Damien Baigl's Biography

Damien Baigl, Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure

Damien Baigl is a professor at UPMC and group leader at the Department of Chemistry of Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He did a PhD under the supervision of C. E. Williams in the laboratory of P.-G. de Gennes at College de France (2001–2003) and a postdoc in the group of K. Yoshikawa at Kyoto University (2003–2005). He is now developing bottom-up physico-chemical approaches to understand and control complex and biological systems. His research interests include DNA compaction, photocontrol of gene expression, arti?cial cell models, micro?uidics for cell and systems biology, and photo-actuation of macro- and micro?uidic systems.