Nicolas Bain

Nicolas Bain is a CNRS researcher at the Univ-Lyon1.fr domain, affiliated with the Institut Lumière Matière. His work bridges experimental and theoretical physics, focusing on active matter and soft material mechanics.

• Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• PhD in Physics, ENS de Lyon, France
• MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Engineer’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique, France

Research spans active matter, soft solids, interfacial phenomena, and mechanical metamaterials. Collaborators include researchers from Cornell, Lehigh University, ETH Zürich, and French institutions.