Welcome on the website of the 5th edition of the PSL Soft and Living Matter days! This event will take place from July 7th to 9th 2025 at Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and will give the opportunity to the PSL community to learn and discuss about research activities in the broad field of Soft Matter carried out at PSL University. 

In addition to the exciting line of speakers (see below), we will have several topical sessions with contributed talks and a poster session.

This 5th edition will also be a special one with a Gala Dinner and a cruise on a boat in the Seine on July 8th, as well as many prizes to win (best oral contribution, best poster and a photo contest). Note that we have a limited number of opening for the Gala Dinner. The participation will be on a first come/first serve basis and we will favor participants who submitted a poster/oral contribution.

We count on you to register to the event and submit an abstract!

Deadline for registration and abstract submission May 2nd 2025

Free registration (mandatory to attend the workshop) HERE

Abstract submission for poster/oral (you also need to be registered!) HERE

Confirmed PSL invited speakers

Philippe Bourrianne (PMMH, ESPCI) - Plant-fungal symbiosis: growth and flows

Sylvie Coscoy (PCC, Curie) - 3D controlled fiber arrays to monitor cell-matrix interactions

Jérome Crassous (PMMH, ESPCI)  - Textile mechanics: from cotton fiber to knitwear

Mathilde Lepoitevin (IMAP, ENS) - Tunable Nanoporous Membranes Functionalized with Zr-MOF Nanoparticles for Selective Ion Transport

Emanuelle Marie (PASTEUR, ENS) - PLL-g-PNIPAM : a powerful tool to tune surface and interface properties

Aurélie Mossé (EnsadLab, ENSAD) - ImpressioVivo: a design-led microbial approach to soft & living matter

Carine Robert (IRCP, Chimie Paris) - TBA

Anniina Salonen (SIMM, ESPCI) - Damping bubble dynamics to modulate foam structure

Rudy Valette (CEMEF, Mines) - Stretching, contact line receding and breakup dynamics of capillary bridges between an hydrophobic surface and a bath

Zorana Zeravcic (Gulliver, ESPCI) - Artificial chemistries: From designing matter to mimicking life

Confirmed international invited Speaker

Vincent Craig (Australian National University, Australia) - Bubble Coalescence in pure salt solutions and other bubble explorations

Yanan Liu (Northwest University, Xi'an, China) - self-focusing of swimming bacteria in filament suspensions.