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Smirnova Antonina Igorevna

PhD in physics

Senior staff scientist

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Address:

Ivanovo State University

Nanomaterials Research Institute

Ermak str., 39. 153025 Ivanovo, Russia

Phone work:

+7 (4932) 37-08-08

E-mail:

antonia_smirnova@mail.ru

  

EDUCATION 

1995

Ivanovo State University (Russia) Bio-Chemistry Department

1998

Laboratory of Liquid Crystals at Ivanovo State University (Russia) and Institute of Organic Chemistry at Technical University of Berlin (Germany) PhD title: -The influence of molecular structure variation of disc-like phthalocyanine, inositol, benzene derivatives and organic solvents on lyotropic mesomorphism of their binary systems. Supervisor: Prof. N.V. Usoltseva

  EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 

since 2008 up to now

Senior staff scientist, Nanomaterials Research Institute, Ivanovo State University, Russia

2007 – 2008

Senior staff scientist, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Russia

2005 – 2007

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of York, UK (Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, 2 years)

2003

Invited Researcher, Makromoleculare I, Universit?t Bayreuth, Germany (DFG – project, 2 months)

2003 – 2004

Postdoctoral researcher, Makromoleculare I, Universit?t Bayreuth, Germany SFB 481, Project A4 -Orientierbarkeit in Blockcopolymeren mit ionischen Fl?ssigkristallinen Bereichen, 1 year)

2003

Senior staff scientist, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia (Permanent position)

2001 – 2002

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Exeter, UK, (Royal Society/NATO Fellowship programme)

2000 – 2003

Research worker, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia

1999

Junior Research Worker, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia

  

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Lyotropic mesomorphism, chromonics, disc-like mesogens, synthesis of calamitic and polycatenar mesogens, binary or ternary phase diagrams, X-ray analysis of mesogens

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

 

Experimental methods: NMR, FTIR, UV-VIS, optical polarizing microscopy, chromatography (HPLC, GPC, TLC), spectrometry (MS), thermal analysis (DSC, TGA)

Computers: Windows XP, MS Office, internet, Origin 7 Pro, SciFinder, ChemOffice, MestRe-C, Delta NMR, ChemWin, HyperChem, ISIS Draw.

Languages: Russian (mother tongues), English (basic).

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

List of Publications in the Word format


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