ANNE-LAURE BIANCE
Biography
Anne-Laure Biance, CNRS research director at Institut Lumière Matière, University Lyon 1. Specialized in interfacial hydrodynamics (drop dynamics, nanofluidics, bubbles properties and surfactants).
Role in the LeidenForce project
- [academic partner] cnrs • france 🇫🇷
- [principal investigator] dc#6 • lorena victoria garcia
- [wp leader] wp2 • gap
Biography
Anne-Laure Biance is a CNRS research director at Institut Lumière Matière, University Lyon 1.
She develops an experimental activity on interfacial hydrodynamics, which includes drop dynamics, bubbles properties and surfactants, and nanofluidics.
In both cases, she explores the coupling between molecular interfacial transport (ions, solutes, surfactants) and liquid flows.
After studies at ESPCI, she received a PhD from University Paris 6 in 2004 on Leidenfrost drops. She then performed a post-doc in Université d’Evry (France), joined the CNRS in LPMDI in Université Gustave Eiffel (France). She moved to iLM in Lyon in 2009, where she develops her research activity described above.
Lab
The Institut Lumière Matière (iLM) is a CNRS–Université Lyon 1 research unit located on the Lyon Tech La Doua campus. With more than 300 staff members, including around one hundred PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, iLM is a major player in physics and chemistry research in the Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes region and is internationally recognized for the excellence of its research.
The continuum between fundamental research, responses to major societal challenges, and innovation lies at the heart of the unit’s approach. All staff members are committed to promoting excellence and ethical, responsible research.
Its scientists explore six major thematic fields:
- Materials, energy, and photonics
- Soft matter
- Nanosciences
- Optics and ultrafast dynamics
- Theory and modeling
- Living systems, health, and environment
Within the Leidenforce project, two iLM teams are involved (Liquids and Interfaces, Nanostructure Physics and Field Emission). The Liquids and Interfaces team is a soft-matter group with around 20 permanent staff members, whose research topics range from macroscopic physical mechanics (granular media, complex fluids) to liquid physics and nanofluidics, including active matter. The PNEC group, historically specialized in field emission, has broadened its research scope since 2004 to include nanomechanics, NEMS, nanotube synthesis, optics, and thermal properties of 1D or 2D nanostructures.
Affiliation & links
Liquids and Interfaces research team webpage
Nanostructure Physics and Field Emission (PNEC) research team webpage
