One year already since LeidenForce began its experiments on the Leidenfrost effect!

@stephanedorbolo, project coordinator at @UniversitedeLiege shares insights on how the team came together and the key early steps in launching a research project.

🔗 Read the full interview: https://www.leidenforce.eu/stephane-dorbolo-interview

#LeidenForce #HorizonEurope #PhD #Collaboration #ResearchProject #MSCA

Inside LeidenForce: One Year of European Research on the Leidenfrost Effect – Interview with Coordinator Stéphane Dorbolo

For the past year, the Horizon Europe-funded consortium LeidenForce has been studying the Leidenfrost effect with the goal of understanding and ultimately controlling it. To mark LeidenForce’s first anniversary, we spoke with Stéphane Dorbolo, project coordinator, based at the Université de Liège (PTyX laboratory, FNRS). A specialist in fluid physics and soft matter, he studies droplets and granular materials in collaboration with several international research teams. In this interview, he... Read more

🎉 #LeidenForce turns one!

Yesterday, we celebrated our first anniversary.

To mark the occasion, we are sharing a video introducing the Doctoral Candidates who drive the project forward. This teaser marks the beginning of a series of interviews.

▶️ Discover the faces behind LeidenForce – #Trueforce: https://youtu.be/VAdR3VmmpkU?si=pcBFLCoKMl1xOdYD

ULB | @utwente | ISTA | @UniversitedeLiege de Liège | ULille | NTNU | UCBL | UPPA | ESPCI

#MSCA #HorizonEurope #DoctoralNetwork #Leidenfrost #Research #Science #PhD

Meet the LeidenForce True Force (teaser)

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On #WomenInScience day, we welcome Lorena Victoria García to #LeidenForce.

Her PhD explores if an electric field can locally switch off the #LeidenfrostEffect.

Supervised by Anne-Laure Biance at @cnrs & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), with a secondment at CRM Group (Belgium).

🔗 https://www.leidenforce.eu/welcomeLorena

#PhD #Research #STEM

📌 To (re)live the #LeidenForce #WinterSchool 2026 (lectures, PhD talks, photos, and highlights from the week), read full article here → https://www.LeidenForce.eu/postwinterschool2026

📷 NTNU - @utwente - FNRS - @UniversitedeLiege - @ULBruxelles - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - @cnrs - IMFT - Saint-Gobain Research Paris - ISTA - ESPCI

#LeidenfrostEffect #FluidDynamics #HorizonEurope #PhD #Research

Beneath the Vapor, Into Science: Highlights from the LeidenForce Winter School 2026

A droplet placed on a scorching surface might seem doomed to vanish instantly. Yet under certain conditions, it does the opposite: it levitates on its own vapor layer, moves with surprising mobility, and reveals a physics both elegant and complex. This is the essence of the Leidenfrost effect, spectacular, but crucial for many industrial processes, from cooling to cryogenic storage. Centered on this phenomenon, the LeidenForce Winter School 2026... Read more

🎳 Bowling break at the #LeidenForce Winter School! PhD students, postdocs, speakers & the team had fun.

💡 Can you guess the participants behind these team names… or spot the winners?

Hint: they’re pairs! 🏆

#LeidenForce #WinterSchool #Leidenfrost #TeamSpirit #LabLife #ScienceFun

Day 4 morning – last lectures at #LeidenForce Winter School: David Paulovics @utwente on impinging Leidenfrost jets, Alexis Duchesne from Université de Lille on levitated liquid tori & star-shaped drops. Experiments & curiosity!

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #DropletPhysics #FluidMechanics #PhysicsExperiments #LabLife

Day 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon ISTA – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc, @ULBruxelles TIPS Lab), Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan (@ULBruxelles TIPS Lab) shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics

PhD talks at #LeidenForce Winter School (Days 2–3):

Apurav Tambe (Univ. of Waterloo), Gauri Patki @UniversitedeLiege & Université de Lille), Pablo Gil Gonzalez & Mélanie Bulois @ULBruxelles, Cheikh Tidiane Dioum (Univ. of Liège), Tristan Simon @cnrs Saint-Gobain.

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #FluidMechanics

Day 4 and final day of the #LeidenForce Winter School starts under the snow ❄️

Resort Bad Boekelo turned into a winter postcard.

#WinterSchool #SnowDay #ResearchLife

Day 3 #LeidenForce Winter School afternoon:

Benoît Scheid @ULBruxelles on antibubbles & heat/mass transfer toward encapsulated Leidenfrost droplets.

Christian Diddens @utwente on sharp-interface finite element simulations for #Leidenfrost droplets.

#MultiphaseFlows #DropletPhysics #NumericalSimulation