Dr. Roberto Berardi (IT) now an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry
at University of Bologna,.
Dr. Roberto Berardi (IT) now an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry
at University of Bologna,.
Dr. Francesco Spinozzi (IT) moved with a permanent position
as a Researcher at Università di Ancona, Physics, working with Prof.
Paolo Mariani and Prof. Franco Rustichelli. Now Associate Professor at Department
of Life and Environmental Sciences - DiSVA, Università Politecnica delle
Marche, Ancona.
Dr. Garth Shilstone (UK) Deuterium NMR studies of ordering
of solutes in nematic solvents. Garth came from the group of Prof. Luckhurst
at the University ofSouthampton (UK) and after his postdoc in Bologna he moved
to the US to work with Prof. G. Drobny in Seattle. He is now back in UK.
Dr. Alfred Hagemeyer (DE) EU supported fellow, from the group
of Prof. Spiess, University of Mainz (DE), then in Industry with BASF. 13C NMR
studies of orientational order in nematics.
Dr. Andrew P.J. Emerson (UK) 
Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics computer
simulations of Gay-Berne systems, from Univ. of Southampton, UK (group of Prof.
Luckhurst). Following a period at ISM CNR, Bologna, and then with a software
firm, Andy now has a permanent position at Supercomputing Center CINECA, Bologna,
where he is particularly involved with scientific software support, in particular
for INSTM users.
Dr. Elisabet Berggren from Stockholm Univ.(Sweden), first with
a Swedish Natural Science Research Cuncil , then a EU
fellowship (CHBICT930679 4 Aug 93- Aug 95) went back to Lund University
and then moved to the EU Centre (Ispra, IT)
Dr. Riccardo Tarroni (IT) became a researcher in Theoretical
Chemistry in Bologna University working with Prof. P. Palmieri and he is now
an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry of Università di Bologna,
teaching in Rimini.
Dr. Marc van Zandvoort
(NL) Fluorescence Depolarization studies of Chlorophyll. Originally from Prof.
Y.Levine group in Utrecht, he was in Bologna as a EU HCM fellow. Now Marc is
at the Department of Biophysics, Maastricht University , NL
Dr. Martin
Bates (UK) from
Univ. of Southampton, UK; (group of Prof. Luckhurst). Martin went to work with
Prof. Daan Frenkel at FOM (NL) and has then moved back to Southampton, with
a Royal Society University Research Fellowships. Martin is now (from 2006)
at York University, UK.
Dr. Joachim Stelzer (DE), From the group of Prof. Trebin, Physics, Stuttgart
University (ITAP), DE, Density Functional Theories, EU
Marie Curie fellow (FMBICT972434 January 1998-December 1998). Joachim has
moved to Industry (SAP) in Germany
Dr. Yves Lansac (FR),
from
Nice, FR : Computer simulations of Gay-Berne systems with charges. (April 1998-
May1999). Yves went to Boulder Colorado to work with Dr. M. Glaser and Prof.
N. Clark and then spent a period in the group of Prof. Goddard III. Yves is
now a Lecturer at Univ. Tours (FR).
Dr. Reiner
Memmer (DE), U. Kaiserslautern, DE. (October-November 1999).
Dr. Dirk Blunk (DE), Icarus fellow, TU Berlin, DE (March 2000).
From TU, Berlin (group of Prof. K. Praefcke), Dirk is now in Organic Chemistry
at Cologne University.
Dr. Reiner
Memmer (DE), Icarus fellow, U. Kaiserslautern, DE. (March 2000,
July-August 2001). Now works in Industry.
Dr. Alekos
Vanakaras (GR), TMR fellow, from the group of Prof. Photinos, University
of Patras, Greece: Theory of Dipolar Liquid Crystal Systems (March-September,
2000; May-October 2001) . Alekos is now a Professor at the University of Patras,
GR, Dept. of Materials Science.
Dr. Timothy Payne (UK): (December
2001-October 2002). Tim come from the group of Prof. G.R. Luckhurst in Southampton
and was in Bologna as a EU-TMR postdoctoral fellow, working on computer simulations,
particularly calculations of viscosity in liquid crystals. Tim has then moved
to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the group of Prof. R. Hashim and has now become
a Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of University of Malaya.
Dr. Corrado Bacchiocchi (IT) (June 2000-June 2003) After his
Ph.D. in Bologna, on the computer simulation of energy transfer in model liquid
crystals and a postdoctoral period with Prof. G.R. Luckhurst, in Southampton,
UK, Corrado has been working on fluorescence energy transfer in muscle systems
in the group of Prof. S. Lehrer at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute,
Boston, MA USA. Back in our group in Bologna he has been mainly engaged in spin
probe ESR investigations of nematics with dispersed silica. Corrado has been
working for INSTM (July 2003-15
July 2006) in charge of liasoning between the INSTM
Direction and the Scientific Sections and Research Units, as well as of INSTM
web site etc. Corrado was back in the group (July 2006-2007) and then he moved
to Università di Camerino.
Dr. Luca Muccioli (IT) : (Jan 2003- July 2005)) Luca has spent
a fellowship ("assegnista di ricerca") period in the group after completing
his PhD at the end of 2002.
Dr.Dirk
Blunk (DE) :
(May24- June24, 2004) Dirk is at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University
of Cologne and has visited us under the HPC-Europa scheme, to collaborate on
Liquid crystal modelling.
Dr.Baltzar
Stevensson (SE): (Jan 2004-Dec
2004). Maximum Entropy and Computer simulations of flexible molecules in liquid
crystals. Baltzar is from the Physical Chemistry Division, Stockholm University
(group of Prof. A. Maliniak) and was supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundations
(Stockholm).
Dr. Andrius Sazonovas (LT): (Oct 2004-April
2005) Modelling and computer simulation of some selected liquid crystalline
systems. Andrius, after getting his degree in Chemistry from the University
of Vilnius (Lithuania) has moved to the Department of Chemistry, University
of Warsaw (Poland), group of Prof. E. Gorecka and was in Bologna with support
from the EU TMR network FAMOUS (Fullerene bases advanced materials for optoelectronic
utilizations).
Dr. Ozhan Kayacan (TR) (9 May- 4 August, 2005). Dr . Kayacan
is from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye,
Manisa, Turkey, and has been visiting us with a fellowship from TUBITAK, the
Turkish Science and Research Council with a project on Tsallis statistics applied
to Liquid Crystals.
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): (July 2003-
September 2005, July 2006, July 2007) Computer simulations of liquid crystal
elastomer models. Gregor has received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University
of Ljubljana (group of Prof. S. Zumer) and was here as a EU FULCE TMR postdoctoral
fellow and also within the Slovenia-Italy Bilateral ST MAE, project F9: Lattice
Simulations of Liquid Crystal Elastomers project.
Davide Micheletti (IT): (Assegnista Jan 2006-Feb 2006)
Modelling and Computer simulations of polymerization in liquid
crystals and of liquid crystal elastomers. During his PhD in our group (Jan
2003-Dec 2005) Davide has spent a few months (Nov.2004- Feb.2005) in SARA, Amsterdam
as HPC-Europa Fellow. Davide now works in Industry.
Dr.
Ozhan Kayacan (TR)(5 June
2006- 30 June 2006) Dr . Kayacan
is from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye,
Manisa, Turkey. He has visited us a first time with a Tubitak fellowship and
now he has been visiting us with a HPC-Europa fellowship with a project on Tsallis
statistics applied to Liquid Crystals.
Dr. Sholto McLaren (UK). (July-August 2006) Sholto came from
the group of Prof. Neville Boden and Richard Busby in Leeds University where
he had completed his PhD on the synthesis and modelling of discotics. He had
previously been visiting us with a HPC-Europa grant (Sept. 1 - Nov.4 2005).
He was here as a EU FULCE TMR postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Philippe Marsal (FR): (20 Feb 2007-20 March 2007) Philippe
completed his Ph.D. at Université
de Provence in Marseille (2002), then he has been a postdoctoral fellow in Mons
then moved to Leuven as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been visiting us within
the HPC-Europa scheme.
Ms.
Saeedeh Shoarinejad (IR) (27
April 2007- 27 September 2007)
Ms. Shoarinejad is from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Isfahan
University (IR) and has visited our group with the support of a fellowship from
Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, to work on Liquid Crystals.
Dr. Ilaria Vecchi: 
(Jan 2007-Mar
2008) ESR studies of liquid crystal based complex systems.
Ilaria has completed her Ph.D.
in our group (Jan 2004-Dec 2006) and currently has been supported by a NAIMO
postdoctoral grant.
Dr. Patrick Brocorens (BE): 
(Jan
2008-Mar 2008) Patrick
has visited our lab from the Service de Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux,
Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, collaborating on modelling and simulations
of materials for organic electronics (NAIMO).
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): 
(26 June-25
July 2008) and (Apr-Sept. 2018) Computer simulations of liquid crystal elastomer
models. Gregor is visiting from the Physics Department, University of Ljubljana
(group of Prof. S. Zumer) to continue the collaboration started in the past
few years, within the Slovenia-Italy Bilateral ST MAE, project F9: Lattice Simulations
of Liquid Crystal Elastomers project.
Dr.
Ozhan Kayacan (TR)
(
8-27 July 2008) Dr . Kayacan is
from the Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye, Manisa,
Turkey. He is visiting us with a HPC-Europa fellowship with a project on Tsallis
statistics applied to Liquid Crystals.
Dr.
Corrado Bacchiocchi. 
Corrado is working on the modelling of Energy transfer
in condensed phases (supported by EU6
project MODECOM, August 2008-15
June 2009), as well as on ESR and simulations. Corrado is now at Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche della Facoltà di Scienze e Tecnologie di Camerino.
Ms. Emel Kilit 
(1
Dec 2008- 30 Nov 2009) Computer Simulations and Phase
Transitions in Liquid Crystals. Emel Kilit has been visiting us from the Department
of Physics, Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara, Turkey, where she is Research Assistant
and completing her Doctorate.
Dr. Sai Preeti Gouripeddi,
(15 June 2009- 30 Nov 2010) 
Models of biaxial liquid crystal systems, supported by the BIND project. Sai
is from the group of Prof. V.S.S. Sastry, Department of Physics, University
of Hyderabad, India, where she has completed her Ph.D in 2009. and has
visited before our group in the framework of the Italian-Indian Bilateral collaborative
project (19 Oct 2006- 12 Dec 2006) . Sai has been working
on biaxial phases and defects with the support of EU project BIND.
Dr.
Gregor Skacej (SI): (15-22 May
2011) Gregor was visiting from the Physics Department, University of Ljubljana
to continue the collaboration started in the past few years, particularly on
Liquid Cystal Elastomers.
Dr.
Yoann Olivier (BE) (Feb
2010- May 2010, Aug 2011- Sep 2011)
Yoann is from the group of Prof. J. Cornil,
Dept. Chimie des Matériaux Nouveaux, Université de Mons-Hainaut,
Belgium and has visited us within the HPC-Europa framework.
Ms.
Elisabeth Fraczek (DE) (Sep 2011- Sep 2012) 
Elisabeth
has a master in Physics from Hamburg and has visited us from the group of Prof.
Paul Kouwer, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen
(NL) to work on computer simulations.
Julien
Idé (FR)
(4 June 2012 - 7 July 2012) Julien is from
the
group of Prof.
F. Castet,
Université de Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Bordeaux,
France and has visited us with a
HPC-Europa2 grant. Juline is now in Milan Poytechnic, working with Prof. Guido
Raos .
Dr. Domenico Summa: (June-July
2013;Jan 2012- Dec 2012) 
Domenico
has obtained his Ph.D. in Siena (2006) on topics of Molecular Medicine under
the supervision of Prof. Paolo Di Simplicio and Prof. Niccolai Neri (for computational
studies) and after a first postdoc in Siena, has held a postdoctoral fellowship
in our group for computer simulation studies within the EU7 project BIND (Mar
2008-Dec 2010) then ONE-P (Jan 2011- Dec 2011) and MINOTOR (2012) and for a
few months also in 2013..
Dr.
Gabriele D'Avino (June 2011 - July 2013)
Theoretical
modelling and computer simulations. Gabriele has obtained his Master (2006)
and PhD (2010)
in Materials Science in the group of
Prof. Anna Painelli, working on the theoretical modeling of cooperativity arising
from electron-phonon coupling, charge tranfer and electrostatic interactions
in functional molecular materials and has been working in our group as assegnista,
also with the support of the ONE-P FP7 project. Gabriele is now (October
2013-2014) in Liege, Belgium, supported by a BE-IPD-COFUND
grant, working with Prof.
Matthieu Verstraete and will move to U. Mons in 2015.
Dr. Antonio Pizzirusso (Jan
2012-Dec 2013) 
Modelling
Surfaces and their interactions with liquid crystals. After completing his Ph.D.(Jan
2006-Dec 2008) and a period supported by MODECOM (Jan 2009-May
2009), Antonio is now "Assegnista di Ricerca" in our
group (UNIBO-BIND May 2009-Apr 2011), INSTM-ONE-P
(May 2011-Dec 2011), MINOTOR
and Assegnista di Ricerca. Antonio has moved in
2014 to the University of Salerno, working in the group of Prof. Giuseppe Milano.
Dr. Isabella Miglioli
.
Isabella has got her first degree (Laurea) in Industrial Chemistry with top
marks, with the supervision of Prof. A.
Hockoeppler and working, mainly at ETH Zurich, on a thesis on the Supramolecular
aggregation of amphiphilic peptides. Isabella has been collaborating with us
first within the EU project NAIMO and then within PRRIITT Nanofaber
(22 May 2006 - 31 Dec 2006)
and has done her Ph.D. (Jan
2007 - Dec 2009) in our group working
on ESR and computer simulations. Isabella has then spent postdoctoral periods
in the lab with an "assegno di ricerca" first UNIBO-BIND (Jan
2010 - Jun 2012)
then UNIBO (Jul
2012 - Jun 2016).
Mattia
Palermo
(Jan 2015-Jun 2016) 
Mattia
has obtained his Laurea and Ph.D. in our group working particularly on atomistic
molecular dynamics simulations of smectics. Mattia has recently moved to a position
in Industry (Oct 2016).
Dr.
Luca Muccioli:
Modelling
and Computer simulations of liquid crystals and functional organic materials,
mainly at atomistic and molecular resolution level, organic semiconductors and
proteins. Luca has been working on the modelling of various organized nanosystems,
particularly discotics, within the EU6 project NAIMO
(August 2005-March 2008), then on various atomistic modelling and simulations
projects with the support of MODECOM (May 2008-Sep 2009), MINOTOR (Dec 2009-May
2012) and PRIN. Luca has then moved (Sep. 2014-Sep 2016) to Univ. of Bordeaux
(FR) with a Junior chair of excellence (assistant professor) in "Theoretical
modeling at the frontier between soft matter and organic electronics".
He has returned to Bologna with a Reseacher position (RTDB) Sep 2016 and he
is now (2019) Associate Professor.
Dr. Matteo Ricci: (Jan
2012- Jun 2019).
Modelling and Computer simulations of liquid crystals; Grid computing; computer
graphics Matteo is also looking after our GPU cluster (see Facilities). After
completing his PhD (in Dec. 2003)
Matteo has continued with various postdoctoral fellowships:
a "Liquid Crystals" PRIN (Jan
2004-Dec 2004), a FIRB-GRID ( Jan 2005-Dec 2006), MIUR PRIN and MODECOM EU (May
2007-Sep 2009), then MINOTOR (-Dec 2010), ONE-P (-Dec 2011), UNIBO (-DEC 2015),
then EXTMOS.
Dr. Otello Roscioni
(Jan 2012 - Jun 2019) 
Modelling
Surfaces and their interactions with liquid crystals. Otello has obtained his
Laurea in Chemistry in Rome (2005) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry
in the group of Prof. John Dyke, University of Southampton (2009)
and has been working in our group first supported by the regional PROMINER project
(June 2009 - Apr 2010), then
by EU FP7 INSTM ONE-P (May 2010-Dec 2011) and MINOTOR and has then be supported
by EXTMOS.
Dr.
Lara Querciagrossa
(Jan 2015-Jul 2019 ) 
Lara after her first degree in our group has continued for a Ph.D. with Modelling
and Simulation projects and is now doing reaserch on atomistic and coarse grained
simulations and chiral systems as a postdoct in the group. Lara From Sept. 2019
is working at CINECA Supercomputing Centre, Bologgna.