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  • Coarsening of foam made with particle loaded fluids

    • Director(s): Sylvie Cohen-Addad & Olivier Pitois ; sylvie.cohen-addad@insp.upmc.fr & olivier.pitois@univ-eiffel.fr
    Funding: Yes
    Status of the thesis: Proposed thesis and Thesis
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
    Thesis page of the team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Description: https://w3.insp.upmc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PhD-2025-INSP-Navier-Foams.pdf

  • Epitaxy of germanene on silver: theory and simulation

    • Director(s): Jean-Noël AQUA (aqua AT insp.jussieu.fr)
    Funding:
    Status of the thesis: Proposed thesis and Theorical
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
    Thesis page of the team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Description: https://w3.insp.upmc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-thesis-germanene.pdf

  • Exploring 2D topological insulators with epitaxial stanene

    • Director(s): Geoffroy PREVOT (prevot@insp.jussieu.fr) ; Romain BERNARD (romain.bernard@insp.jussieu.fr)
    Funding: Doctoral school (ED397)
    Status of the thesis: Proposed thesis
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
    Thesis page of the team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Description: https://w3.insp.upmc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/StaneneThesisAbstract_2025_ED397.pdf

  • Interactions between nanoparticles and liquid crystal topological defects studied by advanced synchrotron experiments

    • Director(s): Emmanuelle LACAZE (emmanuelle.lacaze@insp.jussieu.fr ; +33 (0)1 44 27 46 54)
    Funding: Ecole Doctorale
    Status of the thesis: Experimental, Proposed thesis, and Theorical
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces
    Thesis page of the team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Description: https://w3.insp.upmc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PhD2_EN.pdf

     

    PhD ongoing

  • 2D/0D Heterostructure for IR Light Absorption/Detection

    • PhD Student: Lam Nguyen Do
    Director(s): Johan Biscaras (IMPMC) and Emmanuel Lhuillier (INSP)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Blue Phase Liquid Crystals

    • PhD Student: Xintao Zheng
    Director(s): Emmanuelle Lacaze
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Composites nanoparticles/liquid crystals for new kinds of photovoltaic devices

    • PhD Student:
    Director(s): Emmanuelle LACAZE (emmanuelle.lacaze@insp.jussieu.fr ; +33 (0)1 44 27 46 54)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Device physics in non-fullerene acceptor solar cell

    • PhD Student: Noemi Vannucchi
    Director(s): Nadine Witkowski
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Electronic structure of infrared nanocrystals probed by photoemission

    • PhD Student: Erwan Bossavit
    Director(s): Emmanuel Lhuillier et Mathieu Silly
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Formation of ordered nanoparticle arrays by confinement in topological defects of smectic liquid crystals

    • PhD Student: Lamya Essaoui
    Director(s): Emmanuelle Lacaze
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Growth and Characterization of Bidimentionnal Pb Layers on Silicon Carbide Substrates

    • PhD Student:
    Director(s): Marie D'angelo and Geoffroy Prévot
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  Spectroscopy of novel quantum states  

  • Growth dynamics of irregular eutectics: in situ experiments

    • PhD Student: Eliane Farhi
    Director(s): Sabine Bottin-Rousseau (INSP), Georges Salloum-Abou-Jaoude (Industriel-Constellium), Silvère Akamatsu (INSP)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Interaction between organic monolayers and graphene oxide sheets

    • PhD Student: Alexia Bistintzanos
    Director(s): Michel Goldmann, Sylvie Spagnoli
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Mid-Wave infrared detectors based on nanocrystals

    • PhD Student:
    Director(s): Emmanuel Lhuillier (INSP) et Nicolas Pere laperne (Lynred)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Modeling and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of silicene epitaxy

    • PhD Student: Kejian Wang
    Director(s): Jean-Noël Aqua
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Multiscale simulation of CVD epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials

    • PhD Student: Vanessa Batibuka Teza
    Director(s): Jean-Noël Aqua (INSP), Benoit Sklenard (CEA), Nicolas Guitard, Fabien Deprat (STMICROELECTRONICS)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Nanoparticle/liquid crystal composites for new types of photovoltaic devices

    • PhD Student: Muyan Zhou
    Director(s): Emmanuelle Lacaze
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • Order and correlated disorder of plasmonic nanocavities confined in liquid crystal topological defects

    • PhD Student: Caterina Tosarelli
    Director(s): Emmanuelle Lacaze (60%), Mathieu Mivelle (20%), Mona Tréguer-Delapierre (20%)
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

  • owards a nanocrystal-based infrared imager integrating spectral filtering functions

    • PhD Student: Albin Colle
    Director(s): Emmanuel Lhuillier
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  

     

    PhD defended

  • Advancing Nanocrystal-based Infrared Imaging: Exploring Novel Strategies in the Design and Characterization

    • PhD Student: Adrien Khalili
    Year of the defense: 2023
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Aging of complex liquid foams

    • PhD Student: Nicolo Galvani
    Year of the defense: 2024
    Funding: ED SIE (Sciences Ingenierie Environnement) Université Paris-Est sup.
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Link TEL: https://w3.insp.upmc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Proposition_these_INSP_2021_En_Cohen-Addad_et_Pitois-Laboratoire_Navier_RELADA-1.pdf

  • Coarsening of bubbly suspensions and foams: the interplay of capillarity and yield stress

    • PhD Student: Nicolò Galvani
    Year of the defense: 2024
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Link TEL: https://hal.science/tel-04881842

  • Controlling the electronic structure and conduction properties of nanocrystals via their coupling with ferroelectric layers

    • PhD Student: Mariarosa Cavallo
    Year of the defense: 2025
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Dynamics of Topological Defects in Freely Suspended Smectic Liquid Crystal Films and Bubbles

    • PhD Student: Amine Missaoui
    Year of the defense: 2021
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Ellucidating interplay, stability and charge transfer dynamics at lead halide perovskite nanocrystal / 2D transition metal dichalcogenide interface for solar cell applications

    • PhD Student: Azmat Ali
    Year of the defense: 2023
    Funding: ED 397
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Link TEL: http://www.ed397.upmc.fr/fr/le-recrutement/propositions_de_theses_financees.html

  • Engineering fluorinated nanoparticles for medical applications: towards structure-properties relationships

    • PhD Student: Pedro Manuel Ribeiro Silva
    Year of the defense: 2025
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Engineering the electronic structure of infrared colloidal heterostructure and its application to the design of a new generation of infrared photodetector

    • PhD Student: Junling Qu
    Year of the defense: 2021
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Experimental study of interfacial anisotropy effects in thin sample directional solidification of Al-Al2Cu eutectic alloys

    • PhD Student: Medhi Medjkoune
    Year of the defense: 2021
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Ferritin nanocages used as programmable bricks for biomolecular electronics

    • PhD Student: Luis Lechaptois
    Year of the defense: 2023
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Functionalization of Silicon substrates with Polyoxometallates

    • PhD Student: Kelly Trinh
    Year of the defense: 2021
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Gold nanoparticles connected by molecular switches

    • PhD Student: Angeline Dileseigres
    Year of the defense: 2022
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Growth and Characterization of Bidimentionnal Pb Layers on Silicon Carbide Substrates

    • PhD Student: Axel Malécot
    Year of the defense: 2024
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  Spectroscopy of novel quantum states  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces   Spectroscopy of novel quantum states  
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  • Influence of electrostatic effects due to radioactivity on the adhesion forces and resuspension of metallic particles

    • PhD Student: Samuel Peillon
    Year of the defense: 2020
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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  • Layered Structures of Metal Sulphides

    • PhD Student: Pedro Lourenço
    Year of the defense: 2021
    Funding:
    Team(s): Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
    Teams' Page of thesis : Chemical Physics and Dynamics of Surfaces  
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