Dr Antonina Smirnova

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Name: Dr Antonina Smirnova
PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Place of Birth: Ivanovo, Russia
Address: Department of Chemistry
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
Telephone: +44 (0)1904 432563
Email: as553@york.ac.uk
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Education 1998 Ivanovo State University (Russia) Bio-Chemistry Department; Speciality
1995 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. Usol-tseva
1978 Secondary School (Ivanovo, Russia) Secondary Education

Employment History 2005 - 07 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of York, UK (Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, 2 years)
2003 Invited Researcher, Makromoleculare I, Universität Bayreuth, Germany (DFG - project, 2 months)
2003 - 04 Postdoctoral researcher, Makromoleculare I, Universität Bayreuth, Germany SFB 481, Project A4 -Orientierbarkeit in Blockcopolymeren mit ionischen Flüssigkristallinen Bereichen, 1 year)
2003 Senior staff scientist, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia (Permanent position)
2001 - 02 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Exeter, UK, (Royal Society/NATO Fellowship programme)
2000 - 03 Research worker, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia
1999 Junior Research Worker, Laboratory of Liquid Crystals, Ivanovo State University, Ivanovo, Russia

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