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 [...]

Institute of Biomaterials, FAU Erlangen: As part of the continuing training activities of the project FunGlass, the Project manager - Peter Otrubcak visited Institute of Biomaterials, FAU Erlangen, Germany. The purpose of the visit was to study Good Laboratory Practices of this advanced partner of the project. Peter has thoroughly enjoyed extended consultations [...]

FunGlass participation in DGG annual meeting in Bayreuth From May 27 till May 30 the researchers and PhD students from FunGlass team participated at the DGG annual meeting in Bayreuth, Germany, jointly organised by the German Glass Society, Czech Glass Society and Slovak Glass Society. The FunGlass team included the FunGlass director prof. [...]

Visit from the National Center for Scientific Research (France) at FunGlass Dr. Matthieu Allix and his colleague from CNRS, Orléans - Laboratoire CEMHTI, France, visited FunGlass on May 23, 2018. During their meeting with the FunGlass director, prof. Galusek, they discussed opportunities for future collaboration, and visited the laboratories of the Centre. [...]