4th School “Soft Materials”
28-31 May 2018, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
From the 28th till the 31st of May, 2018, the 4th Summer School organized within the Materials Networking project took place at the Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), Mainz, Germany. The School was attended by 19 researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, as well as by a number of researchers from the host institution, which is one of the partnering organizations within the project.
The event was organized by Dr. Kaloyan Koynov, project leader at MPIP and associate member of the Management Committee of the project, and Professor Hans-Juergen Butt, Head of the Physics at Interfaces Department and member of the Steering Committee of the project. Prof. Butt had the opening lecture of the school. Among the next lecturers were Prof. Katharina Landfester, Head of the Physical Chemistry of Polymers Department, Prof. Kurt Kremer, Head of the Polymer Theory Department, Prof. Paul Blom, Head of the Molecular Electronics Department.
Lectures were also delivered by Dr. Michael Kappl and Dr. Stephan Weber, both from the Physics at Interfaces Department; Dr. Denis Andrienko from the Polymer Theory Department; Prof. Martin Baumgarten, Dr. Grazia Gonella, and Dr. Ellen Backus, all from the Molecular Spectroscopy Department, as well as by Prof. Kazue Kurihara – a guest scientist from Tohoku University, Japan. Prof. Georgi Vayssilov informed the participants about the scope and the activities of the Materials Networking project.
The participants from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University also visited specialized laboratories at MPIP – NMR, FCS, ion-beam manipulation and cryo-TEM, AFM, SFG, and had multiple personal meetings to discuss research topics of common interest with their colleagues from the host institute.
3rd School “Bio-materials: synthesis and characterization”
21-22 March 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria
The 3rd School “Bio-materials: synthesis and characterization” of the H2020 project Materials Networking took place at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria on 21st and 22nd March 2018.
The school aimed to provide the advanced as well as state of the art techniques, methods and applications in the broad area of bio-related systems and materials. The school was organized for researchers, young scientists and PhD students from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy of Sofia University and the lectures were given by scientists from all partnering organizations of the project, namely Assoc. Prof. Ivanka Tsakovska – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Dr. David Ng and Dr. Svenja Morsbach from Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany; Dr. Sotiria Toumpaniary from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK; Prof. Ismael Diez Perez, Prof. Jordi Poater and Dr. Alba Nin-Hill from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain.
The program for the school is available here: program Biomaterials school
2nd School “Computational Modeling of Materials”
4-5 December 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria
The 2nd School “Computational modeling of materials” of the H2020 project Materials Networking was organized at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria on the 4th and the 5th of September, 2017. The School was attended by young scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria, and lecturers were world known scientists in this field from the project partnering organizations. The lecturers were as follows Prof. Pablo Gamallo, Prof. Stefan Bromley, Prof. Eliseo Ruiz, Prof. Sergio Madurga, Prof. Jorge Echeverría and Prof. Jordi Cirera from the University of Barcelona; Prof. Yuki Nagata from Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany as well as Prof. Ivan Vakarelski from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. From Bulgaria, a lecturer was Prof. Ivelina Georgieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and also the three groups from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Bulgaria working in the area of computational chemistry presented their recent research.
The School Program could be found here.
1st School “Advanced Materials”
16-19 July 2017, Cambridge, UK
From the 16th to the 21st of July, 2017, the 1st Materials Networking Workshop & Summer School took place at the University of Cambridge, UK. The School was attended by 15 young researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University and from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona. In the Workshop also participated the members of the Management Committee of the project as well as many researchers from the University of Cambridge.
The host of the event was Professor A. Lindsay Greer FIMMM Head of School of the Physical Sciences and Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Among the lectures were Professor Chris Abell (FRS, FMedSci Pro-Vice-Chancellor – Research, Professor in Biological Chemistry, Co-founder of Astex Pharmaceuticals, Sphere Fluidics, and AQDOT), Dr Tom Bennett (Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Serena Best (Professor of Materials Science, Deputy Head of Department (Research), Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia (FRS, FREng, FNAE Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy), Professor Mark Blamire (Head of Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy and Professor of Device Materials).
The programme of the event could be found here. The contact person for the event was Dr Stoyan Smoukov, Head of Active and Intelligent materials Laboratory, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.
“Materials Networking” project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692146.