2016 Soft Matter Lectureship is awarded to Damien Baigl

15 Mar 2016

We are delighted to announceProfessor Damien Baigl(ENS/UPMC/CNRS) as the2016软物质讲师winner.

The软物质 Lectureship,now in its seventh year,是一个年度奖项，表彰早期职业研究人员在软物质领域的重要贡献。The recipient is selected by the软物质Editorial Board from a list of candidates nominated by the community.

Read on to find out more about Damien…

Damien did a PhD on soft matter physics with Claudine Williams in the laboratory of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at College de France in Paris before a post-doc in biophysics at Kyoto University with Kenichi Yoshikawa.Since 2005,he has been working at the UMR PASTEUR (ENS/CNRS/UPMC) laboratory located at the Department of 新利手机客户端Chemistry of Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS,PSL Research University) in Paris (France).He was appointed ENS assistant professor in 2005 before becoming full professor (2nd class) at University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC,Sorbonne Universités) in 2010 and 1st class UPMC professor in 2013.Former member of the Institut Universtaire de France (IUF),he got an ERC starting grant in 2010.达米恩做了很多，interdisciplinary and highly original contributions to the soft matter field in topics ranging from DNA compaction,gene expression photocontrol,synthetic biology and artificial cell systems to evaporative assembly,coffee-ring effect manipulations and light-driven microfluidics.

Damien's website can be found at http://www.baigllab.com/

To learn more about Damien's research,please see the following for his recent work in软物质:

Preparation of one- to four-branch silver nanostructures of various sizes by metallization of hybrid DNA–protein assemblies
Sergii RudiukAnna Venancio-Marques,Géraldine Hallais and Damien Baigl
软物质,2013，9,9146-9152

Theory of DNA–cationic micelle complexation
赫尔穆特·希塞尔，María D.Correa Rodr_guez，Sergii RudiukDamien Baigl Kenichi Yoshikawa
软物质,2012，8,9406-9411

DNA compaction: fundamentals and applications
André Estévez-Torres and Damien Baigl
软物质,2011,7,674-6566

Enhancement of DNA compaction by negatively charged nanoparticles.Application to reversible photocontrol of DNA higher-order structure

Sergii RudiukKenichi Yoshikawa and Damien Baigl

软物质,2011, 7,5854-5860

Keep your eyes peeled forDamien's upcoming 软物质 article以表彰讲师奖。

We would like to thank everybody who nominated a candidate for the Lectureship;we received many excellent nominations,and the Editorial Board had a difficult task in choosing between some outstanding candidates.

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