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HorizonEU MSCA-DN research project | Experimental physics of the Leidenfrost Effect | Fluids, PhDs, soft matter, industry
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How do droplets move on heated, textured surfaces?

Vahid Taheri (DC#5) joins #LeidenForce to study surface microstructures & Leidenfrost temperature.
With M. Fernandino @ntnu-iss.bsky.social , @airbus.com & @univlille.bsky.social

🔗Read more: shorturl.at/bNu4x

#HeatTransfer #PhD #SmartSurfaces
Vahid Taheri, new DC at LeidenForce
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Matter for Thought - Timeless insights for Modern Physics

🖊️Quote by Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny, French physicist

📘Source: "Studies on Bodies in the Spheroidal State – A New Branch of Physics” (1857)

#Physics #Experiment #Thermodynamics #ExploreTheUnknown #STEM
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🇧🇪 #LeidenForce team spirit mixing scientific discussions, new encounters, iconic boulets-frites… and a few stolen fries ;)
📷 @marca-be.bsky.social @crokybe.bsky.social Gauri Patki, Cheikh Tidiane DIOUM @universitedeliege.bsky.social & Alexis Duchesne @fst-ulille.bsky.social
#Teamwork #BelgianStyle
Lunch in Liege with part of the LeidenForce team
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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How do droplets behave on liquid surfaces heated beyond boiling?
Arghya Mukherjee (DC#8) joins #LeidenForce to study this little-known phenomenon.
With B. Sobac @universiteuppa.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social
www.LeidenForce.eu/welcomearghyanews
#FluidPhysics #PhD
Arghya Mukherjee, new DC at LeidenForce
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The first steps of Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
@universitedeliege.bsky.social with @kafleury.bsky.social

#PhDLife #LeidenForce #Research #SpaceScience
Cheikh and Gauri at the Centre Spatial de Liège
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Welcome Gauri Patki (DC#4) to #LeidenForce!
She will study #LeidenfrostJets at @laboratoire-iemn.bsky.social @fst-ulille.bsky.social & @universitedeliege.bsky.social PtYX.
PI: @leduke21.bsky.social & @marca-be.bsky.social
+ @airbus.com secondment.
www.leidenforce.eu/welcomegaurinews
#FluidDynamics
Gauri Patki, new DC at LeidenForce
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Welcome Pablo Gil González, new DC at #LeidenForce!
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Pierre Colinet + secondments @espciparispsl.bsky.social, @ntnu-iss.bsky.social, @universitedeliege.bsky.social, @utwente.bsky.social
🔗Read more: www.leidenforce.eu/welcomepablonews
#PhD #Research #VaporFilm
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October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Welcome Mélanie Bulois DC#10 to #LeidenForce!
She’ll explore the #LeidenfrostEffect in multiphase #microfluidics, where droplets levitate & evaporate in tiny channels.
Research @ulbruxelles.bsky.social with Benoit Scheid + secondment @universiteuppa.bsky.social
🔗 www.leidenforce.eu/welcomemelan...
Picture of Mélanie Bulois, new DC in the LeidenForce project
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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👋 We are happy to welcome Cheikh Tidiane Dioum (DC#7), our new PhD student in LeidenForce!
He studies particle trapping & releasing using the #LeidenfrostEffect under @marca-be.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social
🔍Full article in comments
#PhD #fluiddynamics #particletrapping #Research
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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"But each succeeding year augments our experimental powers ; the invention of improved methods enables us to renew our methods with a greater chance of success."
👨‍🔬John Tyndall - "Heat as a Mode of Motion" (1874)

#ScientificProgress #BetterMethods #ExperimentalSetup #AdvancingScience #Physics
Black and white photograph of an old scientific laboratory
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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👋 Meet Maxim de Wildt (DC#2), our first PhD student in LeidenForce!
He studies the Leidenfrost effect under Detlef Lohse at @utwente.bsky.social, combining experiments & modeling — and will also join CRM Group in Ghent.
Full article in comments ⬇
#LeidenfrostEffect #FluidDynamics #Research #Physics
Photo of Maxim de Wildt, the first PhD student to join the LeidenForce project
September 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Great moments at #Euromech Colloquium 651 in Metz with LeidenForce!
📸 @marca-be.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social & B. Scheid @ulbruxelles.bsky.social on bubble & #droplet dynamics.
Also A.-L. Biance @cnrs.fr on triboelectricity in droplet impacts.
#microfluidics #heattransfer #PhaseChange
Speakers and organisers of Euromech and CFM2025
August 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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📷 LeidenForce is now on Instagram 📷
Follow us to explore our experiments and events through images.
➡️ instagram.com/leidenforce
Don’t miss our event coverage, including the stunning Droplets 2025 shots by Toffographie.
#LabLife #InstaScience #LabPhotography #ScienceEvent #STEM
August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎓 What a day at #PreConfSchool25 in Liège!
Thanks to the speakers, the PhD students, and everyone who made it happen 👏
This was just the beginning — setting the stage for Droplets 2025.
🫧 Until next time… Open your mind to the physics of droplets.
#Droplets #FluidDynamics #PhDLife #ScienceCommunity
July 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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And the last but not least, a lecture by Michel Henry from @uclouvain.bsky.social to close the day: numerical modeling of the Leidenfrost effect in granular media
#PreConfSchool25 #droplets #GranularPhase
Michel Henry’s lecture at ULiege
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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After a short break, a new talk by Philippe Bourrianne from @espciparispsl.bsky.social : Leidenfrost without heat. Exploring how levitation can happen at room temperature using fizzy droplets!
#Droplets #FluidDynamics #Substrate #PreConfSchool25 @universitedeliege.bsky.social
Philippe Bourrianne's lecture at the Pre-conference school 2025
June 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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We continue with a talk by Benjamin Sobac from
@cnrs.fr: #Leidenfrost drops: Modeling shape & levitation from puddles to spheres.
The talk covers theoretical modeling of axisymmetric Leidenfrost drops across many sizes.
#Droplets #Multiscale #PreConfSchool25
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Benjamin Sobac's lecture at ULiège
June 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Afternoon session kicks off at #PreConfSchool25 with Anne-Laure Biance from @cnrs.fr on #Leidenfrost drops and #bubbles:
🔹Key experiments on Leidenfrost droplet physics
🔹Bubble formation
🔹Tuning the effect via external actuation
#FluidDynamics #PhysicsTalk @universitedeliege.bsky.social
Photo of Anne Laure Biance's conference at ULiège
June 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Lunch break… but science doesn’t stop!
Our PhD students are taking part in a hands-on workshop led by Stéphane Dorbolo @marca-be.bsky.social, experimenting with the fascinating Leidenfrost effect.
#PreConfSchool25 @universitedeliege.bsky.social
#Leidenfrost #PhDLife #Thermodynamics #PhysicsInAction
Leidenfrost experiment with Stéphane Dorbolo and PhD students at ULiège
June 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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David Paulovics’ lecture: droplet condensation and phase change.
#PreConfSchool25 @universitedeliege.bsky.social
#Science #physics #Droplets
David Paulovics’ lecture
June 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Introduction by Alexis Duchesne @leduke21.bsky.social , then a keynote by David Quéré on Wetting and more, exploring the physics of droplets in air and on solids — from contact lines to non-wetting regimes like the #LeidenfrostEffect
#PreConfSchool25
#ScientificTalk #PhysicsEvent #FluidMechanics
Lecture: David Quere and Alexis Duchesne at the Pre-Conference School 2025
June 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Tadd Truscott’s lecture: sliding droplet and guitare
#PreConfSchool25
Tadd Truscott’s lecture
June 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The Pre-conference school is officially underway! 🎓
Thank you to @marca-be.bsky.social for the inspiring opening speech.
Looking forward to a day full of learning and great exchanges!
#PreConfSchool25 @universitedeliege.bsky.social #droplets #PhD #Event #Physics
Photo of the amphitheatre for the pre-conference school opening speech
June 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🚧 Something’s brewing in the corridors.
It wasn’t on the schedule. And you might just be called to take part…
Can you guess what’s in store?
Pre-Conference School 2025, the day for PhD students ahead of Droplets 2025.
#PreConfSchool25 @universitedeliege.bsky.social
#Teasing #Event #SmartIsCool #PhD
Rolling laboratory in the corridors
June 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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📦 4 days to go. Things are gearing up at @universitedeliege.bsky.social !
Get ready to push back the frontiers of the #PhysicsOfDroplets
We’re getting our hands dirty — to bring you an extraordinary experience.
👉 Just a little more patience. It’s on its way.
#PreConfSchool25 #Event #LeidenForce #PhD
Picture of the material to prepare the pre-conference school at ULiege, a LeidenForce event.
June 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM