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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 (...)


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Publications

Symmetry-driven artificial phononic media

Phonons are quasiparticles associated with mechanical vibrations in materials. They are at the root of the propagation of sound and elastic waves,... (...)


Transition to Collective Motion in Nonreciprocal Active Matter: Coarse Graining Agent-Based Models into Fluctuating Hydrodynamics

Two hallmarks of nonequilibrium systems, from active colloids to animal herds, are agent motility and nonreciprocal interactions. Their interplay... (...)


Stability conditions of chemical networks in a linear framework

Autocatalytic chemical reaction networks can collectively replicate or maintain their constituents despite degradation reactions only above a... (...)


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