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Since March 2026, I have been a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut de Physique de Rennes in the group of François Peaudecerf. From 2024 to 2025, I did a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer research (Mainz, Germany) in the group of Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt. From 2020 to 2023, I did my PhD in the SIMM lab (ESPCI Paris) under the supervision of François Lequeux, Laurence Talini and Émilie Verneuil. I have been a ENS de Lyon student from 2017 to 2020, where I obtained a master’s degree in Physics.

Research interests

My research, primarily experimental, focuses on soft matter, with a particular interest in the dynamics of foams, emulsions, and droplets. I seek to understand the evolution of these systems by emphasizing the small-scale physical phenomena that occur at interfaces, whether liquid-liquid, air-liquid, or liquid-solid, and, more recently, their coupling with bacterial dynamics. For this purpose, I use various imaging (optical microscopy, interferometry, AFM) and characterization (rheology, dynamic light scattering, tensiometry) techniques. I also enjoy developing in-house experiments and codes for image analysis.

Contact information

  Léa Delance
  Postdoctoral researcher

  Institut de Physique de Rennes - Office 032/4
  Rennes, France
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  Email: lea.delance@univ-rennes.fr

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