My Student Octavia Ailsworth presented her research work “Analyzing cholesteric liquid crystals' properties and their disordered helical textures“ in the Session AA05: V: Undergrad Research I.
Octavia did a fantastic job, I am very proud of her. With her talk, she made my day, week, month, and year.
You can find the abstract for the talk here
Presented the invited talk “Shape-morphing of topological liquid crystal elastomer kirigami” within the session “D13: Liquid Crystal Defect Cores: Order Parameters, Regularization, and Stabilization”.
Find the abstract here.
The article “Shape Morphing by Topological Patterns and Profiles in Laser-Cut Liquid Crystal Elastomer Kirigami“ was published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations to all authors!
I had the opportunity to present my research in a Colloquium at Haverford College. Thank you to Prof. Karen Masters and everyone in the Department for inviting me. It was a refreshing experience.
I was recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences at Lincoln University of Missouri with this year award on “Excellence in Performance for New Faculty.”
I am very grateful and honored by this award. I was not expecting to win anything during these trying pandemic times.
Thanks to Lincoln University, The College of Arts and Sciences, my students (my main motivation to excel) and the colleague(s) that nominated me.
Last but not least, congratulations to Dr. Manish Singh, also winner of this award.
The awards luncheon will take place on August 17, 2022.
Presented the talk “Light-driven liquid crystal elastomer kirigami: fluttering with splay and topology”. Find the abstract in the bulletin of the American Physical Society (APS) here.
The article “Ordering hard-sphere particle suspensions by medium crystallization: Effect of size and interaction strength“ by V. Gimenez-Pinto was published as a letter in Physical Review E.
To check out the article, click here.
It has been really hard to move research forward during these pandemic years.
Thus, I am very happy to get this manuscript out!
I received the Undergraduate New Investigator Award by American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) for the research proposal “Modeling Anisotropic-Ordered Polymers and Elastomers”. The two-year awarded funding is $55,000.00.
Attended this fully-online workshop for “new“ Physics and Astronomy faculty, organized by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
From May 17 to June 18, 2021, I attended the fully-online program: The Physics of Elastic Films: from Biological Membranes to Extreme Mechanics, at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP) UC Santa Barbara
This KITP program was a useful research retreat filled with interesting lectures, a Slack channel for participant interaction and free time to dedicate to our projects.
I am grateful to the organizers for having me as part of this summer cohort!
Attended the DSOFT Workshop on “Topological Data Analysis.”
Also, presented the talk “Custom made actuation driven by smooth yet complex liquid crystal director microstructures.“
Find a link to the abstract in the bulletin of the American Physical Society (APS) here.
Please join me for the LU-MRRL virtual talk "All about Cholesterol and its Cholesteric Friends."
Commonly, when we talk about cholesterol we assign it a negative connotation. However, is cholesterol such an evil compound? Get to know the cholesterol molecule, its role within our bodies and lives, and how it has helped in the development of some mind-blowing technology advances.
Watch anytime: https://youtu.be/jUhdC90Wsjc.
Check the announcement by the MRRL here
Again thanks to Prof. Christine Boston for organizing this outreach event.
Had a great time serving as a judge and listening to various presentations by undergraduate researchers at the East Central Illinois (ECI) American Chemical Society (ACS) Undergraduate Research Conference. For visiting this virtual research conference, click here.
I am happy to see these type of initiatives moving forward and enhancing undergraduate research training. Thank you to the organizers Rebecca Ulrich and Selena Hernandez!
10:00AM - 11:00AM CET
Presented the virtual talk “Modeling hybrid soft materials: from research to living life and everything in between” as part of the Professional Student Seminar Series at the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University.
https://www.kent.edu/amlci/news/dr-vianney-gimenez-pinto-professional-student-seminar
I really enjoyed sharing my research and career advice tips with students. Thank you to Chathuranga Prageeth Rajapaksha for inviting me!
4:00PM - 5:30PM CET
Participated in an Academia Career Panel for students/postdocs at Columbia University along with Prof. Jennifer Robinson (The University of Kansas), Prof. Aditya Dutta (University of Delaware), Prof. Mariam Aly, (Columbia University) and Prof. Eugene Wu (Columbia University).
Event was chaired by Sandra Hoffberg (Columbia University), and included moderated questions as well as live questions from the audience. A big thanks to Amanda Kelly, Anna Womack and Ericka Peterson for organizing this event online!
Please join me on a Virtual Lecture part of the Lincoln University - Missouri River Regional Library Lecture Series to discuss the Science behind a Beer.
Cheers to you!
https://www.mrrl.org/…/virtual-lumrrl-lecture-series-foamy-…
Live QA via Zoom
Monday, April 20th, 2020
7:00pm - 8:30pm CET
A Special Thanks to Prof. Christine Boston for organizing this Lecture Series!
Despite March Meeting cancelation due to well-informed Covid-19 concerns, thousands of physicist around the world continue reaching out and sharing their research online. Among those, The DSOFT division self-organized into several informal virtual March Meeting sessions.
I had the chance to present the talk “Ordering hard-sphere particle suspensions by medium crystallization: Effect of size and interaction strength,“ at the DSOFT Virtual session on Directed/Self-Assembly.
You can also find the abstract (here) and presentation (here) as listed in the APS March Meeting Scientific Program.
A big thanks to the Soft Matter community for taking this great initiative. Particularly to Prof. Karen Daniels for taking the lead coordinating this heroic endeavor.
Presented the talk “Modeling Anisotropic Hybrid Soft Materials“ to a highly creative and interdisciplinary audience.
I had a great time during my visit to Lincoln and Jefferson City! A big thanks to Prof. Michael Scott for inviting me!
Gimenez-Pinto and Ye, “Patterning order and disorder with an angle: Modeling single-layer dual-phase nematic elastomer ribbons,“ was published online in RSC Advances. Find the article here.
Presented the seminar:
“Dynamic modeling of advanced hybrid soft materials: How running experiments on a computer create fantastic results and a little bit of “magic”?”
I had a wonderful time meeting everyone at SUNY Geneseo. It was a wonderful and energizing experience! Thanks to Prof. Charlie Freeman and Prof. Aaron Steinhauer for inviting me!
Spent two days listening talks at the APS March meeting and presented the talk “Patterning order and disorder with an angle: Modeling dual-phase nematic elastomer ribbons” on Thursday 03-07-2019.
Enjoyed a wonderful scientific program from outstanding professors. Also presented the poster “Dynamic modeling of advanced hybrid soft materials,” along with students/postdocs and attendants to the 2018 MEPHisTO Summer School.
Thanks to the organizing committee for preparing such energizing program. Above all, thank you for your sponsorship! More details about this school can be found here.
This year, colleague and collaborator Hillel Aharoni was awarded the International Liquid Crystal Society’s Early-career award Michi-Nakata. Many Congrats!!!
I am very honored and grateful to have our on-going work modelling a motorsport-shaped actuator, my name and face featured in his award lecture along with outstanding researchers as Y. Xia, S. Yang and R. Kamien.
You can find Hillel’s Michi-Nakata award lecture “Making Faces: Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets” here. Enjoy!
Presented the talk "Dynamic modeling of advanced hybrid soft materials" to colleagues in the BNT/MNF team at the Mesa+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente.
Thank you again to the research group as well as Prof. Dr. Nathalie Katsonis and Prof. Dr. Tibor Kudernac for the opportunity to chat about my work and foster collaborations.
I really enjoyed visiting the University of Luxembourg, talking with colleagues and presenting the talk "Dynamic Modelling of Advanced Hybrid Materials" at the Research Unit Seminar.
A big thanks to Anshul Sharma, Larry Honaker and Prof. Jan Lagerwall for their hospitality!
I had a great time visiting colleges and friends at the Collective Effects and Soft Matter Laboratory at ESPCI, Paris.
Also, I had the opportunity to give the seminar "Dynamic Modeling of Advanced Hybrid Materials" to their energetic research group.
Thank you to Dr. Teresa Lopez-Leon for hosting!
I had the outstanding opportunity for a research visit to the group of Prof. Dr. Nathalie Katsonis at University of Twente, Netherlands.
This has been a very energizing experience for learning about active bio-inspired materials, moving research forwards and living for a couple of months the European lifestyle.
I do not have words to express how grateful I am to Prof. Katsonis, her group and cluster (BNT/MNF), and the University of Twente for this time here.
Modeling 3-D chiral nematic texture evolution with electric switching, Gimenez-Pinto, and Selinger (2018)
Manuscript can be found here
This time, ILCEC landed in the USA. I am quite grateful for the opportunity to present my work, chat with colleagues and collaborate. Moreover, thank you for your sponsorship.
You can find more info on this conference here.
Gave an hour-long seminar with research updates to lab mates and colleagues at the Kumar Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University