Charlie Duclut

Charlie Duclut is an Associate Professor at Sorbonne University and conducts research at the Physico-Chimie Curie laboratory. His work bridges physics and biology, focusing on theoretical approaches such as statistical physics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics to study collective cell behavior and tissue dynamics. Key research areas include the development of theoretical tools like integral geometry and renormalization group methods, applied to problems involving tissue mechanics, electrohydraulics, and morphogenesis. He holds a PhD from Université Paris VI (UPMC) and has held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and Matière et Systèmes Complexes in Paris. His teaching includes thermodynamics, mechanics, and stochastic modeling courses at Sorbonne University and Technische Universität Dresden.

Education: Bachelor/Master at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) with a focus on Macroscopic Physics and Complexity; PhD in theoretical physics under Bertrand Delamotte at LPTMC (UPMC). Research experience includes internships at LANL (USA) and LPS (Paris).

Research Interests: Theoretical frameworks for tissue deformation, interplay of mechanical/hydraulic/electrical tissue properties, and active matter phenomena. Current projects explore electrohydraulic control of cell spheroids and chemotactic self-organization. Active collaborations address biological systems like Drosophila wing discs and ascidian notochords.

Publications highlight contributions to tissue rheology, cellular network dynamics, and fluid-electric interactions. His work has appeared in PNAS, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., and Physical Review series. Invited talks and seminars span international conferences and institutions including Rice Global Paris Center, Westlake University, and EMBL.