Morning cup of cocoa offered by Saint ‘Mikulas’ FunGlass stands not only for ‘functional’ but also for FUN – as a proof, this morning we got together for a morning cup of cocoa and a cake offered by ‘Saint Mikulas’ (pronounced like ‘Meekulash’). The customs related to the day of St Nicholas have [...]

2nd part of FunGlass school 2018 successfully completed Following-up on the 1st part of FunGlass school, we are gladly reporting that we successfully organized the 2nd half of this important FunGlass event! FunGlass school took place in premises of Hotel Most Slavy in Trencianske Teplice during November 28 - 30, 2018. Like in [...]

Reserachers´ career development at FunGlass Centre It is our pleasure to announce that our colleagues, Robert Klement, PhD. and Mária Chromčíková, PhD. were awarded titles of “Associate Professor” in the field of Anorganic technology and materials at the meeting of Scientific Board of Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín held on November 29, 2018. [...]

Prof. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) in the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2018 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials, at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and scientific board member of FunGlass, has been included in the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2018 ( hcr.clarivate.com) list, published by Clarivate Analytics. The list contains [...]

Dr. Wolfgang Wisniewski - visiting researcher at FunGlass This week we welcomed Dr. Wolfgang Wisniewski who will spend two weeks with FunGlass focusing on EBSD analysis. Dr. Wisniewski is a scientist who worked in the group of Prof. C. Rüssel based in Jena, Germany from 2010-2018. After receiving a diploma in engineering (materials [...]

2nd Annual Meeting of International Board It is with pleasure that we can report on 2nd annual meeting of International Board (IAB) held on November 8, 2018 in Trencin, Slovakia. The meeting was led by prof. Dušan Galusek, the Director of FunGlass, who described Centre´s research activities including information about ongoing research projects, publications, [...]

New colleague joining FunGlass It is our pleasure to announce that the administration department of FunGlass has expanded! As of November Ms. Monika Šandrejová joined us to become a member of EU Office team. Ms. Šandrejová will be responsible for financial management and dissemination activities within CeGlass project. Her most recent job experience [...]

Interview with Professor Dušan Galusek for The Slovak Spectator The director of FunGlass Centre Prof. Dušan Galusek gave the interview for The Slovak Spectator- the only one Slovak English-language newspaper. Read about the Slovak glass scientists, their success in EU schemes... the whole article will be published on November 12th https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20951211/slovak-glass-scientist-succeeded-in-eu-schemes.html [...]

Corrosion of dental materials at FunGlass Dr. Helen Reveron from Mateis, INSA Lyon, France, visited FunGlass on October 22-24, in the frame of a joint bilateral project APVV project SK-FR-2017-0008 focused on corrosion and low temperature degradation of zirconia based dental materials. During the meeting with the FunGlass project leader, prof. Galusek, researcher [...]

Art and science overlapping On October 22, the FunGlass centre was visited by Mr. Patrik Illo, a renowned Slovak glass designer and the head of the Department of glass design of the VSVU in Bratislava. He was accompanied by Ms. Aleksandra Stencel, a glass designer from Poland. Together with the centre director, and [...]