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Many congratulations to Aniruddh Murali, who won one of the two poster prizes at the Liquid Crystals Gordon research conference!
Exciting trip of Francesca to Germany, where she gave an invited talk at the German Liquid Crystal Society meeting and a talk at the Max Planck institute for dynamics and Self Organization
March 2025 - Congratulations to Aniruddh Murali, who has successfully defended his PhD! First PhD from the Serra group at SDU!
Major update: in summer 2024 we had 3 graduations: Zhaofei Zheng, Alvin Modin and Sean Hare have defended their PhDs. It is bittersweet but the Serra group at JHU is now all gone! Congratulations to all!
April 2024 - We welcome Maria Bloksgaard as Specialkonsulent at SDU! Maria is incredibly experienced in cell biophysics and is working with us to study the alignment of cells on topographic patterns.
June 2023 - Lots and lots of liquid crystals at the Liquid Crystal Gordon research conference, where we will present two posters and two talks
June 2023 - Our paper on tunable disclination lines has just been published on PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300833120
June 2023 - Congratulations to Kirsten Endresen, who brilliantly defended her PhD thesis!
May 2023 - Check out this new paper on particles in liquid crystals, in which Francesca was involved: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.2c09203
April 2023 - Francesca Serra has been invited to deliver the Sturgeon lecture at the British Liquid Crystal society conference in Glasgow.
March 2023 - Kirsten Endresen, Sean Hare and Alvin Modin are presenting their works at APS March Meeting in Las Vegas.
March 2023 - Dr. Prasoon Awasthi has joined our group in Odense from IIT Kharagpur. Welcome!
July 2022- I am looking for a postdoc researcher ! Here is the announcement.
I am looking for an excellent researcher with expertise in cell biology. The researcher can be a physicist with expertise in biology or a biologist with expertise in physics. I am looking for a collaborator to work on a project funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation on the role of liquid crystalline alignment in cell (as an example, you can read our paper here).