Wiebke Drenckhan


Wiebke Drenckhan, born in Bad Belzig is a German physicist who specializes in the study of liquid and solid foams and emulsions. She has also provided illustrations for several popular science books.

Biography

After studying physics and mathematical physics in Germany, she defended a thesis entitled "Stability and motion of foams and films in confined geometries" at Trinity College in Dublin in 2004. She then did postdoctoral research at Paris Diderot University in Paris, France.
In 2007, she joined the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides at the University of Paris-Sud. In 2014, she obtained her Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches at the University of Paris-Sud on the topic of “A science of transition - from liquid to solid foams”.
Since 2016, she is a CNRS researcher at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg, France.

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