Welcome to my personal website. My name is Ilyesse Bihi, and I am a Research Scientist in the µFlow group of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium.

I develop integrated microfluidic devices, from the chip to the complete instrument. My work starts from the physics of interfaces and multiphase flows and leads to devices that others can use, in the lab or in industry. It focuses on the controlled production and manipulation of droplets and particles, for applications in drug delivery, crystallization and agriculture, and on microfluidic separations and chromatography, with a growing interest in centrifugal lab-on-a-disc platforms.

Brief bio: Dr. Bihi’s research focuses on microfluidic device development, combining modeling, in-house fabrication and experimental validation. He has been at VUB since 2019, working with academic and industrial partners across Europe. He contributes to the design, writing and management of European and regional research projects, supervises PhD and Master’s students, teaches in Master’s courses, and manages the µFlow research laboratory. He is also part of the core team that set up and first operated the new MICROLAB cleanroom at VUB. From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Biomechanics and Bioengineering Laboratory (BMBI, UTC Compiègne, France), where he developed a microfluidic bioreactor for platelet production, a technology later transferred to industry. In 2016, he obtained a joint PhD: a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida (USA) and a PhD in Micro- and Nanotechnology from Lille University/IEMN (France). He received an MSc in Mechanical Sciences and Engineering from Lille University in 2012. In 2017, he received the Pierre Isoard Award from ASPEC (Paris) for his doctoral work on removing particles and bacterial spores from surfaces, and he was qualified for associate professor positions in France. He also enjoys sharing science with the public through outreach events and the media.