Ludwik Leibler

Who is Ludwik Leibler?

Ludwick Leibler, is a French physicist. He is Professor at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, Research Director at CNRS and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Ludwik Leibler received his PhD in 1976 in Theoretical Physics from Warsaw University, and then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Collège de France in Paris under the direction of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. He is a researcher in Centre National de Recherche Scientifique which he joined in Strasbourg then in Paris where he worked on theoretical and experimental aspects of polymer self-assembly and dynamics, interfaces, gels and charged polymers. From 1996 to 2003 he was the founding director of a joint laboratory between CNRS and chemical company Elf Atochem which regrouped researchers from academia and industry.