The 5th International Online Conference on Crystals

Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences: Belgrade, Serbia;
Dr. Željka Antić obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Technology in 2010 from the University of Belgrade. She is currently a Research Professor at the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, within the Group for Optical Materials and Spectroscopy, and serves as the Head of the Laboratory for the Synthesis of Materials and Nanomaterials at the Centre of Excellence for Photoconversion. She completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her research focuses on the development of novel and innovative approaches for the synthesis, characterization, and application of luminescent materials. She has authored over 100 scientific publications in international journals and presented extensively at international conferences, with more than 3,300 citations and an h-index of 32. Dr. Antić is also a member of the Organizing and Program Committee of the International Conference on the Physics of Optical Materials and Devices.

School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom;
Ingo Dierking received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Clausthal in Germany. After a postdoc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, he joined Chalmers University in Sweden where he was appointed docent, before joining the University of Darmstadt as lecturer and the University of Manchester in 2002 as senior lecturer. He has published more than 180 scientific papers, as well as several books, and is the 2009 awardee of the Hilsum medal, the 2016 recipient of the Samsung Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence, the 2021 recipient of the G.W. Gray Medal, and was awarded the Luckhurst-Samulski prize in 2023. Dierking is the former President of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) and the former Chair of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS). His research interests lie in the field of soft matter physics with an emphasis on liquid crystals and liquid crystal-based composites, as well as solitons and machine learning applied to soft matter.

Physics Centre of Minho and Porto Universities, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal;
Stanislav Ferdov got his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, working on mild hydrothermal synthesis and structural characterization of microporous titanosilicates. During his Ph.D. he got Marie Curie Fellowship and spent one year his research at the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography, University of Vienna, Austria. This was followed by more than two years of post-doc (synthesis and characterization of new and photoluminescent nanomaterials) at the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, CICECO, University of Aveiro. Since the beginning of 2008 he has been a Researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Minho, Portugal.