Dr Verena Görtz Highlights

Awards and Prizes

British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist Award, 2011
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (awarded 2009-2013)
Departmental Priming and Research Support Fund (York Chemistry Department, awarded 06-10/2008)
Best Oral Presentation Award, British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Exeter, UK (2005).
Erasmus Fellowship for foreign studies, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Laboratoire de Recherches sur la Réactivité des Solides.

‘Liquid Crystal Elastomer Particles with Optical Response Properties’, Soft Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Surrey, 17 December 2010 (invited seminar).
‘Liquid Crystal Elastomer Microspheres’, Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, USA, 14-19 June 2009 (invited poster).
‘Bent-core Nematic Bis-(phenyl)oxadiazoles’, British Liquid Crystal Society Topical Meeting on Nematic Biaxiality, University of Hull, Hull, UK, 16 January 2009 (invited lecture).
'Molecular Design of Liquid Crystals: Life beyond Device Applications', Seminar on Liquid Crystals, Chalmers University Goteborg, Sweden, 27 August 2007 (invited seminar).

'Micron-sized, Liquid-crystalline Polymer Particles’, RSC Recent Appointees in Material and Polymer Science Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 1-3 September 2010.
‘Liquid Crystal Polymer Beads’, Departmental Researchers Day, University of York, UK, 1 October 2009.
‘Liquid-crystalline Elastomer Microspheres’, Annual Conference of the British Liquid Crystal Society, Bristol, UK, 4-6 April 2009.
‘Bent-core Nematic Liquid Crystals’, RSC Recent Appointees in Materials Chemistry Networking Conference, University of Bath, Bath, UK, 2-4 July 2008.
‘Frustration in a Non-chiral Ordered Fluid’, Materials Conference MC8: Advancing Materials by Chemical Design, UCL, London, UK, 2-5 July 2007.
‘Molecular Design in the Development of V-Shaped Mode Switching Materials’, 10th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Stare Jablonki, Poland, 12-17 September 2005.
‘Enantioselective Segregation in Achiral Nematic Liquid Crystals’, Annual Conference of the British Liquid Crystal Society, Exeter, UK, 22–24 March 2005.