During her PhD, Suzanne Lafon studied the dynamics of liquids near solid surfaces. She used molecular dynamics to probe the friction Lennard-Jones fluids on a model wall as the liquid becomes supercooled. She also studied the slip and friction of polymer solutions on ideal substrate combining rheology, photobleaching techniques and neutron reflectivity. In particular, I am focusing on the dynamics of polymer chains near the wall as the chains are cooled down near their glass transition temperature.
She has been awarded by the prestigious PhD prize of the Graduate School of Physics of the Université Paris-Saclay.
Her PhD was supervised by Alexis Chennevière (LLB-CEA) and Frédéric Restagno.