Ludovic Keiser

Welcome to my personal research page. I am Ludovic Keiser, a CNRS researcher working at Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI), Université Côte d’Azur (UniCA), Nice, France.

Online research profiles: Google Scholar, ORCID: 0000-0002-1681-9606, ResearchGate.

Research Interests

• Plant hydraulics
• Nonlinear flows in microfluidics
• Interfacial hydrodynamics

Latest News

• September 4, 2025: I am pleased to announce that my proposal EMBIOMO has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council for the period 2026–2030. We will develop experimental and theoretical models to gain deeper insights into the dynamics of embolism in plant leaves

• We are organizing the fourth edition of the international conference “Fluids and Complexity”, in December 3-5, 2025 in Nice, together with Baptiste Blanc (Univ. Côte d’Azur), Rudy Valette and Romain Castellani (Mines Paris PSL). Find more details on the website, abstract submissions are still open.

• Together with Céline Cohen and Philippe Thomen, we have organized the plenary days of the GDR Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. This 2-day conference was held in Nice (Hôtel Le Saint-Paul) on November 18-19, 2024. We had 100 participants, from more than 20 labs in France, see the conference website!

Recent Publications

1. Nonlinear dynamics of air invasion in one-dimensional compliant fluid networks, Physical Review E, 113 (2026): 015103, doi, pdf
2. Bubble removal in microfluidic channels surrounded by gas-permeable media: experiments and a predictive model., Lab on a Chip, 25(2025): 5030-5042, doi, pdf
3. Channel deformations during elastocapillary spreading of gaseous embolisms in biomimetic leaves, Interface Focus, 15,2 (2025) 20240060, doi, pdf
4. Releasing long bubbles trapped in thin capillaries via tube centrifugation and inclination, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 999 (2024): A9, doi, pdf

Contact

You can reach me at: ludovic.keiser[at]univ-cotedazur.fr