Niki Baccile is a physicochemist working in the field of Soft Matter. He obtained a PhD in Materials’ Chemistry in 2006 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), Paris (France) and worked as a post-doc at the Institute Charles Gerhardt in Montpellier (France) in 2007 and at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm (Germany), in 2008. Since 2008, he is full-time CNRS (French scientific national research council) research fellow at Sorbonne University, Paris. He currently explores the self-organization properties of microbial biosurfactants and their potential use in soft matter.