Dr. Roberto Berardi (IT) now with a permanent position as a Researcher
in our group.
Dr. Roberto Berardi (IT) now with a permanent position as a Researcher
in our group.
Dr. Francesco Spinozzi (IT) now with a permanent position as
a Researcher at Università di Ancona, Physics, working with Prof. Paolo
Mariani and Prof. Franco Rustichelli
Dr. Garth Shilstone (UK) Deuterium NMR studies of ordering
of solutes in nematic solvents. Garth came from the group of Prof. Luckhurst
at the University ofSouthampton (UK) and after his postdoc in Bologna he moved
to the US to work with Prof. G. Drobny in Seattle. He is now back in UK.
Dr. Alfred Hagemeyer (DE) EU supported fellow, from the group
of Prof. Spiess, University of Mainz (DE), then in Industry with BASF. 13C NMR
studies of orientational order in nematics.
Dr. Andrew P.J. Emerson (UK) 
Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics computer
simulations of Gay-Berne systems, from Univ. of Southampton, UK (group of Prof.
Luckhurst). Following a period at ISM CNR, Bologna, and then with a software
firm, Andy now has a permanent position at CINECA, Bologna, where he is particularly
involved with scientific software (Accelrys in particular) support, in particular
for INSTM users.
Dr. Elisabet Berggren from Stockholm Univ.(Sweden), first with
a Swedish Natural Science Research Cuncil , then a EU
fellowship (CHBICT930679 4 Aug 93- Aug 95) went back to Lund University
and then moved to the EU Centre (Ispra, IT)
Dr. Riccardo Tarroni (IT) became a researcher in Theoretical
Chemistry in Bologna University working with Prof. P. Palmieri and he is now
an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry, teaching in Rimini.
Dr. Marc van Zandvoort
(NL) Fluorescence Depolarization studies of Chlorophyll. Originally from Prof.
Y.Levine group in Utrecht, he was in Bologna as a EU HCM fellow. Now Marc is
at the Department of Biophysics, Maastricht University , NL
Dr. Martin
Bates (UK) from
Univ. of Southampton, UK; (group of Prof. Luckhurst). Martin went to work with
Prof. Daan Frenkel at FOM (NL) and has then moved back to Southampton, with
a Royal Society University Research Fellowships. Martin is now (from 2006)
at York University, UK.
Dr. Joachim Stelzer (DE), From the group of Prof. Trebin, Physics, Stuttgart
University (ITAP), DE, Density Functional Theories, EU
Marie Curie fellow (FMBICT972434 January 1998-December 1998). Joachim has
moved to Industry (SAP) in Germany
Dr. Yves Lansac (FR),
from
Nice, FR : Computer simulations of Gay-Berne systems with charges. (April 1998-
May1999). Yves went to Boulder Colorado to work with Dr. M. Glaser and Prof.
N. Clark and then spent a period in the group of Prof. Goddard III. Yves is
now a Lecturer at Univ. Tours (FR).
Dr. Reiner
Memmer (DE), U. Kaiserslautern, DE. (October-November 1999)
Dr. Dirk Blunk (DE), Icarus fellow, TU Berlin, DE (March 2000).
From TU, Berlin (group of Prof. K. Praefcke), Dirk is now in Organic Chemistry
at Cologne University.
Dr. Reiner
Memmer (DE), Icarus fellow, U. Kaiserslautern, DE. (March 2000,
July-August 2001).
Dr. Alekos
Vanakaras (GR), TMR fellow, from the group of Prof. Photinos, University
of Patras, Greece: Theory of Dipolar Liquid Crystal Systems (March-September,
2000; May-October 2001) . Alekos is now a Lacturer at the University of Patras,
GR, Dept. of Materials Science.
Dr. Timothy Payne (UK): (December
2001-October 2002). Tim come from the group of Prof. G.R. Luckhurst in Southampton
and was in Bologna as a EU-TMR postdoctoral fellow, working on computer simulations,
particularly calculations of viscosity in liquid crystals. Tim has then moved
to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the group of Prof. R. Hashim and has now become
a Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of University of Malaya.
Dr. Corrado Bacchiocchi (IT) (June 2000-June 2003) After his
Ph.D. in Bologna, on the computer simulation of energy transfer in model liquid
crystals and a postdoctoral period with Prof. G.R. Luckhurst, in Southampton,
UK, Corrado has been working on fluorescence energy transfer in muscle systems
in the group of Prof. S. Lehrer at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute,
Boston, MA USA. Back in our group in Bologna he has been mainly engaged in spin
probe ESR investigations of nematics with dispersed silica. Corrado has been
working for INSTM (July 2003-15
July 2006) in charge of liasoning between the INSTM
Direction and the Scientific Sections and Research Units, as well as of INSTM
web site etc. Corrado is now back in the group (July 2006-2007)
Dr. Luca Muccioli (IT) : (Jan 2003- July 2005)) Luca has spent
a fellowship ("assegnista di ricerca") period in the group after completing
his PhD at the end of 2002.
Dr.Dirk
Blunk (DE) :
(May24- June24, 2004) Dirk is at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University
of Cologne and has visited us under the HPC-Europa scheme, to collaborate on
Liquid crystal modelling.
Dr.Baltzar
Stevensson (SE): (Jan 2004-Dec
2004). Maximum Entropy and Computer simulations of flexible molecules in liquid
crystals. Baltzar is from the Physical Chemistry Division, Stockholm University
(group of Prof. A. Maliniak) and was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundations
(Stockholm).
Dr. Andrius Sazonovas (LT): (Oct 2004-April
2005) Modelling and computer simulation of some selected liquid crystalline
systems. Andrius, after getting his degree in Chemistry from the University
of Vilnius (Lithuania) has moved to the Department of Chemistry, University
of Warsaw (Poland), group of Prof. E. Gorecka and was in Bologna with support
from the EU TMR network FAMOUS (Fullerene bases advanced materials for optoelectronic
utilizations).
Dr. Ozhan Kayacan (TR) (9 May- 4 August, 2005). Dr . Kayacan
is from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye,
Manisa, Turkey, and has been visiting us with a fellowship from TUBITAK, the
Turkish Science and Research Council with a project on Tsallis statistics applied
to Liquid Crystals.
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): (July 2003-
September 2005, July 2006, July 2007) Computer simulations of liquid crystal
elastomer models. Gregor has received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of Ljubljana (group of Prof. S. Zumer) and was here as a EU FULCE TMR postdoctoral
fellow and also within the Slovenia-Italy Bilateral ST MAE, project F9: Lattice
Simulations of Liquid Crystal Elastomers project.
Davide Micheletti (IT): (Assegnista Jan 2006-Feb 2006)
Modelling and Computer simulations of polymerization in liquid
crystals and of liquid crystal elastomers. During his PhD in our group (Jan
2003-Dec 2005) Davide has spent a few months (Nov.2004- Feb.2005) in SARA, Amsterdam
as HPC-Europa Fellow. Davide now works in Industry
(at Reglass).
Dr.
Ozhan Kayacan (TR)(5 June
2006- 30 June 2006) Dr . Kayacan
is from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye,
Manisa, Turkey. He has visited us a first time with a Tubitak fellowship and
now he has been visiting us with a HPC-Europa fellowship with a project on Tsallis
statistics applied to Liquid Crystals.
Sholto McLaren (UK). (July-August 2006) Sholto comes from the
group of Prof. Neville Boden and Richard Busby in Leeds University where he
has completed his PhD on the synthesis and modelling of discotics. He has previously
been visiting us with a HPC-Europa grant (Sept. 1 - Nov.4 2005). Now
is here as a EU FULCE TMR postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Philippe Marsal (FR): (20 Feb 2007-20 March 2007) Philippe
has completed his Ph.D. at Université
de Provence in Marseille (2002), then he has been a postdoctoral fellow in Mons
and is now in Leuven as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been visiting us within
the HPC-Europa scheme.
Ms.
Saeedeh Shoarinejad (IR) (27
April 2007- 27 September 2007)
Ms. Shoarinejad is from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isfahan
University (IR) and has visited our group with the support of a fellowship from
Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, to work on Liquid Crystals.
Dr. Ilaria Vecchi: 
(Jan 2007-Mar
2008) ESR studies of liquid crystal based complex systems.
Ilaria has completed her Ph.D.
in our group (Jan 2004-Dec 2006) and currently has been supported by a NAIMO
postdoctoral grant.
Dr. Patrick Brocorens (BE): 
(Jan
2008-Mar 2008) Patrick
has visited our lab from the Service de Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux,
Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, collaborating on modelling and simulations
of materials for organic electronics (NAIMO).
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): 
(26 June-25
July 2008) Computer simulations of liquid crystal elastomer models. Gregor is
visiting from the Physics Department, University of Ljubljana (group of Prof.
S. Zumer) to continue the collaboration started in the past few years, within
the Slovenia-Italy Bilateral ST MAE, project F9: Lattice Simulations of Liquid
Crystal Elastomers project.
Dr.
Ozhan Kayacan (TR)
(
8-27 July 2008) Dr . Kayacan is
from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye, Manisa,
Turkey. He is visiting us with a HPC-Europa fellowship with a project on Tsallis
statistics applied to Liquid Crystals.
Dr.
Corrado Bacchiocchi. 
Corrado is working on the modelling of Energy transfer
in condensed phases (supported by EU6
project MODECOM, August 2008-15
June 2009), as well as on ESR and simulations. Corrado is now RTD (Ricercatore
a Tempo Determinato) at Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche della Facoltà
di Scienze e Tecnologie di Camerino.
Ms. Emel Kilit 
(1
Dec 2008- 30 Nov 2009) Computer Simulations and Phase
Transitions in Liquid Crystals. Emel Kilit has been visiting us from the Department
of Physics, Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara, Turkey, where she is Research Assistant
and completing her Doctorate.
Dr. Yoann Olivier (BE) (Feb 2010- May 2010)
Yoann is from the group of Prof. J. Cornil,
Dept. Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Université de Mons-Hainaut,
Belgium and has visited us within the HPC-Europa framework.
Dr. Sai Preeti Gouripeddi,
(15 June 2009- 30 Nov 2010) 
Models of biaxial liquid crystal systems, supported by the BIND project. Sai
is from the group of Prof. V.S.S. Sastry, Department of Physics, University
of Hyderabad, India, where she has completed her Ph.D in 2009. and has
visited before our group in the framework of the Italian-Indian Bilateral collaborative
project (19 Oct 2006- 12 Dec 2006) . Sai has been working
on biaxial phases and defects with the support of EU project BIND.
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): (15-22 May
2011) Gregor was visiting from the Physics Department, University of Ljubljana
to continue the collaboration started in the past few years, particularly on
Liquid Cystal Elastomers.
Pavlik Lettinga
(NL)(March-June 1994) from Dept. of Biophysics, Univ. of Utrecht
(NL): Fluorescence Depolarization. Pavlik is now on the Scientific staff at
IFF-Institute:
Soft Matter Julik.
Alexandros Vanakaras (GR): from Physics Department., University
of Patras (GR): Theory and simulations of Dipolar liquid crystals
Christof Horn (DE), from Stuttgart University (ITAP) (DE):
Computer simulations of Gay-Berne systems (November 1998 - June 1999).Now at
ITAP, University of Stuttgart.
Luca Muccioli (IT): Modelling and Computer simulations of
liquid crystals (January 1999 - December 1999)
Marco Cecchini (IT): Modelling and computer simulations of
chiral liquid crystals (Oct. 2000- Sept. 2001) Marco has do (2002-2005)
his PhD with Prof. Caflish at the University of Zuerich , Switzerland and is
now in the group of Prof. M. Karplus in Strasburg, France.
Gregor Skacej
(SI), Icarus fellow, from Dept. Physics, Ljubljana University, Slovenia (October
2000, October 2001) Computer simulation of lattice models of liquid crystals.
Gregor then has obtained his PhD from Ljubljana in 2002.
Matteo Pappalardo (IT): Università di Catania. Matteo
is from the group of Prof. Grasso and his work has concerned the Computer simulation
of Biosystems (Nov 2001 - Dec 2001)
Frédéric Barmes (FR), TMR fellow, from the group
of Dr. Doug Cleaver, Sheffield Hallam University, Department of Physics (February
2002-June 2002; September 2002) Fred has now (Jul 2003) obtained his Ph.D. in
Sheffield and is now at CECAM, Lyon, FR.
Alberto Costantini (IT): Modelling
and Computer simulations (15 Nov. 2002- 15 March 2003). Alberto is now working
in industry.
Emmanuelle Hennebicq (BE), from Dept. Chimie des Matériaux
Nouveaux, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium(Oct 2003) Energy
Transfer
Tiberio Giustiniano (IT): (Oct 2003-Dec 2003) Modelling and Computer
simulations of liquid crystal systems
Ilaria Vecchi (IT): (Dec 2003) ESR studies of liquid crystal based
complex systems.
Gaia Cesari (IT): (Sept 2004) Modelling and simulation of polymer systems.
Adriana Pietropaolo (IT) (October 2004-January 2005) Modelling and
computer simulation of selected prion protein fragments. Adriana is from University
of Catania (Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, group of Prof. E. Rizzarelli)
and is preparing her "Diploma di Licenza" for the Scuola
Superiore di Catania.
Laurence Ellison (UK) (8 April- 21 May 2005) . Laurence is from the
group of Dr. Doug Cleaver, Materials and Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK and visited us and CINECA supercomputer Centre for a collaboration
supported by the HPC-Europa scheme.
Marco Mazzeo (IT): (9 May 2005 - 9 Aug 2005) 
Computer simulations. Parallel computing. Marco has spent a few months at EPCC,
Edinburgh, as HPC-Europa fellow and then developing parallel codes within EU-NAIMO.
Marco has then moved (since October 2005) to UCL, London, doing a PhD, in the
group of Prof. P. Coveney.
Sholto McLaren (UK) (Sept. 1 - Nov.4 2005).
Sholto is from the group of Prof. Neville Boden and Richard Busby in Leeds University
and is completing his PhD on the synthesis and modelling of discotics. He has
been visiting us with a HPC-Europa grant
Antonio
Pizzirusso (IT) (Dec. 2005) Modelling
Surfaces and their interactions with liquid crystals within NAIMO. Antonio has
now (2006) started his Ph.D. in the group.
Yoann Olivier (BE) (1 May 2006- 15 June 2006) Yoann is from
the group of Prof. J. Cornil, Dept.
Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium.
Isabella Miglioli
(IT) (22 May 2006 - 31 Dec 2006). Isabella has got her Laurea in Industrial
Chemistry with the supervision of Prof. A.
Hockoeppler working, mainly at ETH Zurich, on a thesis on the Supramolecular
aggregation of amphiphilic peptides. Isabella has been collaborating with us
first within the EU project NAIMO and then within PRRIITT Nanofaber.
Sai Preeti Gouripeddi (India), (19 Oct 2006- 12 Dec 2006)
Lattice
models of biaxial liquid crystal systems, Sai is from
the group of Prof. Sastry, Department of Physics, University of Hyderabad,
India and was visiting our group in the framework of the Italian-Indian Bilateral
collaborative project.
Maria Beatrice Di Cicco (IT)
(May 2006- December 2006) Beatrice has got her Laurea
in our group working on modelling of solutes. Beatrice was supported by a PRRIITT
Nanofaber (“Laboratorio di nanofabbricazione per
l'Emilia Romagna”) fellowship. She is now working in Industry.
Matteo Savini
(IT) (1
Feb 2007 - 31 Dec 2007). Matteo has obtained his Laurea in Biotechnology with
top marks, working with Prof. S.
Ciurli, on Molecular and computational approaches for the study of some proteins,
and has been working with us on Modelling and Simulations. Matteo
has now moved to work in a firm.
Dr. Juho Lintvuori
(FI): 
(26 Sept.
-26 Oct. 2008) Juho is visiting from the groups of prof. Mark Wilson in Durham,
UK, where he was doing his Ph.D. with the support of HPC-Europa. Juho is now
working in Edinburgh.
Dr. Masanao
Goto
(Japan): 
(3 Oct -
14 Nov. 2008) Masanao has been visiting us from the laboratory of Prof. Takezoe
and Ishikawa, Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Japan where he was currently completing his Ph.D. After his Ph.D.
masanao went to work in Industry.
Julien
Idé (FR)
17 Jan 2011 - 4 March 2011) Julien is from
Université
de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Bordeaux, France
and is currently doing a joint Ph.D. at U. Bordeaux (Prof. F.
Castet) and UMH, Mons, (Prof. D. Beljonne). He has been visiting us with a HPC-Europa
grant .
Prof. Elliott
Burnell
(CA), from University of British Columbia, Canada. On sabbatical leave in
Bologna from Feb. 98 to June 1998. Computer simulations of quadrupolar Gay-Berne
model liquid crystals.
Prof.
Dr.V.S.S. Sastry (India), School of Physics, University of
Hyderabad, India (8 July 2006 - 18 July 2006). Prof. Sastry has visited us with
the support of the Bilateral Research Project MST 7 “Computer Simulations
of Liquid Crystals” approved within the Italy- India Programme of Scientific
and Technological Co-Operation 2005-2007.
Prof. Mark Wilson
(UK): (1 Feb 2008- 7 Mar 2008 and(9-20 May 2011)) Mark is
a Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Durham, UK,
and one of the leading experts of computer simulation of Liquid Crystals. He
has visited our lab and CINECA within the framework of HPC-Europa collaborative
scheme in High Performance Computing, collaborating on novel simulations of
complex liquid crystal systems.
Prof. Philippe Marsal (FR): (13-27 May 2011) Philippe
is from the Centre Interdisciplinaire
de Nanoscience de Marseille, University of Aix-Marseille and he is visiting
us within the HPC-Europa scheme.
Group email: zannoni@boifzc.fci.unibo.it