Marie Capron is a junior scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (France) where she works with AFM on soft and hard matter samples. In addition to users support, she studies local cell wall properties on different types of wood using contact resonance AFM.
Her most recent research investigates the spatial and temporal stiffening kinetics of the developing cell wall layers recorded during fibre maturation on a sample of poplar tension wood fibres by AFM.
Dr Marie Capron
Recent AFM-related papers:
Biography: Marie completed her PhD at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse (IMFT) (France) in 2014 before becoming a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering (LMGC) (France) studying the mechanical characterisation of developing tension wood cell walls at different maturation steps by AFM.
She then continued her postdoctoral research at Nagoya University (Japan) where she focused on the variation of local cell wall properties resulting from various hygro-thermal treatments by AFM on different types of wood. Since 2017 she has worked as a Junior Scientist at the ESRF where she is in charge of the AFM platform.
Twitter: @capri_maron
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