Team and board - Emulseo

Our team

Corporate management

Florine Maes

CEO and co-founder

Florine Maes

CEO and co-founder

PhD

For more than 10 years, Florine has had knowledge and a broad vision in physical chemistry of polymers and soft matter, and in droplet-based microfluidics.

After her doctorate at the Mines ParisTech, she joined the team of Jean-Christophe Baret at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen in 2012, then continued to work alongside Jean-Christophe Baret at CRPP in 2014. Florine joined as a Business Developer in January 2017 on the FluoSurf project which led to the creation of the company Emulseo in September 2018 and of which she is the CEO.

Commercial

Emmanuel GRENON

Head of business development

Emmanuel GRENON

Head of business development

Eric Ollivier

Commercial Director

Eric Ollivier

Commercial Director

LAURIE LESCOS

Sales

LAURIE LESCOS

Sales

PhD

After studying chemistry at the University of Bordeaux, Laurie achieved a PhD in physical chemistry at the Institute of Molecular Sciences, during which she was able to specialize in theoretical/computational/quantum chemistry. She had the opportunity to take part in international collaborations, notably with Belgium, Italy and Spain. Whether during her various internships or during her PhD, Laurie has always been keen to work on environmental or biomedical projects.

At Emulseo, Laurie employs her in-depth comprehension of surfactant properties and droplet microfluidic behavior. This expertise enables her to provide valuable support, advice, and assistance to Emulseo’s customers.

JUSTINE BUNOT

Marketing & communication

JUSTINE BUNOT

Marketing & communication

After completing her education in Business and Management, Justine swiftly honed her expertise in international project management and communication through roles with two prominent companies in the United States (1 year) and England (3 years).

With about 10 years as a dedicated Project Manager, she has demonstrated exceptional proficiency in orchestrating diverse projects with precision and efficiency. Justine’s passion for communication and marketing drives her to continually expand her skill set, particularly in fostering the growth of small to mid-sized enterprises. Her commitment to excellence and adaptability make her a valuable asset in any professional setting.

Technical

Estelle Andre

Microfluidic applications

Estelle Andre

Microfluidic applications

PhD

After studying chemistry in an engineering school in Toulouse (ENSIACET), Estelle specialized in droplet-based microfluidics during her PhD at IFP Energies nouvelles in Rueil-Malmaison.

Then she joined CEA Grenoble to work as a post-doc on pancreas-on-chip.

Her different experiences gave Estelle a strong interest in microfluidics for biotechnology applications.

Loïc Pichavant

R&D

Loïc Pichavant

R&D

PhD

As a Chemical engineer, Loïc specialized in polymer chemistry during his thesis at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. For nearly ten years, Loïc worked on the synthesis of polymers with controlled architectures for biomedical applications (vectorization, drug delivery …) at the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO) and is co-author more than 20 publications and one patent.

Jérôme Buchoux

Production

Jérôme Buchoux

Production

After studying engineering chemistry, Jérôme has begun his career in fats and oils extraction and purification. Then he continued his professional experience in cosmetic materials process development and industrialization.

He joined the Emulseo team in April 2022, where he is working as production operations manager.

He is in charge of the chemical reactor where the magic happens: thanks to Jerome’s attention to details, the surfactants syntheses are all perfect to meet our customers satisfaction.

Roxane Le Maistre

Microfluidic analysis technician

Roxane Le Maistre

Microfluidic analysis technician

As the youngest member of the team, Roxane recently graduated and right after, joined Emulseo in October 2024. Originally from Martinique, she moved to France to pursue a HND in Chemistry. Particularly drawn by the formulation field, she wanted to deepen her knowledge and therefore pursued a bachelor’s degree in dispersed environment formulation. Finally, her strong curiosity for innovative sciences and new technologies naturally led her to Emulseo, where she now contributes to the development of advanced formulations.

Support service

Emilie BERAL

CFO

Emilie BERAL

CFO

Delphine VIVET

Administrative and accounting assistant

Delphine VIVET

Administrative and accounting assistant

Marie-Hélène Lacchia

Strategic board

Didier Roux

Vice President

Didier Roux

Vice President

PhD

Member of the Academy of Sciences – Member of the Academy of Technology
Didier Roux was born in 1955, a former student of ENS Saint-Cloud, member of the CNRS from 1980 to 2005.

He is a laureate of numerous awards and honors. He holds the CNRS silver medal. He created two start-ups in 1994 and 1998, he was deputy scientific director of Rhône Poulenc and Rhodia between 1997 and 2005. He held the position of Director of R & D and Innovation of the Saint-Gobain Group between 2005 and 2017 Saint Gobain.

He is a member of the Institut de France (Academy of Sciences) and the Academy of Technology. He was a professor at the Collège de France (2016-2017 annual chair “Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt”).

He is President of Unitec, Vice-President of the Foundation La Main à la Pâte and Delegate for Scientific Information and Communication of the Académie des Sciences.

Jean-Christophe Baret

Professor - University of Bordeaux

Jean-Christophe Baret

Professor - University of Bordeaux

JCB obtained his PhD in 2005 from the Univ. Twente in a collaboration with Philips Research on electrocapillarity. He then moved to a post-doc position in Strasbourg at ISIS with A.Griffiths, where he contributed to the early developments of droplet based microfluidics for high throughput screening in biology. In 2010, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and self organization in Goettingen as a group leader, where he obtained an ERC starting grant project Sofi, followed by the ERC proof of concept FluoSurf. Both projects led to the creation of emulseo in 2018.

Since 2014, he is full professor at the Univ Bordeaux and research group leader at the CNRS lab CRPP. He is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2016. He was awarded the Prix de la Fondation Del Duca en 2020 and the Prix Forcheur Jean-Marie Lehn with T. Erb in 2020.

Besides fundamental research using microfluidics, JCB is promoting the technological transfer of droplet based microfluidics towards the industry, with Emulseo and other companies. As a recent example his group has partnered with Carbios on microfluidic screening of enzymes for plastic recycling. JCB serves as an editor for the journal Lab on a Chip (Royal Society of Chemistry), the leading journal for microfluidics since 2022.

Valérie TALY

Research Director - University of Paris Descartes

Valérie TALY

Research Director - University of Paris Descartes

Valerie Taly is CNRS research director class 1 (DR1) and Group leader of Translational Research And Microfluidics group (TRAM) within the MEPPOT laboratory (Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics and therapeutic optimization) located in the Cordeliers Research Center. Her group performs interdisciplinary researches aiming at developing microfluidic tools for cancer research in close collaboration with clinicians and researchers in oncology. In particular, this team has been pioneered in the development of droplet based digital PCR to detect tumor specific genetic and epigenetic alterations as well as on the applications of the developed technologies to clinically relevant questions including liquid biopsy analysis. She is co-author of >120 scientific articles and co-inventor of 13 patents. She is regularly invited to set on various comittees, boards and jurys. In addition to being co-founder of emulseo, she is also co-founder, alongside Guillaume Gines, Benjamin Nayagom, Pierre Laurent-Puig & Yannick Rondelez, of METHYS Dx start-up company that develop innovative technologies for cancer patient follow-up.

Valérie Scappaticci

Founder of Aelis Farma, former Director at EY

Valérie Scappaticci

Founder of Aelis Farma, former Director at EY

Valérie Scappaticci graduated from the EM Lyon business school with an MBA (finance and accounting), she is also a certified public accountant and auditor.. She worked for 25 years in auditing and management consulting at EY and PWC, in France and abroad (Australia, Spain). As Associate Director at EY, she focused on accompanying innovative companies in their strategic development, through mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.

In 2013, determined to take up an entrepreneurial challenge, she co-founded Aelis Farma, a biotech company, and was initially its Chief Executive Officer, before switching to a CFO role in 2017. She was key in enabling the company to structure itself from a start up company to a listed entity, in securing the financing required by its development programs, in establishing a major manufacturing partnership, and in listing the company onto the French regulated stock market in 2022.

In 2023, she chose to invest her energy into helping innovative startup companies in facing the challenges of fund raising and structuring of their activities. Emulseo was a logical first choice since Valérie has been a member of its strategic committee since 2019, and is also one of its shareholders.