Biophysics of whole-cell luminescent biosensor's response & Applications to contaminants toxicity evaluation, metal bioavailability quantification, virus detection, and water quality assessment
Biophysical chemistry of cell adhesion to biotic/abiotic surfaces, homotypic/heterotypic cell interactions
Thermodynamics & kinetics of metal complexation by ionic/molecular ligands, nano-sized particles and colloids
Dynamics of reactive transfer of contaminants (metals and organics) to accumulating biointerfaces, dynamics of contaminants bioaccumulation and speciation, (bioavai)lability of contaminants
Chemical physics of contaminants adsorption and accumulation by colloidal vectors, e.g. micro/nanoplastics
Biophysics of contaminants-(micro)organisms-colloids interactions at the molecular, cellular and mesoscopic scales
Applications of atomic force micro/spectro-scopies (AFM, SMFS), fluorescence micro/spectro-scopies (CLSM, FLIM) and non-linear optic processes (SHG) in nanotoxicology and biogeosciences
Electrohydrodynamics (electrokinetics) of soft surfaces, soft (bio)colloids and polymer films : fundamentals and applications
Electrophoresis of nano- and micro-organisms (bacteria, yeasts, viruses)
Computational flow dynamics in microfluidics and nanofluidics & Applications