Louis Cortes
Ithaca, New York State.
Postdoctoral experience in Biophysics
Louis is a postdoctoral associate in the Lambert lab, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University. He is currently researching on the role of metabolism and environmental fluctuations on antimicrobial resistance.
Christ Church College, Oxford.
Doctor in physical and theoretical chemistry
Louis obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford. Member of the Oxford Colloid Group, he studied the behavior, dynamics and confinement of colloidal liquid crystals (learn more about the research).
DiStruc people in Bordeaux meeting
A European program of excellence
Louis' project is embedded in the Innovative Training Network called DiStruc. This last, counts 15 PhD students hosted by 9 academic and industrial organisations. Interactions between students and researchers are promoted by regular progress meetings, workshops and secondments. (read more)
Louis giving a master at Jülich Forschungszentrum
Dissemination
Louis shared his work and experience in different ways. He traveled across Europe to give 9 talks, defend 3 posters and participate to 3 outreach events. He also published a first author paper, taught physics tutorials to Oxford undergraduates and gave a master class about diffusion.
Colloidal liquid crystals confined into a square
Expertise
Louis got familiar with many soft matter topics through group presentations, seminars, workshops and conferences. But his expertise is on colloidal liquid crystals: interface, phase behavior, dynamics and confinement.
Interests
Louis' general interest is for jobs with positive impact on society. He is particularly attracted to research connected to health and climate change issues. Louis developed recent interest for AI techniques such as machine learning.
Short-lived hand stand
Skills
Louis acquired a lot of transferable skills such as writing (reports and papers), presenting (talks and posters), teaching (undergraduates and general public) and supervising (summer and master students).
On the top of that Louis mastered the following experimental techniques: microscopy (SEM, confocal, BF, fluoresence), soft lithography, colloid synthesis and image analysis.
Transferable Skills
- Communication
- Oral & Written
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Programming languages
- Office, LaTex, Mathematica, etc.
- Teaching & Supervising
- Project management
Strengths
- Creative
- Independent
- Social
- Curious
- Eye for detail
Experimental skills
- Soft lithography
- Microscopy
- Bright field, fluorescence, confocal
- Synthesis
- Image Analysis
- Data Analysis