Marc-Antoine Fardin is a physicist and researcher at the Jacques Monod Institute at Paris Diderot University in the cellular and mechanical adhesion team. He studied at Paris Diderot University, Columbia University in New York, and MIT in Boston. He has also worked for the National University of Singapore and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. His work focuses on the deformations and flows of matter, whether they are polymers, cells, tissues, or even cats.