Julien Bouvard
News
Microfluidic erosion paper in Physical Review X!
26 November 2025
Our article on the erosion-based homogenisation of microfluidic networks is now out in Physical Review X! It was the fruit of a great collaboration with Swarnavo Basu from Karen Alim's group in Munich, while I was working in LadHyX with Gabriel Amselem.
Angéline Girard joins us for a PhD!
3rd November 2025
Angéline Girard is starting her PhD in Exeter, after being awarded a joint studentship between the University of Exeter and Université Paris-Saclay. She will work on the motility of excavates in complex environments. Happy to be her co-supervisor alongside Kirsty Wan in LSI and Harold Auradou in FAST!
New postdoctoral position in Exeter!
4th November 2024
I am delighted to join Kirsty Wan's group in the Living Systems Institute in Exeter, in the South-West of the UK! I will be investigating the behaviour of unicellular eukaryotes such as excavates and diatoms.
Research interests
I am a physicist specialised in fluid mechanics, with a strong interest in hydrodynamics and microfluidics. I am particularly interested in using microfluidics to better understand swimming microorganisms, for instance the interactions of such living microswimmers (bacteria, microalgae...) with their environment.
About me
Currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Living Systems Institute (University of Exeter, United Kingdom) with Kirsty Wan, I am studying the behaviour of unicellular eukaryotes, focusing on gliding diatoms (microalgae) and excavates (flagellates).
During my previous postdoc at LadHyX (École polytechnique, Palaiseau) with Gabriel Amselem, I worked on two main projects:
- Erosion of microfluidic channels to homogenise flows;
- Transport of large passive particles by swimming micro-algae.
