About
Dr Olivier Sandre is tenured CNRS researcher since 2001, and senior researcher since 2014. After initial research on ferrofluids in 1996 with Pr Jean-Claude Bacri, Pr Régine Perzynski and in collaboration with their inventors, Dr Ron E. Rosensweig (for physics) and Pr René Massart (for chemistry), he pursued his PhD thesis in 2000 on the dynamics of pores in giant lipid vesicles, supervised by Pr Françoise Brochard-Wyart at the Curie Institute in Paris. Then he did a 1-year post-doc at Chem. Engr. Dpt of UC Santa Barbara with Pr David J. Pine and Pr Deborah K. Fygenson, where he studied physical properties of recombinant protein nanotubes. In 2001, he came back to Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris as junior CNRS researcher in Pr Valérie Cabuil’s lab, to work on polymeric systems doped with magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs). He joined the Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry at the Univ. Bordeaux and Bordeaux INP in 2010, after collaborating with Pr Sébastien Lecommandoux since 2003 on the design and study of magnetic polymersomes for theranostic applications (MRI combined with anti-cancer therapy). He published more than 110 articles on the design and properties of various nanohybrid self-assemblies, based on different bricks including polymers, lipids, inorganic nanoparticles (IONPs, Au NPs...), optical probes, MRI contrast agents (either IONPs or Mn complexes), and more recently model polymer particles to study micro/nanoplastic pollution. From 2019 to the end of 2023, he served as Chair of the Scientific Council of the CNRS Institute of Chemistry. Since November 2025, he is General secretary of the French Polymer Group.