IPGG

The Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – IPGG – is a community of researchers working on micro- and nanofluidics and its applications.

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes used to say that the frontiers between scientific disciplines had to be broken down to make them more fruitful and exploit their full potential. This is the spirit in which the IPGG was created: to bring together complementary expertise (physicists, biologists, chemists, technologists) around a cross-disciplinary theme (microfluidics) to develop fundamental research and hatch applications in health, energy, agri-food, cosmetics, instrumentation, etc.

As a double winner of the 2010 Investissements d’Avenir (Équipex and Labex PSL) and renewed in 2019, Labex IPGG is one of the major research programmes of PSL University, reflecting the dynamic process of building PSL around a research activity of excellence.

This pooling of knowledge and expertise has made the IPGG one of the world leaders in the field of microfluidics, with a number of prestigious partnerships in both the academic and business worlds. The institute brings together 20 research teams attached to the Institut Curie, Chimie ParisTech, the Ecole Normale Supérieure and ESPCI Paris, all 4 members of PSL, the Université Paris Sciences & Lettres.