Our story

Florine Maes

CEO and co-founder

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.

Didier Roux

Vice President

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.

Justine Bunot

Office Manager

After studying in a Business and Management School, Justine quickly developed her skills in international project management and administration by joining two companies in the United States and in England.

She held the position of Project Manager for almost 6 years. Justine has a strong interest in communication and marketing and is extending her experience in the development of human-sized companies.

Loïc Pichavant

CTO - R&D Engineer

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.

Ariane Peyret

Microfluidics Engineer

After studying chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Bordeaux, Ariane specialized in polymer formulation during her doctoral thesis at the Laboratory of Chemistry of Organic Polymers.

She has since worked as an R&D engineer and project manager in the pharmaceutical industry in the areas of controlled drug delivery and packaging for clinical trial.

Wafa Gati

Production Manager

After her PhD at the University of Versailles in organic, mineral and industrial chemistry, Wafa specialized in the synthesis of molecules for therapeutic purposes by joining the Molecular Catalysis Research Center in Nagoya (Japan).

Then she joined the European Institute of Chemistry and Biology (IECB) in Bordeaux to work as a project leader in collaboration with Dart NeuroSciences (USA) on the synthesis of cyclopentanoids for neurotherapeutic applications.

Later, she joined the Laboratory of Organic Polymer Chemistry (LCPO) to work on poly(ionic liquids) and their physicochemical properties.

Hamza Ouattara

Microfluidic Analysis Technician

Hamza is specialized in the analysis and formulation of dispersed environment (emulsion formulation, complex fluid formulation with polymers or particles…) during his technical studies at the University of Bordeaux.

He has since worked as technician R&D in the research laboratory, on enhanced oil recovery (EOR), improving the performance of detergents or the gelcoat formulation.

Vasily Shenshin

Business Developer

Vasily read Biochemistry and Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London. This was followed by a PhD with Yannick Rondelez at ESPCI Paris, focusing on Molecular Programs for in emulsion applications.

His interest in versatile platform technologies and international experience brought him to the Emulseo commercial team. He pays particular attention to customer-tailored support.

Erwin Shan

Sales Representative

After getting his first year of master’s degree in Green Chemistry at the University of Toulouse and two years in a Junior-Entreprise, Erwin is now in a sandwich course at Emulseo for his second year of master’s degree in the Claude Bernard University in Lyon.

His dual skill both in business and in science allows him to better understand customer’s need and better guide them.