Conférenciers invités

Eléna Ishow entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 1990 in the Chemistry Department and prepared her Ph.D. in the group of Nanosciences at CEMES laboratory (Toulouse) under the supervision of A. Gourdon onto the elaboration of molecular wires (1997). She worked as a postdoctoral in the group of Prof. V. Balzani in Bologna (Italy) on photoinduced molecular machines fellow (1997-1998). In 1998, she was appointed assistant professor at ENS Cachan (nowadays ENS Paris Saclay) at PPSM laboratory in the group led by Prof. K. Nakatani and spent meanwhile a one-year sabbatical in T. Swager’s lab at MIT (2003-04). She was promoted full professor at Nantes University in 2010, while joining CEISAM laboratory to carry out her research activities.

She has been developing light-responsive molecules and molecular materials (especially photoswitchable) for more than 25 years to address issues for second-harmonic generation and optical data storage, OLEDs, and hybrid magneto-fluorescent nanoassemblies for dual imaging and on-command theranostics. These various research axes have prompted her to initiate and participate in strongly interdisciplinary research programs at the interface of functional organics, materials science, photonics, biology, clinical psychology, and nanomechanics where light-matter interactions remain the common thread to either conceive the targeted systems or unravel collective phenomena.

Photoactive organic nanoparticles as tunable actors for theranostics

Christophe Moser is Full Professor of Optics in the department of Electric and MicroEngineering (IEM) at EPFL. He obtained his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in optical information processing in 2000. He co-founded and was the CEO of Ondax Inc (now Coherent Inc.), Monrovia California for 10 years before joining EPFL in 2010.  His interests are Volumetric 3D printing, ultra compact endoscopy through multimode fibers, retinal imaging and optical computing. He co-founded Composyt light lab in the field of head worn displays in 2014 (acquired by Intel Corporation in 2015). He is the co-founder or EarlySight SA (2019), Readily3D SA (2020) and Modendo (2021). He is a fellow of the European Optica Society. He is the author and co-author of over 100 peer reviewed publications and over 60 patents.

Volumetric Bioprinting: a new tool for producing artificial tissue models

Régis Grimaud is Full Professor in the group Chemistry and Microbiology of Environment of IPREM at UPPA (France). He prepared his PhD at both the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble (France) in cell and molecular biology in 1995. Before joining the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA) in 2001, he conducted research at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and National Institutes of Health (Bethesda Maryland, USA) as a post-doctoral fellow. His interests are the molecular aspects of biofilms degrading hydrophobic organic compounds, and iron assimilation in marine bacteria. He is a fellow of the board of Société Française de Microbiologie (SFM) and is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications.

Biofilm formation: a microbial strategy to assimilate particular substrates