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Work experience
Permanent positions
2018, Université libre de Bruxelles, Professor
2014, Université libre de Bruxelles, Associate Professor
2009, CNRS, Senior Research Fellow (CR1)
2007, Université libre de Bruxelles, Assistant Professor
Invited positions
2015, Okayama (Japan), Integration Systems Lab., Prof. T. Kanda (Erasmus Mundus EASED)
2013, Aalto U (Finland), Prof. Q. Zhou
2011, Tokyo U (Japan), LIMMS, IIS, Prof. H. Fujita
2009, Besançon (France), FEMTO-ST, Prof. N. Chaillet
2008, EPFL (Switzerland), Laboratoire de Production Microtechnique, Prof. J. Jacot
Education
, 2010, Habilitation “Surface tension effects in microrobotics”
2004, hD thesis “Capillary forces in microassembly”
2000, Pedagogical degree towards physics teaching (secundary school)
1998, MD in Electromechanical Engineering
Awards
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- Cover page of the Journal MDPI Acuators, December (2020)
- Best application paper award at IEEE MARSS held in Helsinki, July 1-5th (2019)
- Best application paper nomination at IEEE MARSS held in Nagoya, July 4-8th (2018)
- Cover page of Journal of the Royal Society of Interfaces (JRSI), September (2016)
- “Young Investigator Award” SMIT 2016, to my PhD student L. Blanc, Granular jamming as controllable stiffness mechanism for endoscopic and catheter applications, SMIT conference (2016)
- Best poster award to my PhD student S. Gernay, MicroMAST’2016 conference, Brussels, (2016)
- MARRS2016 Big on Small award (2016)
- Coordination of the Belgian thematic network on Microfluidics and Micromanipulation MicroMAST (2012-2017)
- Paper on acoustic levitation highlighted in Physics Today (2011)
- Best paper award in Assembly Automation for my research on capillary forces (2005)
Invitations
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- Invitation to ICRA’2020, Workshop on on the applications of micro- and nanorobotics, Paris June 2020
- Invitation to the Waseda Workshop (Tokyo) on Active Matter for Soft Robotics, 11-12 March 2019, Tokyo
- Invitation to the workshop Continuum and Soft Robots (CSR) for medical interventions: modeling, fabrication, and control, held at the IEEE IROS conference, Madrid, October 1-5 2018
- Invitation to the 41th Annual Meeting Adhesion Society, which will take place in San Diego, 26/2-2/3 2018
- Invitation to the symposium Micro-Assembly Technologies – Fundamentals to Applications Symposium during the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit (http://www.mrs.org/fall2017/) Boston, Massachusetts USA, November 26th – December 1st 2017.
- Spring School on Wetting and Capillarity, ULB, 16-20 May 2016
- Invited Speaker at MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix Arizona 28th March – 1st April 2016
- Invitation by the Dutch Acoustic Society NAG – Topical session on acoustics frontiers (2011)
- Invitation in International Conference on Robotics and Automation – Workshop in the conference, Shangai (2011)
- Invited speaker at the Summer School in Microrobotics, Besançon (2010)
- Invitation in Robotics Science and Systems – Workshop in the conference, Philadelphia (2006)