Members of the board

Aurélie Dupont is a CNRS researcher at LIPhy (Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Physics). She has been interested in quantitative fluorescence microscopy of FRET-based biosensors for years. She is currently mostly interested in collective movements of animals in complex environments and the particular influence of cognition in macroscopic active matter.

Arnaud Buhot is CEA Research Director at the SyMMES Laboratory (UMR 5819 UGA, CNRS, CEA, Grenoble INP-UGA). Its research activities mainly concern the development of biosensors for medical diagnosis and a biomimetic optoelectronic nose.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Gaëlle Offranc Piret is an INSERM researcher. She obtained her PhD in Physics and works on the development of micro-nanotechnologies/materials and the study of their interactions with cells or biological organisms. More specifically, she works on brain implants for neural diseases and their clinical transfer (ERC 2014 BRAIN MICRO SNOOPER).                

Jean-Francois Adam is assc. prof at UGA medicine faculty and a medical physicist at the hospital. After a PhD in medical physics and biomedical engineering, he conducted active research in medical applications of synchrotron radiation. He leads a master program  (Medical Physics and Radioprotection), and a graduate school program (physical and numerical methods for health). His research is in medical physics issues in advanced radiotherapy modalities, with an emphasis on theoretical and experimental dosimetry.

Elisa Migliorini is a CNRS researcher. Since her PhD and her post-doc (Marie-Sklodowska-Curie fellow, Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany), she focused her studies at the interface between cells and substrates. She is now PI (Principal Investigator) of national and international grants and aims to design biomaterials with controlled chemical functionalization and mechanical properties able to mimic selected aspects of the extracellular matrix presentation of growth factors and glycosaminoglycans.

Ivan Junier is a biophysicist working on rationalising the tinkering that has shaped the content, organisation and structuring of bacterial genomes. He develops quantitative, biophysical models of DNA in interaction with various fundamental proteins and molecular machineries that are crucial for gene expression, chromosome replication and chromosome segregation. To navigate in the (sometimes dark) space of bacterial genomes, he uses comparative genomics and statistical methods to distinguish between universal and idiosyncratic features.

Xavier Le Guével is a CNRS research director at the Institute for Advanced Sciences (IAB) in Grenoble. His work focuses on the development of new nanomaterials such as metal nanoclusters and optical instruments for medical applications and more specifically for cancer treatment and diagnosis from the fundamental research to pre-clinical applications.                                                                                                                                           

Franck Quaine works in the field of biomechanics. His research focuses on the inverse dynamics model of the musculoskeletal system. He tries to understand how force is distributed between muscles. The scientific challenge is to solve underdetermined mathematical problems and he proposes innovative solutions by mixing the biomechanical approach and several adapted optimization methods using the electrical activity of the muscles in the computations. The main fields of application are health, sport and well-being. Franck Quaine is the head of the MOVE team at the Gipsa laboratory.

Emmanuel Hadji is Director of Research at CEA-Grenoble and member of the Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale - IRIG - PHELIQS. He graduated as engineer (1993), holds a PhD in Physics (1996) and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (2006). His background is semiconductor physics and most of his work has been dedicated to photonic crystals and optical microcavities. His current research covers the fields of nanophotonics and emerging applications based on optical tweezers and light - trapped object interactions at the nanoscale.

Cécile Delacour is a CNRS researcher at NEEL Institut, Grenoble-France since 2011. She graduated in functional materials and nanophysics from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (PHELMA) and holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Université Joseph Fourier (UGA) in 2007. Her current research interests focus on the organization and functional properties of living matter that bridge solid-state electronics and biological systems, including advanced materials and nanoelectronic devices for neurosciences. 

Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel graduated (1993) from the PHELMA school of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble in energy and nuclear engineering. She holds a PhD (1996) in subatomic physics from UGA. She is currently a research director at the CNRS and a member (since 1996) of the LPSC (Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology) in Grenoble. She has expertise in detector development, her research focuses on medical physics issues in functional imaging techniques and online control of advanced radiotherapy modalities. She coordinated the development of an innovative Positron Emission Tomography demonstrator and is now involved in the development of diamond-based detectors for online monitoring of FLASH therapies. Currently, she leads the LPSC nuclear and medical physics team.