13/03/15 20:21
On the 12th of March 2015 the European Research Council (ERC)
publicized the list of this year's Consolidator Grant winners, making it official that Jan's proposal INTERACT was selected for support. The support means that for the next five years the Experimental Soft Matter Physics group will be working very actively on wearable technology, soft robotics and innovative techniques for secure authentication. As the project gets going (current projected starting date is 1st of April 2015) there will be many updates.
Tags: awards, projects
06/03/15 07:15
In connection to the German Liquid Crystal Conference in Stuttgart we took the opportunity to organize a reunion of the Halle group, with Giusy and JungHyun as "honorary guests". From left to right: Eva (now in Stuttgart), Giusy, Jan, Martin (now in Würzburg), Stefan (now in Leipzig), Sarah (now in Magdeburg) and JungHyun. Hsin-Ling should have been there as well but a train accident in London prevented her from catching her flight, so in the end she could only join us via Skype.
Tags: Group, events
04/03/15 07:07
At the 42nd German Liquid Crystal Conference in Stuttgart, JungHyun gave a talk on her and Kevin's work on liquid crystal shells. The talk was entitled "A sensitive interplay between phase transitions and director field reorientations in liquid crystalline shells". Immediately after JungHyun, Martin took the stage and told about his recent work in Paderborn prior to joining the ESMP group, in a talk entitled "Studies on the compatibility of spherical nanoparticles in a nematic host and their impact on the electro-optic properties".
Tags: presentations
01/03/15 18:40
We have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Martin Urbanski to the Experimental Soft Matter Physics group as a post-doc. He comes from the University of Paderborn, Germany, where he worked with Prof. Heinz Kitzerow. Martin secured a personal post-doc grant from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR) for a two-year project entitled DISGONA. He will be studying nematic liquid crystals functionalized with gold nanoparticles by means of dielectric spectroscopy.
Tags: Group, post-docs
