Guillaume Durey
science educator • soft matter physicist • YouTuber • engineer
Hello and welcome to my website!
I'm currently a science educator at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, in Geneva, Switzerland. I manage the CERN-Solvay Education Programme, the digital education offer of Science Gateway, CERN's new flagship science centre. I produce an online interactive physics course on YouTube and a series of physics education videos for social media. I am also responsible for the international high-school student camps on CERN's campus. Find out more about my education work here!
Before that, I was a researcher in experimental soft matter physics and fluid dynamics, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology and engineering. As a postdoc at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, I worked on the rheology of active fluids and light-driven diffusiophoresis.
I received a Ph.D. in physics from PSL University in Paris, France. My research focused on the topology of chiral liquid crystals in spherical confinement, at the intersection between microfluidics and microscopy. I also hold a "diplôme d'ingénieur" from ESPCI in Paris, a graduate engineering school delivering advanced interdisciplinary education in physics, chemistry and biology. Find out more about my research here!
Throughout my career and education, I've always had a passion for science outreach conducted in creative ways. I created The Lutetium Project, a YouTube channel showcasing experimental research in soft matter physics with an artistic spin. It gathered over 20 000 French- and English-speaking subscribers and 900 000 views. Two of my videos were prized by the American Physical Society. Find out more about my outreach work here!
Don't hesitate to reach out to me at guillaume.durey[at]cern.ch 🙂