FunGlass researchers at department of Ceramic Materials Engineering at University of Bayreuth In the frame of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) two researches of FunGlass, Dr. Ivana Petríková and Dr. Milan Parchovianský, were visiting department of Ceramic Materials Engineering at University of Bayreuth during the months of November and December. Their experimental [...]

FunGlass PhD students actively participating at APVV project From 19th of November to 8th of December, 2018 our PhD student Aleksandra Nowicka, participated in the research stay at Mateis, INSA Lyon, France, in the frame of a joint bilateral project APVV project SK-FR-2017-0008 focused on corrosion and low temperature degradation of zirconia based [...]

Funglass’s first ‘graduate’ We would like to happily announce that FunGlass has its first ‘graduate’ of one year training at a partner institution: Dr. Zuzana Neščáková just completed and returned back from her long term training that she underwent at The Institute of Biomaterials at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, one of the partner institutions. The [...]

FSU Jena success at 2018 Innovation Radar Prize of the European Commission The European Commission has awarded Europe's most promising digital innovations emerging from EU funded research and innovation projects. It is with pride that we would like to inform all colleagues, friends and alumni about success of Friedrich-Schiller-University JENA, one of FunGlass partner institutions, which [...]

From 4th to 7th December 2018, Peter Otrubcak, FunGlass Project manager, participated in the Training/Networking – “V4 Project management “ organized by the Slovak Liaison Office for Research and Development (SLORD) in Brussels, Belgium. Training was dedicated to Marketing communication, Regional innovation schema, WP preparation, HR excellence in research, Open data management and Good [...]

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 [...]