Liquid crystals are beautiful to study, foremost in the polarizing microscope. To promote the sharing of this beauty, the ILCS features a continuously on-going monthly liquid crystal art contest. Each month, the most striking liquid crystal-related picture submitted to us is selected to be specially featured on the ILCS website.

You are encouraged to send us your picture for consideration. If your contribution is selected it will be presented throughout the following month together with explanatory information on the Featured Art of the month page as well as on the home page of the ILCS website. In addition, you and your research will be also presented. Afterward, your picture is transferred to the ILCS art gallery where our visitors can enjoy it also in the future. If your contribution is not selected immediately, it will remain in competition for the following months.

Current Jury

The ILCS Featured Liquid Crystal Art of the Month is selected by a very small jury, just one or two people. In 2024 Doctor Nerea Sebastián at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, will do the selections. A new selection is done five days before the end of every month, such that the new Featured Liquid Crystal Art of the Month page can be prepared in time for the start of the month in which they apply.

Nerea Sebastián obtained her PhD in Physics at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Nowadays, she is a Research Associate at the Department of Complex Matter at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Her work focuses on polar nematic liquid crystals, both ferromagnetic nematic systems and ferroelectric nematic materials.

Previous Juries