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 [...]

Dr. Martin Blaško has started his 3-months stay as the visiting scientist in prof. Anastasia Borschevsky group at the University of Groningen. During the visit,  his research will mainly focus on the calculations of the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM). The existence of an electron EDM would manifest itself as very small energy shifts [...]

JECS Trust approved a project of Susanta Sentupta We would like to congratulate our PhD student Susanta Sengupta for obtaining a grant by JECS Trust Fund. JECS Trust approved Susanta´s mobility project related to the “Preparation and characterization of borosilicate glass fibers by electrospinning for tissue regenaration”. His mobility will be carried out [...]

Assoc. Professor Mária Chromčíková, Ph.D. completed 1-month training stay at the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice (CZ) in cooperation with Doc. RNDr. Jana Holubová, Ph.D. The aim of the training process was to improve the competence of the researcher and to strengthen theoretical and practical knowledge [...]