Thalmann, Fabrice

Professor UniStra
Tel: +(33)(0)388414097
Office: F147
email: fabrice.thalmann[at]ics-cnrs.unistra.fr

Research activities

Since I joined the Institut Charles Sadron (ICS) in 2005, my attention has been mainly devoted to the theory and the simulation of soft matter systems: polymers, colloids, self-assembled amphiphiles and lipid membranes. I am since 2020 the head of the Physics of Membranes and Soft Matter (M³) team at the ICS.

I like to combine theoretical modelling with molecular dynamics simulations to address fundamental issues in the physical chemistry of the systems of interest: lipid configuration analysis by machine learning, determination of complex structural and thermodynamic features of lipid mixtures, understanding rheological properties of lipid coatings or drying colloidal suspensions. I equally contribute to the phenomenological interpretations of many experimental results that are obtained by the M3 experimentalists.

• Soft Condensed Matter theory
• Statistical Physics and Computer Simulations
• Rheology and Thermodynamics of Lipid bilayers
• Drying and Wetting
• Lipid oxidation

Publications

Web resources

• Google Scholar profile
• Publons/Web of Science
• Orcid profile
• Hal (idHal fabrice-thalmann)

Recent selected papers

• Internal lipid bilayer friction coefficient from equilibrium canonical simulations O Benazieb, L Berezovska, F Thalmann J. Phys. Commun. 7 011001 (2023)
• Excimer formation of pyrene labeled lipids interpreted by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations P Ayoub, F Thalmann arXiv (2022)
• Stress overshoot, hysteresis and Bauschinger effect in sheared dense colloidal suspensions D Kushnir, C Ruscher, E Bartsch, F Thalmann, P Hébraud, arXiv (2022)OpenAccess
• Rheology of sliding leaflets in coarse-grained DSPC lipid bilayers O. Benazieb, C. Loison, F. Thalmann, Phys.Rev.E (2021) OpenAccess
• Accumulation of styrene oligomers alters lipid membrane phase order and miscibility M. I. Morandi, M. Kluzek, J. Wolff ; A. Schroder, F. Thalmann, C. M. Marques,P.N.A.S. (2021) OpenAccess
• A machine learning study of the two states model for lipid bilayer phase transitions V. Walter, C. Ruscher, 0. Benzerara, C.M. Marques, F. Thalmann, P.C.C.P. (2020) OpenAccess
• Fluid bilayer phase in aqueous mixtures of fatty alcohol and cationic surfactant T. Espinosa de Oliveira, F. Leonforte, L. Nicolas-Morgantini, A.L. Fameau, B. Querleux, F. Thalmann, C.M. Marques, Phys.Rev.Research (2020)
• Simulation of Vertical Surfactant Distributions in Drying Latex Films A. Gromer, F. Thalmann, P. Hébraud, and Y. Holl,Langmuir (2017) OpenAccess

Teaching Activity

• Deputy Director in charge of Physics, Faculty of Physics and Engineering, UniStra

Other responsabilities

• President of the Section Alsace de la Société Française de Physique (SFP)