People
Group picture 12/01/2020
From top left : Saikat, Heng, Layla, Kun, Eve, Sergii, Damien, Laura, Qiuyan, Mathieu, Ayako, Julian, Romane, Sovannah, Urszula, Aїssatou, Jiashu,...
Damien Baigl, Prof ENS & Group leader 03/13/2013
No expertise and a lot of curiosity! Current position: Exceptional class Professor (PR EX2, IUF senior) at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)...
Mathieu Morel, MC SU 09/04/2013
Mathieu is expert in microfluidics, physical chemistry, biophysics, and synthetic biology.
Sergii Rudiuk, CR CNRS 01/25/2024
Sergii is an expert in DNA, RNA, surfactants, and nanoparticles. Fan of hard rock music, Sergii can speak about 5 languages.
Ayako Yamada, CR CNRS 11/30/2022
I like to mimic and learn from living matter—even if only small aspects of it—with a microfabrication and microfluidics twist. I enjoy working on...
Saikat Saha, Post-Doc 11/30/2022
Saikat is working on interfacial rheology, microfluidics and synthetic biology. Email: saikat.saha@ens.psl.eu Educational background:...
Laura Bourdon, Post-Doc 01/20/2025
Laura is our expert in isothermal DNA nanotechnology, from nanotubes to DNA origamis.
Kun Wang, Post-Doc 01/20/2025
Kun is our expert in DNA origami functionalization and transformation.
Barbara Jackova, Post-doc 11/01/2020
Barbara is developing an innovative bioassay for high throughput antibody screening leveraging droplet microfluidics.
Heng Ni, Post-Doc 01/20/2025
Heng is our expert in soft DNA nanotechnology.
Layla Fuoco, Research Engineer 05/07/2026
Layla is our expert in coding, organoids and Next Generation Sequencing
Sevde Karatas, Post-Doc 01/20/2025
Sevde is our expert in coffee-ring diagnostics.
Aissatou Billy Diallo, PhD 01/20/2025
Aissatou is our expert in protein labelling and their assemblies.
Romane Yimnia, PhD 01/20/2025
Romane is our DNA nanogel expert.
Urszula Łatosz, PhD 04/17/2026
Urszula is an expert in synthetic biology and neurobiology. She is developing autoregulatory gene circuits for precise MECP2 expression control as a...
Jiashu LI, PhD 03/25/2026
Research experiences: I am a first-year PhD student with Prof. Damien Baigl as supervisor. I specialize in the structural and functional...
Marie Sovannah David, PhD 03/05/2026
Sovannah is working on the vascularization of cerebral organoids.
Former members 12/05/2022
Christmas Party 2025 of the Soft team
Our paper "Enzymatically Active DNA-Protein Nanogels with Tunable Cross-Linking Density" has just been accepted in Biomacromolecules
Our paper "Reversible supra-folding of user-programmed functional DNA nanostructures on fuzzy cationic substrates" has just been accepted in Angewandte Chemie.
2020 Secret Santa
2020 Baigl lab retreat
Our new paper "Liquid-liquid coffee-ring effect" accepted in Journal of Colloids and Interface Science!
Our new paper "Self-propelled water drops on bare glass substrates in air: fast, controllable and easy transport powered by surfactants" published in Langmuir!
