Wiebke Drenckhan

After studying physics and mathematical physics in Germany, she defended a thesis entitled "Stability and motion of foams and films in confined geometries" at Trinity College in Dublin in 2004.[2] She then did postdoctoral research at Paris Diderot University in Paris, France. In 2007, she joined the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides at the University of Paris-Sud. In 2014, she obtained her Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches at the University of Paris-Sud on the topic of “A science of transition - from liquid to solid foams”. Since 2016, she is a CNRS researcher at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg, France.[3]

• In 2013, she received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for women in science and technology for her experimental work and simulations of foams.[4]
• In 2015, she received the CNRS Bronze Medal.[1]

• Stocco, Antonio, et al. "Particle-stabilised foams: an interfacial study." Soft Matter 5.11 (2009): 2215–2222.
• Weaire, Denis, et al. "The fluid dynamics of foams." Journal of physics: condensed matter 15.1 (2002): S65.
• Drenckhan, Wiebke, and Dominique Langevin. "Monodisperse foams in one to three dimensions." Current opinion in colloid & interface science 15.5 (2010): 341–358.
• van der Net, Antje, et al. "Crystalline arrangements of microbubbles in monodisperse foams." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 309.1 (2007): 117–124.
• Arriaga, Laura R., et al. "On the long-term stability of foams stabilised by mixtures of nano-particles and oppositely charged short chain surfactants." Soft Matter 8.43 (2012): 11085–11097.

• Wiebke Drenckhan - Portrait de Femmes en Physique (in French)