Hakima Mendil-Jakani is a French physical chemist and engineer specializing in soft condensed matter.
Mendil-Jakani earned a scientific baccalaureate with honors in 1997, and a university diploma of technology in physical measurements.
In 2006, she defended her PhD thesis in physics entitled Identification of elastic terminal behavior in polymer melts, liquid crystal polymers and analysis of the phase transition induced by shear, which she completed under the supervision of Laurence Noirez at the University of Paris-Sud.
[1] In 2007, she joined the fundamental research department on condensed matter in the Ionic Polymer group at CEA Grenoble.
She is part of the Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Functional Materials (STEP) laboratory of the Nanosciences and Cryogenics Institute (IAC).