Guillaume Baffou

Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université
Faculté des sciences de St Jérôme
Marseille, France

Guillaume Baffou is a CNRS researcher currently affiliated with the Institut Fresnel in Marseille, France. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan, now ENS Paris-Saclay) and obtained his master's degree in solid-state physics from Université Paris XI in 2004. Following his master's, he completed a Ph.D. in Nanoscience at Université Paris XI in 2007. After his Ph.D., Guillaume pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at ICFO in Castelldefels, Barcelona (Spain), where he focused on plasmonics and associated photothermal effects under the supervision of Prof. Romain Quidant. In 2010, he joined the Institut Fresnel as a CNRS researcher in the Mosaic group. In 2023-2024, he spent a year at Columbia University in New York City on a Fulbright grant, in the team of Prof. Rafael Yuste.

Guillaume Baffou received the Bronze Medal of the CNRS in 2015 and secured an ERC Consolidator grant in 2018 for his research at the interface between optics, thermodynamics and biology at small scales.