Research at the frontier between Nanophotonics
and Biomicroscopy

Welcome to the website of Guillaume Baffou, CNRS researcher at the Institut Fresnel, Aix Marseille University, Marseille (France).

We study light-actuated phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology at the nano/micro scale, in the context of nanophotonics and cell biology applications.

Our main approaches consist in using and developing original, advanced optical microscopy tools, and benefiting from the ability of gold nanoparticles to behave as effective nanosources of light or heat, when illuminated at their plasmonic resonance wavelength.

An important part of our activity also relies on more fundamental research, purely theoretical or based on numerical simulations, regarding concepts in nano-optics, nanoplasmonics and more generally on small-scale physics.

The Fresnel Institute
Marseille (France)

13 teams

... gathering 190 people including 40 postdocs and 50 PhD students, working in nanophotonics, electromagnetism, bioimaging, biomedical imaging, signal processing, thin films, laser damage and more.

The Mosaic team

... is a network of 11 permanent researchers of the institut Fresnel I belong to. We are all supervising around 40 postdocs and PhD students, working in close collaboration at the interface between optical microscopy and biology.

Facilities

16 optical setups
1 chemlab
1 biolab (L2) for cell culture
1 biolab for molecular biology
1 biolab for drosophilia culture
1 clean room for thin layer deposition
1 scanning electron microscope (SEM) + focused ion beam system (FIB)

Join us

... if you enjoy multidisciplinary research

The group is continuously seeking talented PhD students, postdocs and research engineers, willing to work in a dynamic team, and eager to learn and advance research at the frontier between different scientific fields, such as experimental optics, plasmonics, cell biology, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, chemistry, etc, where the common features are micro/nanoscale science and optical microscopy.

We encourage spontaneous applications. Please send your application to , including CV and motivation letter.

Image gallery

Fluorescence image of mice neurons in culture.

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