Business meeting with LG Chemistry On invitation from LG Chemistry, Korea, the FunGlass director, prof. Galusek visited on August 29 the LG research and development centre in Seoul. At the meeting he presented the research activities of the FunGlass centre and discussed possible lines of collaboration. The Korean side was represented by dr. [...]

FunGlass is welcoming new colleague Dr. Nitin Kamble We are glad to report that FunGlass is welcoming a new team member again! Dr. Nitin Kamble arrived from Mumbai, India to Slovakia and he joined in the VILA research department. Dr. Nitin Kamble is a research scientist with extensive research on composite oxide materials.  [...]

Lecturer from the University of the West Indies at FunGlass Venkateswara Rao Penugonda, M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D.  Physics lecturer from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica has been visiting the FunGlass Centre from July 3 to August 27, 2018 under the SAIA, National Scholarship Programme (NSP). Dr Penugonda’s general research [...]

FunGlass participants at the PNCS-ESG2018 conference in St. Malo France Three FunGlass researchers attended the 15th international conference on Physics of Non-Crystalline Physics organized in conjuction with the bi-annual 14th European Society of Glass Conference on July 9-13 in St. Malo, France (PNCS ESG 2018) Prof. Galusek presented a lecture co-authored by Anna Prnova, [...]

2nd annual meeting of International Advisory Board (IAB) of FunGlass in Saint Malo It is with pleasure that we can report on 2nd annual meeting of International Advisory Board (IAB) held on July 8, 2018 in Saint Malo, France. Since getting IAB members coming from non-European countries are usually hard to get into [...]

10th ICG Montpellier Summer School Our PhD students Fatih Kurtuldu, Petr Chrast, Susanta Sengupta  and researcher Dr. Jozef Prachar take part in 10th ICG Montpellier Summer School held on July 2nd- 7st. The workshop was composed of two interwoven threads. The first was overview fundamentals in glass emphasising structure-property relationships, experimental techniques and material [...]

ICC7 2018 congress in Brasil with a FunGlass representative The International congress on ceramics ICC2018 (http://www.icc7.com.br) organised by the Brasilian Ceramic Society on June 17-21 in Foz do Iguaçú with the motto „Ceramizing the Future for a Sustainable Society“. FunGlass was represented at the event by its director, prof. Galusek, who delivered an invited [...]