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Meet the people behind the LeidenForce Consortium

Excellence in Science Across Borders

LeidenForce is an international consortium for scientific excellence, uniting leading academic and industrial experts from five countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, and The Netherlands.

Each academic partner leads a dedicated Work Package and mentors a Doctoral Candidate (DC) as Principal Investigator (PI), ensuring strong guidance and research excellence.

Our mission is to combine the best of science with strong exposure to the non-academic world, offering DCs a unique opportunity to engage in collaborative research across borders. The consortium is open and dynamic, fostering connections between academic and non-academic partners alike.

Below, you can discover the people who make this collaboration possible. Click on any profile to learn more about their role, research, and contributions.

Key figures

10 academic researchers | 3 industry partners | 2 experts | 5 countries

Project duration

March 1, 2025 – February 28, 2029

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Scott Russel Waitukaitis  

ISTA

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where he runs the Soft and Electrified Materials Lab (SEML).

Specialized in complex phenomena that emerge when everyday materials interact with electric fields.

  • [academic partner]   institute of science and technology austria (ista) • austria 🇦🇹 • 🇺🇸
  • [principal investigator]   dc#3 • tomas cerda

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Pierre Colinet  

ULB

Research Director of FNRS and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Specialized in Fluid Physics, Physical Chemistry and Modeling of Multiphase Systems.

  • [academic partner]   universite libre de bruxelles (ulb) • belgium 🇧🇪
  • [principal investigator]   dc#1 • pablo gilgon

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Stéphane Dorbolo  

ULIEGE

Researcher at Université de Liège and FNRS.

Specialized in soft matter physics (granular material, droplets, bubbles and antibubbles).

  • [academic partner]   universite de liege • belgium 🇧🇪
  • [principal investigator]   dc#4 • gauri patki   |   dc#7 • cheikh tidiane dioum   |   dc#8 • arghya mukherjee
  • [wp leader]  wp6 • management

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Karl Fleury-Frenette  

CSL

Manager of the Technology Partnership Program at the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL).

Specialized in optical coating technologies for space instruments, encompassing design, deposition process engineering, and space qualification.

  • [academic partner]   universite de liege • centre spatial de liege • belgium 🇧🇪

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Christelle Ozaneaux  

ULIEGE

LeidenForce Project Manager at the Université de Liège (Belgium).

Specialized in project management and scientific communication.

  • [academic partner]   universite de liege • belgium 🇧🇪 •  🇫🇷

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Benoit Scheid  

ULB

FNRS research director and professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium).

Specialized in interfacial dynamics and surface rheology.

  • [academic partner]   universite libre de bruxelles (ulb) • belgium 🇧🇪
  • [principal investigator]   dc#10 • mélanie bulois

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Anne-Laure Biance  

CNRS

CNRS research director at Institut Lumière Matière, University Lyon 1.

Specialized in interfacial hydrodynamics (drop dynamics, nanofluidics, bubbles properties and surfactants).

  • [academic partner]   cnrs • france 🇫🇷
  • [principal investigator]   dc#6 • lorena victoria garcia
  • [wp leader]  wp2 • gap

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Alexis Duchesne  

UNIV LILLE

Assistant Professor at the University of Lille, affiliated with the IEMN laboratory.

Specialized in fluid dynamics, with a particular interest in free-surface flows, hydrodynamic instabilities, and interfacial phenomena.

  • [academic partner]   université de lille • france 🇫🇷
  • [principal investigator]   dc#4 • gauri patki
  • [wp leader]  wp5 • dissemination, communication & exploitation

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

David Quéré  

ESPCI PARIS

Physicist at ESPCI Paris PSL.

Specialized in interfaces (films, drops, and bubbles).

  • [academic partner]   espci paris • france 🇫🇷
  • [principal investigator]   dc#9 • information to follow

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Benjamin Sobac  

UPPA

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  • [academic partner]   université de pau et des pays de l'adour (uppa) • france 🇫🇷
  • [principal investigator]   dc#8 • arghya mukherjee

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Detlef Lohse  

UTWENTE

Chair at Univ. of Twente in the Netherlands, Member of the Max Planck Society and of the Max-Planck Institute in Göttingen .

Specialized in turbulence and multiphase flow and micro- and nanofluidics (bubbles, drops, inkjet printing, wetting).

  • [academic partner]   university of twente • the netherlands 🇳🇱 • 🇩🇪
  • [principal investigator]   dc#2 • maxim de wildt
  • [wp leader]  wp1 • droplet

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ACADEMIC PARTNER

Maria Fernandino  

NTNU

Professor at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU, Norway.

Specialized in Fluid Mechanics.

  • [academic partner]   ntnu • norway 🇳🇴
  • [principal investigator]   dc#5 • vahid taheri
  • [wp leader]  wp4 • training

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EXPERT

Chao Sun  

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

Professor and New Cornerstone Investigator at Tsinghua University (China). Professorship at the University of Twente (the Netherlands).

Specialized in multiphase flows, turbulence, bubbles and droplets, and heat and mass transfer.

  • [expert]   tsinghua university • china 🇨🇳 • 🇳🇱

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EXPERT

Dominique Legendre  

IMFT

Deputy director of IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse).

Specialized in multiphase flows, in particular, bubble and drop dynamics including, heat and mass transfer, icing, and wetting phenomena.

  • [expert]   IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse) • france 🇫🇷

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INDUSTRIAL PARTNER

CRM Group  

Centre de recherches metallurgiques ASBL (CRM)

CRM Group specializes in research and development for metallic materials, offering innovative solutions to enhance industrial processes.

  • [industrial partner]   belgium 🇧🇪

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INDUSTRIAL PARTNER

AIRBUS  

Airbus is the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe, providing products, services and solutions for the commercial aircraft, helicopter, defence and space sectors.

  • [industrial partner]   france 🇫🇷

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