Communications Comunicações
Invited Talks Palestras Convidadas
- Designing chemically active microswimmers, First Global Symposium on Janus Particles (on-line), October (2020).
- Self-phoretic active colloids in confined geometries, III CONIN Workshop on Systems With Competing Electrostatic and Short-Range Interactions, Lviv, Ukraine, July 2019.
- Mesoscale Studies of Ionic Vesicles with Polyhedral Geometries, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2017.
- Chemical Microswimmers: From Motion Control to Targeted Cargo Delivery, 2016 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2016.
- Guiding chemical microswimmers with patterned surfaces, MTG Fest, University of Lisboa, 27-28 June 2016.
- Catalytic Janus micromotors, Symposium on Active Particles and Microswimmers, Ringberg Castle, Germany, July 2013.
- Nematic colloids: topological defects, effective interactions, and structure formation, DCP-PhysBio Steering Committee Meeting, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv, Ukraine, May 2013.
- Capillary interactions on sessile droplets, 1st International Workshop on Complex Liquids At Structured Surfaces: Theory Meets Experiment, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, June 2011.
- Catalytic Janus micromotors, InternationalWorkshop on Nonlinear Physics and Applications, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, September 2011.
- Chemically active micron-sized self-propellers, Annual Meating of the Saxonian Research Group FOR 877: From Local Constraints to Macroscopic Transport, Meinsberg, Germany, November 2011.
- Defects structure and effective pair interactions in nematic colloids, International Workshop on Flow(ers) and Jam(mers): From Liquid Crystals to Grains, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2009.
- Complete wetting of geometrically patterned surfaces, Soft Matter at InterfacesWorkshop, Ringberg, Germany, March 2007.
Talks Palestras
- Self-phoretic active colloids in confined geometries, The 2020 Joint Conference of the Condensed Matter Divisions of EPS and the Spanish Royal Physics Society (on-line), September 2020.
- Acoustically-Powered Microspinners, 2nd Portuguese Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, Porto, 8 – 10 May, 2019.
- Acoustic field-driven rotation of chiral microplates, Flowing Matter 2018, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2018.
- Flexible Magnetic Membranes, APS March Meeting 2017, New Orleans, USA, 2017.
- Magneto-Elastic Colloidal Membranes, 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2017.
- How to knot a nematic?, 9th Liquid Matter Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014.
Posters Cartazes
- Liquid Crystal Charged Nanocolloids, 28th International Liquid Crystal Conference, 24th to 29th July 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Binary Mixture of Locally Coupled Brownian Oscillators, 2nd Portuguese Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, Porto, 8 – 10 May, 2019.
- Equation of State of Active Colloidal Particles, 2nd Portuguese Condensed Matter Physics Meeting, Porto, 8 – 10 May, 2019.
- Magneto-elastic filaments and membranes in dynamic magnetic fields, Gordon Research Conference on Complex Active & Adaptive Material Systems, Ventura, CA, 2017.
- Nematic colloids: from the structure of topological defects to effective interactions, 38th Topical Meeting on Liquid Crystals in Mainz, Germany, March 2011.
- Defects structure and eective pair interactions in nematic colloids, Soft Matter at Interfaces workshop, Ringberg, Germany, February 2010.
- Defects structure and eective pair interactions in nematic colloids, Gordon Conference on Soft Condensed Matter Physics: Soft Meets Biology, New London, NH, August 2009.
- Complete wetting of nanosculptured substrates, 23rd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS23), Genoa, Italy, July 2007.
- Interaction of a colloidal particle with a nematic-isotropic interface, Soft Matter at Interfaces workshop, Ringberg, Germany, February 2004.
- Colloidal quadrupolar interactions in 2D nematic liquid crystals, NATO Advanced
Study Institute: Computer Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces, Albena, Bulgaria, September 2002.
- Switch of the lamellar orientations in slits, Workshop on Modern Problems of Soft Matter Theory, Lviv, Ukraine, August 2000.
- Wall-induced lamellar order in microemulsions, NATO Advanced Study Institute: New Approaches to Old and New
Problems in Liquid State Theory: Inhomogeneities and Phase Separation in Simple, Complex and Quantum Fluids, Patti Marina, Italy, July 1998.
- Wall-induced lamellar order in microemulsions, Spring college on: Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics of Soft Condensed Matter, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 1998.
- Wall-induced lamellar order in microemulsions, 2nd International Workshop on: Wetting and Self-Organization in
Thin Liquid Films, Munich, Germany, March 1998.
- Amphiphilic systems in slits, Marian Smoluchowski Symposium of Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 1997.
Seminars Seminários
- Chiral topological active matter powered by ultrasound, Seminar at the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter, University of Hiroshima, Japan, January 2023.
- Designing Chemically Active "Microswimmers", Department of Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, December 2022.
- Designing chemically active microswimmers, Condensed Matter Seminar at the Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, August 2022.
- Active colloids powered by ultrasound, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, August 2019.
- Osmotic pressure and equation of state for active rotors, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, July 2019.
- Acoustically-powered microspinners, Seminar at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, November 2017.
- Acoustically-powered microspinners, Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, November 2017.
- Magneto-Elastic Colloidal Membranes, Seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, February 2017.
- Chemical Microswimmers: From Cargo Delivery to Motion Control, Seminar of the Center of Computation and Theory of Soft Materials, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, April 2016.
- Guiding Chemical Microswimmers with Patterned Surfaces, Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, April 2016.
- Chemical self-propellers: from motion control to targeted cargo delivery, Seminar of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 2014.
- Local energy conversion in catalytic Janus micromotors, Big Energy Seminar of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, February 2014.
- Catalytic Janus micromotors, Seminar of the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CNRS), Bordeaux, France, March 2013.
- Capillary interactions on sessile droplets, Departmental Seminar, Department of Physics, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil, September 2011.
- Catalytic Janus micromotors, Departmental Seminar, Physics Institute, Federal University of Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, September 2011.
- Colloidal particles in liquid crystals: topological defects, effective interaction, and structure formation, Departmental Seminar, Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, September 2011.
- Colloidal particles in liquid crystals: topological defects, effective interaction, and structure formation, Departmental Seminar, Department of Physics, Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, September 2011.
- Diffusiophoretic microswimmers, Diffraction Club Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, February 2010.
- Topological defects and effective pair interactions in nematic colloids, Departmental Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2009.
- Complete wetting of nanosculptured substrates, Departmental Seminar, Department of Complex Systems and Chemical Information Processing, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland, November 2008.
- Wetting of substrates patterned with nano-pits or nano-grooves, Seminar at the IanWark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, February 2008.
- Complete wetting of geometrically structured substrates with van der Waals attractions, Departmental Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, March 2006.
- Interaction of colloids with a nematic-isotropic interface, Departmental Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, May 2004.
- Nematic mediated pairwise colloidal interactions in 2D, Departmental Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, June 2003.
- Oil-water-surfactant mixtures in confined geometries, Departmental Seminar, Centre for Condensed Matter Physics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, March 2001.
- Amphiphilic systems in restricted geometry, Departmental Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, May 1999.
- Behaviour of confined lamellar phases, Departmental Seminar, Department of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland, March 1999.
- Effects of confined geometry for ternary surfactant mixtures, Seminar of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv, Ukraine, December 1998.
- Amphiphilic systems in slits, Departmental Seminar, Department of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw, Poland, October 1997.
- Microemulsions: what are they and how to describe them?, Seminar of the Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Lviv, Ukraine, December 1997.
- Green’s function for Liouville equation for a system of relativistic charged particles, Oral presentation on a master’s research project at the Department for Theoretical Physics, Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine, May 1996.
- Liouville equation for weakly relativistic plasma, Oral presentation on a coursework at the Department for Theoretical Physics, Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine, May 1995.
- Path integral for the Fokker-Planck equation, Oral presentation on a coursework at the Department for Theoretical Physics, Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine, May 1994.