Dr. Niki Baccile

• Full-time CNRS researcher
• Sorbonne Université

Niki BACCILE is a physicochemist working in the field of Soft Matter. He obtained a PhD in Materials’ Chemistry in 2006 at the Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), Paris (France) and worked as a post-doc at the Institut Charles Gerhardt in Montpellier (France) in 2007 and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm (Germany), in 2008. Since 2008, he is full-time CNRS research fellow at the LCMCP, Sorbonne Université, Paris. He currently explores the self-organization of microbial biosurfactants (sophorolipids, glucolipids, cellobioselipids) and their potential use in materials’ science.