We are theorists and experimentalists working at the interface of physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. Our research focuses on soft matter (colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, granular matter, thin sheets...), active matter (self-propelled colloids, swimming droplets, walking grains, swarms of robots... ) and molecular systems (DNA, RNA, enzymes...). We study various aspects of these systems such as topology, self-assembly, interfaces, information processing, evolution..., while also developing general theoretical methods. The name Gulliver captures the diversity of scales that are studied in the lab.

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The IOP-SFP 2024 Holweck Prize awarded to Ludovic Berthier

Ludovic Berthier is Director of Research (DRCE) at CNRS. After a post-doctorate at Oxford University (2001-2004), he joined the CNRS Charles (...)


Gulliver member Joshua D. McGraw (CR CNRS) is...

Gulliver member Joshua D. McGraw (CR CNRS) is among 20 French researchers to be awarded a 2024 Horizon Europe Consolidator Grant. During the (...)


The Gulliver lab has joined Institut de...

The Gulliver lab has joined Institut de Physique as a second Institut principal together with Institut de Chimie. This is a nice recognition of (...)


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Publications

Nonreciprocal Ising model

Systems with nonreciprocal interactions generically display time-dependent states. These are routinely observed in finite systems, from... (...)


Martingale drift of Langevin dynamics and classical canonical spin statistics. II.

In the previous paper we have shown analytically that the drift function of the đť‘‘-dimensional Langevin equation is the Langevin function with a... (...)


What does an ion feel at the electrochemical interface? Revisiting electrosorption through nonlocal electrostatics

The traditional Gouy–Chapman–Stern theory has been effective in explaining the behavior of dilute electrolytes in the electrical double layer... (...)


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