Wiebke Drenckhan, born 6 April 1977 in Bad Belzig, is a Germanphysicist. She is a CNRS research director at the Institut Charles Sadron, where she investigates the physics and physical chemistry of liquid and solid foams and emulsions. She also works as illustrator for scientific journals and popular science books and she collaborates regularly with artists and designers.
Wiebke Drenckhan works on the physics and physical chemistry of liquid and solid foams and emulsions.[3] Linking fundamental and applied research, she combines experiments and computer simulations to advance our understanding of the generation, stability and structure of liquid foams and emulsions. She uses this understanding to propose new approaches for the generation of solid polymer foams with controlled structural properties in a “liquid templating” approach, with the goal to understand and control their structure-property relations. Of particular interest to her work is the development of interfacial mechanisms to modify in a controlled manner how bubbles and drops interact in foams and emulsions in order to create self-assembled polymeric metamaterials.
Wiebke Drenckhan is actively involved in different scientific outreach activities.[9][10][11][12] She collaborates regularly with artists and designers. She also works as cartoonist and illustrator for scientific journals and popular science books.[13][14] She provided for many years physics cartoons for the German Physik Journal and illustrated the “Physics in Daily life” Column by Jo Hermans in Europhysics News.
