Funglass in the Teaming club meeting Prof. Dušan Galusek and Dr. Peter Hošták participated in the on-line "Teaming club meeting", which was held on 20th October, 2021. The Teaming club is a free association of 25 Teaming centres successful in the "Horizon2020 Teaming Phase 2" calls, and serves as a platform for the best [...]

Funglass on social networks We would like to inform you that the FunGlass Centre has a new account on Twitter with a handle @FunGlass_Centre.  The Twitter account will present interesting experiments that are done by the scientists of FunGlass or any other interesting topics that could be tweeted such as participation in conferences, [...]

Processing and Properties of Advanced Ceramics and Glass conference in Osrblie The FunGlass team together with the Slovak Silicate Scientific-Technological Society was honored to organize this year conference named PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF ADVANCED CERAMICS AND GLASS held in Osrblie, on October 13th-15th 2021. The annual conference offers a unique opportunity for the [...]

A popular FunGlass School was organized again, after a nonvoluntary Covid break, from October 10th till October 13th, 2021. This time, the FunGlass researchers, PhD students and administrative employees met in the central part of Slovakia, in a small mountain village - Osrblie. The FunGlass School seminar was dedicated especially to the scientific skills [...]

Success of FunGlass in the 23rd Open Access Grant Competition We would like to congratulate to our scientist colleagues Dr. M.Blaško and Dr. E. González Castillo because of their successfulness in the 23rd Open Access Grant Competition, as their project in collaboration with Dr. Benková and Dr. Hrivnák of the Polymer Institute (Slovak [...]

Prof. A. R. Boccaccini- elected Vice-president of Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), long-term international collaborator and member of the scientific board of FunGlass, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) (LINK: https://www.fems.org/ ). [...]

Nurshen Mutlu has obtained a grant supported by DAAD We are delighted to inform you that our PhD student Nurshen Mutlu has obtained a grant supported by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). The selection committee approved Nurshen’s research project which is entitled “Therapeutic ion doped biomaterials for wound healing applications”. Her project will [...]

Dr. A. Pakseresht at Delft University of Technology. Dr. Amirhossein Pakseresht, the Head of FunGlass Department of Coating Processes, as other his researcher colleagues took an opportunity to gain new experiences at andvance research institution. He decided to take two months training (1st September – 30th October, 2021) at Department of Materials Science [...]

Young Scientists Speech Contest of IIC SAS (Slovak Academy of Science) We would like to congratulate our PhD student - Nurshen Mutlu for sharing 2nd place in the Young Scientists Speech Contest of IIC SAS, which was held on 5th October 2021. The judging committee consists of scientists: Ing. Blanka Kubíková, PhD., RNDr. Jana [...]

Prof. M. Liška has received an exceptional award for "Longlife support of science" from the SAS We are pleased to announce that Professor Marek Liška has received an exceptional award  for "Lifelong support of science" from the Slovak Academy of Science. Prof. M. Liška focused his research on the properties of glasses and [...]