In a recent work, researchers show that particles entrained in a flow close to a deformable wall undergo a force that moves them slightly away from it, an important result for the general understanding of transport phenomena in biology.

The 2025 Academic Thesis Prize of Université Grenoble Alpes has been awarded to Laura Guislain for her thesis entitled “Characterisation of out-of-equilibrium phase transitions with the emergence of limit cycles”, carried out at LIPhy and supervised by Eric Bertin.

Using laser nucleation of microbubbles, physicists have shown that stomata, the miniature 'gates' that regulate light-dependent evaporation in vascular plants, remain inactive in non-vascular plants such as mosses.

Sascha Hilgenfeldt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Christian Chardonnet (LPL, Paris)

Hugues Favre (TU Delft, the Netherlands)

Damien Toquer (ENS Paris)

Mathieu Sellier (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Hélène de Maleprade and Francesco Picella (Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Paris)