CV

Education

• Bachelor and Master degrees at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France. Master program Macroscopic Physics and Complexity.
• Ph.D. in theoretical physics supervised by Bertrand Delamotte, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (LPTMC), Université Paris VI (UPMC), Paris, France.

Research experience

• Feb. - Jul. 2012: Research internship
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA.
  • Supervisor: Michael Chertkov
• Feb. - Jun. 2013: Research internship
  • Laboratoire de Physique Statistique (LPS), Paris, France.
  • Supervisor: Vincent Hakim
• Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2021: Postdoc
  • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), Dresden, Germany.
  • Advisor: Frank Jülicher
• Dec. 2021 - Aug. 2022: Postdoc
  • Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Paris, France.
  • Advisor: Julien Tailleur
• Since Sep. 2022: Associate professor
  • Sorbonne Université and Physico-Chimie Curie laboratory, Paris, France.

Teaching experience

• 2014-2017: Teaching assistant
  • Université Paris VI (UPMC), Paris, France.
  • Tutorials and laboratory courses in thermodynamics and mechanics (undergrad students).
• Winter semester 2019: Teaching assistant
  • Technische Universität Dresden (TU-Dresden), Dresden, Germany.
  • Tutorials for the course Stochastic Modelling and Simulation (master students).
• Since Sep. 2022: Associate professor
  • Sorbonne Université and Physico-Chimie Curie laboratory, Paris, France.

Publications

Hysteresis, phase transitions, and dangerous transients in electrical power distribution systems

"Hysteresis, phase transitions, and dangerous transients in electrical power distribution systems", C. Duclut, S. Backhaus, and M. Chertkov, Phys. Rev. E 87, 62802 (2013).

Langevin Equations for Reaction-Diffusion Processes

"Langevin Equations for Reaction-Diffusion Processes", F. Benitez, C. Duclut, H. Chaté, B. Delamotte, I. Dornic, and M. A. Muñoz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 100601 (2016).

Frequency regulators for the nonperturbative renormalization group: A general study and the model A as a benchmark

"Frequency regulators for the nonperturbative renormalization group: A general study and the model A as a benchmark", C. Duclut, and B. Delamotte, Phys. Rev. E 95, 12107 (2017).

Nonuniversality in the erosion of tilted landscapes

"Nonuniversality in the erosion of tilted landscapes", C. Duclut, and B. Delamotte, Phys. Rev. E 96, 12149 (2017).

Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies

"Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies", C. Duclut, N. Sarkar, J. Prost, and F. Jülicher, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 19264 (2019).

Nonequilibrium polarity-induced chemotaxis: Emergent Galilean symmetry and exact scaling exponents

"Nonequilibrium polarity-induced chemotaxis: Emergent Galilean symmetry and exact scaling exponents", S. Mahdisoltani, R. Ben Alì Zinati, C. Duclut, A. Gambassi, and R. Golestanian, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 13100 (2021).

Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids

"Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids", C. Duclut, J. Prost, and F. Jülicher, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118, e2021972118 (2021).

Nonlinear rheology of cellular networks

"Nonlinear rheology of cellular networks", C. Duclut, J. Paijmans, M. M. Inamdar, C. D. Modes, and F. Jülicher, Cells & Development 168, 203746 (2021).

Coarse-grained curvature tensor on polygonal surfaces

"Coarse-grained curvature tensor on polygonal surfaces", C. Duclut, A. Amiri, J. Paijmans, and F. Jülicher, SciPost Phys. Core 5, 11 (2022).

Passive odd viscoelasticity

"Passive odd viscoelasticity", R. Lier, J. Armas, S. Bo, C. Duclut, F. Jülicher, P. Surówka, Phys. Rev. E 105, 54607 (2022).

Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth

"Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth", R. Ben Alì Zinati, C. Duclut, S. Mahdisoltani, A. Gambassi, and R. Golestanian, EPL 136, 50003 (2022).

Active T1 transitions in cellular networks

"Active T1 transitions in cellular networks", C. Duclut, J. Paijmans, M. M. Inamdar, C. D. Modes, and F. Jülicher, Eur. Phys. J. E 45, 29 (2022).

Lift force in odd compressible fluids

"Lift force in odd compressible fluids", R. Lier, C. Duclut, S. Bo, J. Armas, F. Jülicher, P. Surówka, Phys. Rev. E 108, L023101 (2023).

Auxiliary fields approach to shift-symmetric theories: the φ^4 derivative theory and the crumpled-to-flat transition of membranes at two-loop order

"Auxiliary fields approach to shift-symmetric theories: the φ^4 derivative theory and the crumpled-to-flat transition of membranes at two-loop order", L. Delzescaux, C. Duclut, D. Mouhanna, and M. Tissier, Phys. Rev. D 108, L081702 (2023).

Random traction yielding transition in epithelial tissues

"Random traction yielding transition in epithelial tissues", A. Amiri, C. Duclut, F. Jülicher, M. Popović, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 188401 (2023).

Core PCP mutations affect short time mechanical properties but not tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila pupal wing

"Core PCP mutations affect short time mechanical properties but not tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila pupal wing", R. Piscitello-Gómez, F. S. Gruber, A. Krishna, C. Duclut, C. D. Modes, M. Popović, F. Jülicher, N. A. Dye, S. Eaton, eLife 12, e85581 (2023).

Nematic Torques in Scalar Active Matter: When Fluctuations Favor Polar Order and Persistence

"Nematic Torques in Scalar Active Matter: When Fluctuations Favor Polar Order and Persistence", G. Spera, C. Duclut, M. Durand, J. Tailleur, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078301 (2024).

Probe particles in odd active viscoelastic fluids: How activity and dissipation determine linear stability

"Probe particles in odd active viscoelastic fluids: How activity and dissipation determine linear stability", C. Duclut, S. Bo, R. Lier, J. Armas, F. Jülicher, P. Surówka, Phys. Rev. E 109, 044126 (2024).

Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres

"Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres", T. H. Tan, A. Amiri, I. Seijo-Barandiarán, M. F. Staddon, A. Materne, S. Tomas, C. Duclut, M. Popović, A. Grapin-Botton, F. Jülicher, PRX Life 2, 033006 (2024).

Active shape programming drives Drosophila wing disc eversion

"Active shape programming drives Drosophila wing disc eversion ", J. F. Fuhrmann, A. Krishna, J. Paijmans, C. Duclut, G. Cwikla, S. Eaton, M. Popović, F. Jülicher, C. D. Modes, N. A. Dye, Sci. Adv. 10, 32 (2024).

Fluctuation-Induced First Order Transition to Collective Motion

"Fluctuation-Induced First Order Transition to Collective Motion", D. Martin, G. Spera, H. Chaté, C. Duclut, C. Nardini, J. Tailleur, F. van Wijland , arXiv:2402.05078 (2024).

Oral presentations

Invited talks

• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  International Workshop in Mechanobiology, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China,
  August 10th, 2024.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  Multiscale integration in Biological Systems, Institut Curie, Paris, France,
  November 10th, 2023.
• "Fluid pumping and flexoelectricity can drive lumen nucleation in cell spheroids'',
  LaBex "Who am I?" 2022 annual meeting, ENSA, Paris, France,
  December 12th, 2022.
• "Dynamical phase transition in assemblies of chemotactic cells'',
  DPG Spring Meeting, Focus Session on Stochastic processes in biology, Regensburg Universität, Regensburg, Germany,
  April 4th, 2019.

Contributed talks

• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  Collective Motions of Animals and Robots, Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica,
  May 28th, 2024.
• "From active matter to cell tissues'',
  LabEx Cell(n)Scale closing meeting, Center Parcs, Le Lac d’Ailette, France,
  May 24th, 2024.
• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  Chemotaxis - from Basic Physics to Biology , Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  May 15th, 2024.
• "Hydraulic and electric properties of tissues'',
  Physics meets Biology, Rice Global Paris Center, Paris, France,
  October 24th, 2023.
• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  Sitges conference on Statistical Mechanics, Hotel Calipolis, Sitges, Spain,
  May 29th, 2023.
• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  Journées de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France,
  January 26th, 2023.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of a cell spheroid'',
  New frontiers in liquid matter, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France,
  July 7th, 2022.
• "Nonlinear rheology of cellular networks'',
  Physical Biology Circle Meeting, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  September 15th, 2021.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  Virtual DPG Spring Meeting, online conference,
  March 23rd, 2021.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  Virtual APS March Meeting, online conference,
  March 16th, 2021.
• "Fluid pumping can drive lumen nucleation and thickness oscillations in a cell spheroid'',
  Circle Meeting, Saarland Universität, Saarbrücken, Germany,
  March 27th, 2019.
• "Frequency regulators for the nonperturbative renormalization group in nonequilibrium systems'',
  Exact Renormalization Group (ERG2018), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France,
  July 10th, 2018.
• "Langevin equations for reaction-diffusion processes'',
  DPG Spring Meeting, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany,
  March 12th, 2018.
• "Genuine (response-field) Langevin equations for reaction-diffusion processes '',
  Journées de Physique Statistique, ESPCI, Paris, France,
  January 28th, 2016.

Seminars

• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  QBio/FRESK Seminar, QBio, PariSanté Campus, Paris,
  June 24th, 2024.
• "Hydraulic properties of MDCK cell spheroids'',
  Tissue Mechanics Group Meetings, Laboratoire Génétique et Biologie du Développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France,
  May 3rd, 2024.
• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  Laboratoire de Physique , École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France,
  March 1st, 2024.
• "Renormalization group approach to the collective dynamics of chemotactic cells'',
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France ,
  October 10th, 2022.
• "Active mechanical and electrohydraulic properties of tissues'',
  Laboratoire Jean Perrin , Sorbonne Université, Paris, France ,
  February 22nd, 2022.
• "Active mechanical and electrohydraulic properties of tissues'',
  Laboratoire Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, ESPCI, Paris, France,
  February 16th, 2022.
• "Active mechanical and electrohydraulic properties of tissues'',
  Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Curie, Institut Curie, Paris, France,
  January 28th, 2022.
• "Active mechanical and electrohydraulic properties of tissues'',
  Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France,
  December 13th, 2021.
• "Fluid pumping, lumen nucleation and electro-hydraulic phenomena in cell assemblies'',
  Laboratoire Jean Perrin (online seminar), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France ,
  November 10th, 2020.
• "Fluid pumping, lumen nucleation and electro-hydraulic phenomena in cell assemblies'',
  Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique (online seminar), Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France,
  November 2nd, 2020.
• "Polarization mechanism for chemotaxis and exact scaling exponent in assemblies of cells'',
  Centre de Physique Théorique (online seminar), Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France,
  October 14th, 2020.
• "Quorum effects in assemblies of chemotactic cells'',
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (online seminar), Université Paris-Orsay, Orsay, France,
  March 31st, 2020.
• "Collective dynamics of chemotactic cells'',
  Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France,
  January 15th, 2020.
• "Collective dynamics of chemotactic cells'',
  Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France,
  January 9th, 2020.
• "Collective dynamics of chemotactic cells'',
  Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France,
  January 7th, 2020.
• "Nonequilibrium critical phenomena: exact Langevin equations, erosion of tilted landscapes'',
  Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  March 30th, 2017.

Posters

• "Stochastic dynamics of chemotactic colonies with logistic growth'',
  New Perspectives in Active Systems, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  April 25th, 2023.
• "Electrohydraulics of cells and tissues'',
  Engineering Life – Active Matter Across Scales, Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe Dresden, Germany,
  June 28th, 2022.
• "Electrohydraulics of cells and tissues'',
  Institute Scientific Evaluation, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  April 5th, 2022.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  Physics Meets Biology, online conference,
  July 26th, 2021.
• "Hydraulic and electric control of cell spheroids'',
  EMBO Workshop Physics of living systems: From molecules to tissues, online conference,
  June 7th, 2021.
• "Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies'',
  Organoids : Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture, online conference,
  October 21st, 2020.
• "Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies'',
  Fluid Physics of Life, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany,
  October 21st, 2019.
• "Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies'',
  Mechanical Forces in Development, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany,
  July 3rd, 2019.
• "Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies'',
  Key Challenges in Statistical Physics (MECO 44), Kloster Seeon, Munich, Germany,
  May 1st, 2019.
• "Fluid pumping and active flexoelectricity can promote lumen nucleation in cell assemblies'',
  Les Houches summer school, Les Houches, France,
  August 1st, 2018.
• "Langevin equations for reaction-diffusion processes'',
  42nd Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France,
  February 9th, 2017.
• "Langevin equations for reaction-diffusion processes'',
  Beg Rohu summer school, Beg Rohu, France,
  August 1st, 2016.
• "Hysteresis, phase transitions and dangerous transients in power distribution systems'',
  Optimization and Control of Smart Grids, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA,
  May 21st, 2012.