People

Present

Julie Deleuze

Julie, from ENS Lyon, is working as a Post-doc, co-advised with Gautier Verhille, on non-isoviscous turbulent flows, since November 2025.

Aubin Archambault

Aubin, from ENS Lyon, is working as a Post-doc, co-advised with Joël Marthelot and Olivier Pouliquen, on the collective behavior of active fibers, since February 2024.

Hector Urra

Hector, from Santiago Chile, is working as a Post-doc on the breakup of a suspension jet, since September 2023.

Alumni

Klebbert Andrade

Klebbert — PhD student at Saint Gobain Research Paris with Pierre Jop — has been visiting the lab for 3 months by the beginning of 2025, to work on jelling jets.

Ilaria Castaldi

Ilaria has defended her PhD 'Mixing liquids of unequal viscosity', co-advised with Bloen Metzger and part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN CoPerMix Project, on Dec. 2024. Her thesis can be downloaded here.

Now researcher at ASML Veldhoven, world leader in last generation photolythography machines for the microchips industry.

Alexis Bougouin

Alexis did a 24 month Post-doc (2022-24), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Yoël Forterre and in collaboration with Pascal Boustingorry from Chryso Saint-Gobain company, on the flow of a shear-thickening suspension through a pipe.

Now Post-doc in Bari, Italy, with Roberto Sulpizio.

Jan Siemen Smink

Jan Siemen, as a PhD student at Twente Univ. under the supervision of Claas-Willem Visser, has been visiting the lab for 3 months by the end of 2023, to work on jelling jets.

Now Post-doc at University of Twente with Claas Willem Visser.

Fransisco Melo da Rocha

Chico has done a 24 month Post-doc (2022), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Yoël Forterre, on the dynamics of jamming and the drag in a shear-thickening suspension.

Now CNRS researcher at IFADyFE in Buenos Aires.

Baptiste Darbois-Texier

Baptiste has done a 18 month Post-doc (2020), co-advised with Yoël Forterre and Bloen Metzger, on the flow of a shear-thickening suspension down an incline.

Now CNRS Researcher at FAST lab in Orsay, Paris.

Régis Turuban

Régis did a 1 year Post-doc (2019), co-advised with Bloen Metzger, on mixing in a sheared suspension.

Now Post-doc in Trieste, Italy, with Antonio de Simone.

Sergio Palma

Sergio did a 18 month Post-doc (2019) on the coating flow with a particulate suspension.

Now Assistant Professor at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile.

Loren Jørgensen

Loren did a 18 month Post-doc (2018), co-advised with Yoël Forterre, on the impact dynamics of a concentrated suspension drop.

Now CNRS Research Engineer at SIMM lab, ESPCI, Paris.

Mathieu Souzy

Mathieu did a 1 year Post-doc (2017), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Tanguy Le Borgne on mixing and dispersion in a porous medium.

Now INRAE Researcher at RECOVER lab, Aix-en-Provence.

Joris Château

Joris has defended his PhD, co-supervised with Élisabeth Guazzelli, 'Fragmentation of a particulate suspension' in 2018. His thesis can be downloaded here.

Now independent fine art photographer. Link to his website.

Interns

Bruno Weber

Bruno, from Bremen Germany, did a 4 month L3 internship (winter 2023), co-supervised with Ilaria Castaldi & Bloen Metzger, on the mixing of liquids with unequal viscosity.

Héléna Kochman

Héléna, from École Centrale Marseille, did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Joël Marthelot, on the dynamics of an active fiber.

Hugo Desbois

Hugo, from École Polytech Marseille, did 2 month M1 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Ilaria Castaldi & Bloen Metzger, on the mixing of liquids with unequal viscosity.

Basile Giguet

Basile, from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, did a 2 month L3 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Alexis Bougouin & Bloen Metzger, on the dambreak flow of a shear-thickening suspension.

Imene Terchi

Imene, from Aix-Marseille 'Fluids & Solids' M2 did a 5 month internship (spring 2022), co-advised with Fransisco Melo Rocha, Bloen Metzger & Yoël Forterre, on the drag of a sphere in a shear-thickening suspension.

Léonard Maume

Léonard Maume from École Centrale Marseille did a 4 month M1 internship (spring 2022) on the break-up of a suspension jet.

Victor Piard

Victor, from École Centrale Marseille did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2022), co-advised with Joël Marthelot, on programming fibers of shape memory alloys.

Laurence Leclef

Laurence, from École Polytech Marseille did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2021), co-supervised with Joël Marthelot, on the 'Expansion of Poplar Cotton upon Drying'.

Benoit Villard

Benoit, from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rouen, did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2021), co-supervised with Bloen Metzger, on the 'Mixing between Liquids with Different Viscosities'.

Edwyn Guérineau

Edwyn, from Aix-Marseille Univ. did a 2 month L1 internship (summer 2018) on the 'Silo Discharge of a Shear-Thickening Suspension'.

Malek Harb

Malek, from Lebanese University, Beirut, did a 4 month M1 internship (spring 2017) on 'Dip-coating a Solid using a Suspension'.

Thomas Chabannon

Thomas, from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, did a 1 month L3 intersnship (summer 2016) on the 'Coalescence of Suspension Drops'.