IPGG

The Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (IPGG) is a unique interdisciplinary ecosystem within PSL, combining cutting-edge research, technological innovation, education, and industrial partnerships through the Carnot IPGG. The IPGG program is expanding beyond its founding institutions (ESPCI, ENS, ChimieParistech) to include new teams, notably from Mines Paris and the Collège de France, further strengthening the synergy and breadth of expertise within PSL.

The program aims to tackle major scientific and societal challenges through innovation in microfluidics and nanofluidics. It is structured around three strategic pillars :

– Ecological and energy transition : developing technologies with negative CO₂ emissions and innovations for sustainable energy.
– Biology and health : exploring microfluidic technologies to control biological functions, model living systems, and develop alternatives to animal testing.
– Flow chemistry and recycling : advancing new approaches in chemistry and materials recovery to address environmental challenges.

Lead researchers

– Annie Colin - Professor at ESPCI Paris - PSL
– Stéphanie Descroix - Research Director at Institut Curie
– Jacques Fattaccioli - Lecturer at ENS

Laboratories involved

Chimie ParisTech - PSL

– Chimie Organométallique et Catalyse de Polymérisation, IRCP
– Processes, Plasmas and Microsystems, IRCP
– Synthesis, Electrochemistry, Imaging and Analytical Systems for Diagnostics, i-CLeHS

Collège de France

– Cell Cycle and Chromosome Dynamics, CIRB
– Methods and application in organic chemistry, LAM

École Normale Supérieure - PSL

– Algae and plants genomics, IBENS
– Bacterial Infection, Response & Dynamics, IBENS
– Catalysis : Methods and Mechanisms, CPCV
– Emulsions biologiques et microfluidiques, LPENS
– Micromegas, LPENS
– Multiscale Physics of Living Systems, LPENS
– SOFT, CPCV
– Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris, ESPCI/ENS, IMAP
– MesoBioLab, CPCV

ESPCI Paris - PSL

– Biological Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, SMBP
– Chimie Moléculaire, Macromoléculaire, Matériaux, C3M
– Complex Suspensions, PMMH
– Cytomorpholab, CBI
– Interfacial dynamics of soft condensed matter, Gulliver
– Institut des Matériaux Poreux de Paris, ESPCI/ENS, IMAP
– Laboratory Biophysics and Evolution, CBI
– Laboratory of Analytical and Bioanalytical Sciences and Miniaturization, CBI
– Laboratoire Colloïdes et Matériaux Divisés, CBI
– Laboratoire de Biochimie, CBI
– Matériaux innovants pour l’énergie, CBI
– Molecular Programs and Systems, CBI
– Soft Matter Science and Engineering, SIMM

Institut Curie

– Biology-inspired Physics at MesoScales, PCC
– Dynamic Control of Signaling and Gene Expression, PCC
– Microsystems and Macromolecules for Biology and Medicine, PCC
– Systems Cell Biology of Cell Division and Cell Polarity, CBC
– Quantitative Developmental Biology, PCC

Mines Paris - PSL

– Center of Geosciences
– Centre de matériaux des Mines, Mines/ESPCI