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Dr Lydie Ploux is a “Research Director” at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She holds a PhD degree in Biomedical engineering in 1997 from University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC, France). She conducted her research at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay (IPN, Orsay, France), Forschungszentrum of Jülich (FZ Jülich, Germany), the Laboratoire de Neurotransmission In Vivo (URA CNRS/CEA) – Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ, Orsay, France) and Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse (IS2M, France) before joining the INSERM Biomaterials and Bioengineering laboratory in 2018. She studied physics, biomedical engineering and physiotherapy. Her research focuses on the development of new strategies for antimicrobial surfaces and on bacterium-material or biofilm-material biointerfaces (role of the material and microbiological mechanisms). She has published 50 scientific articles, has supervised more than 10 PhD and 10 Post-doctoral researchers or engineers. She is or was the main coordinator or scientific coordinator for 8 projects (ANR, FUI14, Région Alsace, MICA Carnot Institute, CNRS) and is or was involved in 9 others (ANR, MICA Carnot Institute). She is member of the Executive Committee of Biomaterials and Bioengineering laboratory and is member of the Executive and Scientific Committees of two “Groupement de Recherche” (GDR) of the CNRS (GDR3751 “Bioenginering of Interfaces” and GDR2088 “Biomimetism and Bioinspiration”).