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I’m a young researcher in physics interested in all aspects of soft, active, disordered, and complex matter. My research focuses on mechanical systems that do things by themselves, such as active solids, metamaterials, and amorphous materials.

I’m an ATER (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche) at ENS de Lyon, teaching in the Département de Physique, and studying model active matter systems at the LPENSL.

Before that, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at AMOLF with Martin van Hecke, and I did my PhD in the Gulliver Lab at ESPCI Paris with Olivier Dauchot.


Active elastic solids
Collective actuation in spring networks doped with self-propelled robots.

Memory in amorphous materials
Cyclically driven amorphous materials, aging, memory effects.

Autonomous ciliary walkers
Autonomous behavior switching of an array of soft cilia.


Academic background :

  • PhD in Physics (2019-2022) ESPCI Paris, Paris, France
    Active elastic solids : collective motion, collective actuation & polarization
    Supervisor : Olivier Dauchot, Gulliver Lab
    Collaborators : Gustavo During (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Corentin Coulais (University of Amsterdam), Vincent Démery (ESPCI Paris)
  • MSc ICFP (Soft Matter track, 2018-2019) ENS Ulm, Paris, France
  • ESPCI Paris (Physics track, 2015-2018) Paris, France

Contact :
paul.baconnier75@gmail.com
@BaconnierP
AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG, Amsterdam
Netherlands