This past week, a group of us from ESMP went to this year's International Liquid Crystal Conference in Québec City, Canada! Jan gave a plenary invited talk, while Yong and Churchill got to present contributed oral talks and Yosuke presented a poster. Apart from that, it was a great time to reconnect with friends and colleagues and discover the latest research in the liquid crystal field while also enjoying a unique part of Canada.

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As our first post for 2025, it is our pleasure to welcome our newest group members, Dr. Tadej Emeršič and Mr. Churchill Agoni, to ESMP!

Originally from Slovenia, where he completed his Ph.D., Tadej comes to us from the University of Chicago, where he worked as a postdoc in the group of Juan de Pablo. He joins us on the INVISIMARK project, a project in cooperation with the Luxembourg Ministry of Defense, in which he'll be working with us for (at least) the next year and a half on the use of CSRs for secure identification purposes.

Churchill comes from Nigeria and joins us after his Master's studies in Photonics at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. He'll be working on the SHADOW project, a collaboration with the University of Ljubljana, on studying ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals under confinement.



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