Russian Liquid Crystal Society

SODRUZHESTVO

Dr. Sofia Isaakovna TORGOVA

Curricilum vitae

  • Family name: Torgova

  • First name: Sofia

  • Date of birth: 19 March 1950

  • Nationality: Russian

  • Civil status: Married, with two daugthers

  • Address (personal): Chayanova 16/28,125047 Moscow, Russia

    E-mail: torgova@online.ru

  • Address (work): Dr. Sofia Torgova, Head of the Liquid Crystal Chemical Laboratory of the State Scientific Centre of Russian Federation NIOPIK, Bolshaya Sadovaya 1/4, 101999 Moscow, Russia

  • Education and qualification:

    • 1967-1972 Student of Moscow State University (Chemical Department)

    June 1972 Graduated (Diploma) in Chemistry

    1972-1987 Junior Scientist in the Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute SSC RF NIOPIK

    April 1987 Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry (Thesis title: "Synthesis and mesomorphism of compounds containing six-member saturated carbo- or heterocyclic fragment")

    1987-1992 Scientist in the same Institute

    1992- Scientific secretary of Russian Liquid Crystal Society "Sodruzhestvo"

    1992- Senior Scientist in the same Institute

    May 1996- Head of the Liquid Crystal Chemical Laboratory in the same Institute

  • Job status: Head of the Liquid Crystal Chemical Laboratory in the same Institute

  • Scientific interests. Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystals and of light emitting materials, polarizing microscopy, dielectric and DSC investigations, thermal properties of liquid crystals, textures investigations, thermodynamics of mixtures, hydrogen bonding, dichroic dyes, cis-trans isomerization, polymer dispersed liquid crystals, orientation of liquid crystals.

  • Knowledge of languages:
    • Russian (native), English (fluently), German (can read and communicate).

  • Membership of professional bodies: 1) Member of the Board of the OOM-Lab (Orientationally Ordered Media Laboratory), established among Centro Ricerche FIAT, Politecnico di Torino, Institute of General Physics IOFRAN, Moscow, and State Scientific Centre NIOPIK, Moscow, from its foundation (September 1997); 2) Scientific Secretary and Foundator (1992) of the Board of the Russian Liquid Crystal Society Sodruzhestvo; 3) Associate member of INFM (Italian National Institute of Matter Physics), Sec. C, from January 1996; 4) Member of Italian Liquid Crystal Society (SICL) from 1994; 5) Representative of Russia in the Board of ILCS (International Liquid Crystal Society) from 2000.

  • Years within the NIOPIK: from 1972

  • Key qualifications: 1) Local Responsible of the EC INCO-Copernicus Programme PhotoCom 1998); 2) Associate to the Italian Project MURST Co-Funds 99; 3) Scientific responsible of a subcontract with the Politecnico di Torino and the LC Society Sodruzhestvo each in the frame of the Agreement between Politecnico and the Russian Academy of Sciences; 4) Member of Scientific Committee of the Conferences organized in Russia, Ukraina and Belarus.

  • Professional Experience Record: Many scientific collaborations with foreign Universities or Research Centres: f.i. Kent State University (Kent, Ohio - Prof. D. Finotello); Chalmers University of Technology (Goeteborg, Sweden - Prof. S. Lagerwall); Raman Res. Inst. (Bangalore, India - Prof. N.V. Madhusudana); University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia - Prof. S. Zumer); University of S. Paulo (S. Paulo, Brasil - Prof. A.M. Figueiredo Neto), etc.

  • Participation to School and Conferences:

    SILC Easter School on Introduction to Theory and Modeling of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals Portoroz, Slovenia, April 15 - 18, 2000 (invited lecture)

    1) Leningrad White Nights on Liquid Crystals, Leningrad, USSR, May 1991 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    2) Liquid Crystal Meeting of Sodruzhestvo, Novi Svet, Crimea, Ukraine, 5-12 September 1992 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    3) Int. Conf. Display 94, Otradnoe, Moscow, 22-26 February 1994 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    4) 1 Conferenza Nazionale SICL, Amalfi, May 1994: oral presentation

    5) XV Int. Liq. Cryst. Conf. (15th ILCC), Budapest, 3-8 July 1994

    6) 6th Scientific Session of LCS Sodruzhestvo, Moscow, Graphic Art Inst., 21-30/9/1994 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    7) Int. Crystal and Liquid Crystal Conf., Zakopane (Poland), 21-29/10/1994, poster

    8) Int. Conf. II White nights on LC, S. Petersburg, May 1995 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    9) 9th Scientific Session of LCS Sodruzhestvo, Samara, Russia, 20-23 May 1996, (Member of Scientific Committee, lecture)

    10) 10th Scientific Session of LCS Sodruzhestvo, Moscow, Russia, 20-25 October 1996 (Member of Scientific Committee)

    11) Europ. Liq. Cryst. Conf. (ECLC97), Zakopane (Poland), 2-9/3/1997, four posters

    12) II LC Workshop Iberoamericano, Pucon (Chili), dicembre 1997, invited lecture

    13) Seminar, Inst. Crystallography, Moscow (12 gennaio 1998)

    14) 3 Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana dei Cristalli Liquidi (SICL), Mondello, Palermo, 28-30 May 1998 invited lecture

    15) Int. Workshop on Liquid Crystals and Applications, Ufa, Bashkiria, 2-8 July 1998 (Member of Scientific Committee and lecture)

    16) 12th Scientific Session of LCS Sodruzhestvo, Moscow, 16 October 1998 (Member of Scientific Committee and lecture)

    17) 4th Russian Symposium on Liquid Crystalline and Related Polymers, Kliasma, Russia, 24-28 January 1999

    18) Europ. Liq. Cryst. Conf. (ECLC99), Hersonissos (Creta), 22-30/4/1999, four posters

    19) ECLC '99 Satellite Symposium on "Optics of interfaces for PDLC with and without dopants", Hersonissos (Creta), 30/4-1/5/1999, oral presentation.

    20) INFM Meeting, Catania, 13-18 June 1999.

    21) European Workshop - SICL 99 on Applications of liquid crystals, Ancona, 23-26/6/1999

    22) Int. Conf. on LC and applications, Krynica, 12-19 settembre 1999 two posters

    23) Meeting on Surface and liquid crystal optics, Nemoptic, Versailles 3-6/2/2000, oral presentation.

    24) Photonet-Photocom Joint Meeting, Madrid 8-13/2/2000. Invited lecture.

    25) XVIII Int. Liq. Cryst. Conf. (18th ILCC), Sendai (Giappone), 23-28/7/2000, four posters

    26) 4th International Meeting on Lyotropic liquid crystals, LLC 2000, 25-28/9/2000

    Ivanovo, Russia. (Member of Scientific Committee, two posters)

    27) Photonet-Photocom Joint Meeting, Amalfi 11-16 October 2000, invited lecture.

     
  • Publications: More than 70 papers in International Scientific Journals. A significant selection of 10 papers is the following:

    1. S.A.Pikin, S.I.Torgova, A.Strigazzi

    "In-plane bidimensional stripes in thin films of CCH-PCH mixtures: possible nucleation of a tilted smectic phase" , SPIE Proceed., S. Petersburg 1996, 2731, 50 (1996)

    2. L. Frunza, S. Frunza, M. Petrov, A. Sparavigna, S.I. Torgova

    "Dielectric and DSC investigations of the 4-n-substituted benzoic and cyclohexanecarboxylic acids. I. Textural changes in homologous 4-n-alkoxybenzoic acids", Mol. Mater. , 6, 215 (1996)

    3. O.Francescangeli, L.A.Karamysheva, S.I.Torgova, A.Sparavigna, A.Strigazzi

    "X-ray investigation of new isomeric oxadiazoles", Proceed. of European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC), Zakopane 1997, in Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Structure, M. Tykarska, R. Dabrowski, J. Zielinski Editors, SPIE, 3319, 139 (1998)

    4. S.I.Torgova, L. Komitov, A. Strigazzi

    "Spontaneous chiral domains in the nematic phase of the achiral trans-4-alkylcyclohexanecarboxylic acids", Liquid Crystals, 24 (1), 131 (1998)

    5. S.I. Torgova, D. Abramic, A. Strigazzi, S. Zumer

    "Dimerization in trans-4-butyl cyclohexanecarboxylic acid and in its mixture with 12% cis-isomer observed via 1H- and 2H-NMR", Proceed. of European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC), Zakopane 1997, in Liquid Crystals: Chemistry and Structure, M. Tykarska, R. Dabrowski, J. Zielinski Editors, SPIE, 3319, 201 (1998)

    6. R. Prathiba, S.I. Torgova, N.V. Madhusudana, A. Strigazzi

    Alignment transition driven by adsorption in a nematic liquid crystal forming H-bonds, Phys. Lett. A, 239, 115 (1998)

    7. S.I. Torgova and A. Strigazzi

    Hydrogen bonding and its role in the liquid crystal formation and properties,

    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 336, 229 (1999)

    8. S.I. Torgova, A. Sparavigna, and A. Strigazzi

    Chiral Textures Formed by Achiral p-Substituted Biphenylcarboxylic and Benzoic Acids,

    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 352, 111 (2000)

    9. L.A. Karamysheva, S.I. Torgova, I.F. Agafonova, A. Sparavigna, and A. Strigazzi

    Mesomorphic Oxadiazoles with Terminal Cl-Substituent,

    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 352, 335 (2000)

    10. N.V. Novoseletskii, G.N. Dorozhkina, S.I. Torgova, B.A. Umanskii

    Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals by Photo-oriented Layers

    Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 352, 27 (2000)

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