Patrick Tabeling

Patrick Tabeling is a french physicist, microfluidics pioneer in France, professor at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech). He has published more than 181 articles in prestigious peer reviewed journals and his work has been cited more than 7000 times.He is the future director of the Pierre Gilles de Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG), an interdisciplinary research institution in Paris which will regroup more than 100 expert researchers.

Graduated from the École supérieure d'électricité (1974 promotion), Patrick Tabeling was a professor and researcher at the statistical physics laboratory of the École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm (ENS Ulm) from 1985 to 2001. In 2001, he was appointed as a professor at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI ParisTech) where he is the group leader of the Microfluidics, Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanostructures laboratory. He is charged by the French National Centre for Scientific Research to coordinate the activity of research laboratories in microfluidics as a chairman of the french microfluidic networkand is a consultant scientist for Schlumberger, Rhodia, Sanofi and Unilever.

Patrick Tabeling is editor of the fluid division of Physical Review Letters and guest editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Patrick Tabeling's laboratory develops microfluidic applicationswith industrialand research laboratories of biology and analytical Chemistry of ESPCI ParisTech and is concerned with more fundamental issues such as conditions of wall slip in microfluidic systems.