Jacques Fattaccioli

Scientist at Sorbonne U. I build microfluidic tools to understand biology.

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From scaling laws to single-cell assays — gain the fluency to design, troubleshoot, and innovate with microfluidic systems.

Associate Professor | Microfluidics

Microfluidics is behind the COVID test, genome sequencers, and single-cell assays reshaping biology — but also fuel cells, battery electrolytes, and microreactors driving the next generation of energy technologies. Yet for most researchers and engineers, it remains a black box. This course removes that barrier: in four sessions, you will build the physical intuition and practical knowledge to design, understand, and use microfluidic systems in your own work.

Microfluidics taught from the lab, not from a textbook

Think in scaling laws

Design microfluidic networks

Understand microfabrication

Control droplets

Move from bulk to single-cell

Work independently in the field

PhD students and postdocs entering the field with no prior microfluidics experience

R&amp;D engineers designing or evaluating lab-on-chip systems for industrial applications

Life scientists looking to understand and adopt microfluidic tools in their research

Microfluidics & Lab-on-a-Chip: What Changes at Small Scales

Microfluidics scholar & founder

Microfluidic designer for biological questions

Microfluidics is learnable in a day — if taught by someone who builds it.

Most researchers encounter microfluidics the hard way: a paper references a chip, a collaborator hands over a protocol, and suddenly you're troubleshooting bonding failures or droplet instability with no clear framework to reason from.This workshop exists to short-circuit that process.In one intensive day, you'll build the physical intuition, fabrication literacy, and experimental vocabulary that usually takes months of lab trial-and-error to acquire. The content is drawn directly from active research — droplet microfluidics, single-cell encapsulation, biomimetic devices — taught by someone who designs, fabricates, and publishes with these tools every week.Whether you're a PhD student starting a microfluidics project, a postdoc expanding your toolkit, or an R&amp;D engineer evaluating lab-on-a-chip solutions, you'll leave with a coherent mental model of how microfluidic systems work, why they fail, and how to design them with intent.No prior microfabrication experience required. Curiosity and a concrete research or engineering challenge are enough.

Build the physical intuition and hands-on fluency to design and troubleshoot microfluidic systems — from first principles to working device.

Master microscale physics

Choose and execute the right fabrication route

Design and control droplet generation

Implement on-chip detection 

Read and adapt microfluidic literature critically 

Troubleshoot systematically

Participants need basic physics and chemistry literacy to engage with quantitative reasoning — no fabrication experience required.

Basic fluid mechanics and chemistry literacy

PhD student or postdoc launching a microfluidics project, needing a fast, rigorous entry point to avoid months of costly trial and error.

R&amp;D engineer evaluating lab-on-a-chip solutions for diagnostics or screening, who needs real fluency before committing to a platform.

Life scientist adding microfluidics to an existing toolkit to scale down assays or reach single-cell resolution.

Jacques Fattaccioli will make you think like a microfluidics engineer