PhD, 1st April 2021 Jacques Azevedo Peixoto obtained his master’s degree in nanotechnology and telecommunication from Ecole Normal Superieur, France. He is interested in the bottom-to-top assembly in liquid crystal to broaden the library of possibilities and increase the impact of such material. He is currently occupying tuning boundary conditions and/or using external stimuli such […]
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Visiting Researcher, 24th June 2024 Danyang Wan obtained his PhD (major in organic chemistry) from Sichuan University (SCU, China) in December 2016 and his major was Organic Chemistry. His doctoral research mainly focused on oxidative cyclization of (hetero)aromatic C−H bonds and internal alkynes to construct π-conjugated heterocycles.In March 2017, he joined Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research
PhD, 1st of October 2024 Ivan obtained his master’s in Molecular Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and completed his master project in the University of Florence (Italy) where he worked on polymers and copolymers with redox properties for energy-storage and opto/electro applications. Then, he developed his PhD in organic chemistry
Post-doc, 1st July 2023 Anjali completed her post-graduate studies in material science from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR, India), followed by a joint PhD from the University of Parma (Italy) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa) where she worked on host-guest based supramolecular polymers for early-stage damage detection in composite
Post-doc, 1st July 2023 Xiuhu Zhao received his PhD from South China University of Technology (SCUT, China) in June 2023. His major is Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). His doctoral research mainly focused on novel ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals and nonlinear optics. His research interests include Ferroelectric Materials, Liquid Crystals, Nonlinear Optics, Metamaterials &
Jacques becomes the prize-winning face of HIM at the SPIE conference! All of the HIM family congratulates our PhD student Jacques for his performance at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference in Strasbourg. His research regarding liquid crystal optics and photonics devices and turned heads at the conference, and he was awarded the second prize in
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The HIM group congratulates Mert, Pengrong and Duygu for their new publications and top-of-the-line covers! The HIM group is very proud to announce that its PhD candidates, Mert Astam, Pengrong Lyu and Duygu Polat, have recently published papers in the Matter, Nature Communications, Chemistry Europe and Extreme Mechanics Letters journals; this is some outstanding productivity!
Professor Broer becomes a double doctor! The legacy of the HIM group is built upon the grand achievements of our founders and forebearers! As Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This definitely applies for the HIM group, hence we take every opportunity to
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Samuël A. M. (Sam) Weima PhD, 9th January 2023 Sam Weima obtained his masters degree in chemical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He is interested in device integration and exploring new ideas with interdisciplinary cooperation. He is currently occupied with applying machine learning to the development of interactive materials. A fun fact about Sam
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