We have long term international and national collaborations in the field of Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers with:
• Prof. Bostjan Zalar, Prof. Tomaz Apih, Prof. Anton Gradisek, Prof. Maja Remskar, Prof. Irena Drevenšek-Olenik and their respective research groups, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (link to the IJS institute);
• Dr. Alexej Bubnov, Dr. Ing. Vera Hamplova, Prof. Milada Glogarova, Dr. Vladimira Novotna and their collaborators, Department of Dielectrics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic (link to the Institute of Physics).
• Dr. Sergey V. Dvinskikh and his collaborators, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Prof. Ewa Gorecka and her research group, Laboratory of Physicochemistry of Dielectrics and Magnetics, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (link to Gorecka's group).
• Prof. Pedro José Sebastião, Departamento de Física/CeFEMA, Instituto Superior Técnico Física da Matéria Condensada, Lisbon, Portugal.
Other active collaborations:
(Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers)
• Prof. Oriano Francescangeli, Dr. Francesco Vita and their collaborators, Dipartimento di Scienze e Ingegneria della Materia, dell'Ambiente ed Urbanistica and CNISM, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• Dr. Giuseppe Romano, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, BOSTON, MA, USA.
(Food and Agricultural products)
• Dr. Laura Pucci and her research group, Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
• Prof. Luca Sebastiani and his research group, Istituto di Scienze della Vita, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy.
• Prof. Anton Gradisek and collaborators, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Prof. Mecit H. Oztop and collaborators, Middle East Technical University, Department of Food Engineering, Ankara, Turkey.
(Education & Communication of Chemistry)
• Prof. Paolo Milazzo and his group, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• Prof. Claudio Sergio Pogliano, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
• Dr. Giovanni Villani, CNR, Pisa, Italy.
Past collaborations:
(Magnetic Nanoparticles & MRI)
• Prof. Zvonko Jaglicic, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu and her research group, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.
• Prof. Michela Tosetti and her collaborators, Fondazione Imago 7, (Missione - IMAGO7), Calambrone, Pisa, Italy.
(Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers)
• Prof. Geoffrey Luckhurst, Department of Chemistry, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom.
• Prof. Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Department of Chemistry, Academy of Science in Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
• Prof. Edward Samulski, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• Prof. Ronald Y. Dong, Department of Physics & Astronomy, British Columbia University, Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, Canada.