She is research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and leads the liquid interface group in the Laboratory of Solid State Physics at the University of Paris-Sud.

She has had a major role in bringing together scientists and mathematicians from multiple disciplines to develop the field of foam and emulsion science.

[5] Her books include Light Scattering by Liquid Surfaces and Complementary Techniques (1992)[6] and Emulsions, microemulsions and foams (2020).

[1] She received a PhD from the women's École Normale Supérieure (ENS Sèvres) in Paris, and did a third-cycle thesis at the Laboratory of Hertzian Spectroscopy, supervised by Marie-Anne Bouchiat.

[8] Her areas of research have included the experimental study of soft matter physics, including the surface of liquid crystals, mixtures of surfactants and polymers, the effects of nanoparticles on foams, foam drainage and soap film drainage, and the surface rheology of ultralow tension surfactant-oil-water systems.