FunGlass at FAC2025 in Smolenice

We’re thrilled to announce that researchers from the VILA Department (FunGlass) are actively participating in the 8th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics and Fractography of Advanced Ceramics, held at the historic Smolenice Castle from October 6–9, 2025.

FunGlass is represented through lectures delivered by our Joint Glass Centre VILA team members:

Dr. Ali Talimian: Mitigating Catastrophic Failure: Glasses with Adaptive Structures and Laminar Ceramics with Engineered Stress Profiles
Dr. Ali Najafzadeh: Overcoming Inverse Design Challenges: Optimizing Engineered Stress Profiles in Laminar Ceramics via ML-FEA
Dr. Avnee Chauhan: Ultra-Fast Sintering of Bixbyite-Structured High-Entropy Oxides for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Applications
Dr. Hamid Hassani: Damage tolerance and strengthening efficiency in ionexchanged glass-ceramics
Dr. Marziyeh Ghadamyari: Achieving broadband emission from K2ZnGeO4 polycrystals

The conference gathers distinguished scientists from Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and beyond to discuss the mechanics of materials, fracture behavior, and the future of advanced ceramics in structural, functional, and biomedical applications.

Hosted at the Smolenice Castle Congress Center, the event offers a unique blend of history and scientific exchange — a perfect setting for collaboration, inspiration, and innovation.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the European Union NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under projects No. 09I01-03-V04-00014/2024/VA and No. 09I03-03-V04-00196.”