Organisation/Company CNRS Department Matière et Systèmes Complexes Research Field Physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Country France Application Deadline 10 Dec 2025 - 23:59 (UTC) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Jan 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? NoOffer DescriptionThe student intern will work on the experiments part within the MSC laboratory, both on living and synthetic systems with Dražen Zanchi and with Julien Derr at Lab. Rep. Dev. Plantes, ENS, Lyon. The thesis is supervised by D. Zanchi and J. Derr on equal level, and the work is scheduled equally between Paris (MSC, UMR 7057) and Lyon (RDP, UMR 5667).Our research includes, on the one hand, the biomechanics of organisms and filiform supramolecular structures with high sensitivity to environmental stimuli and, on the other hand, studies of bio-inspired artificial systems as well as combined devices between the living and the artificial. This project within is based on a new phenomenon recently published by our group [Dilly, 2023]. It is a “soft engine”, based on the inversion of a helix. In our research, we are (bio)inspired by climbing plants, by the flagella of microalgae, filamentous algae, or even by functional supramolecular structures like amyloid fibers. Then, we propose bionic devices, hybrids between living and artificial.
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