Ingo Dierking is heading the liquid crystal activities at the Department of Physics of the University of Manchester, UK. Over the years he has worked on various different aspects of liquid crystal research, such as chiral phases (cholesterics, ferroelectrics, Blue Phases), polymer stabilised LCs, growth and ordering phenomena, or topological defect annihilation. Our group is currently interested in liquid crystal refilled porous structures, solitons in liquid crystals, micro- and nanoparticle dispersions and machine learning techniques applied in liquid crystal research. We work on both thermotropic and lyotropic systems.

Web page: https://softmatter-dierking.myfreesites.net/
Email: ingo.dierking(at)manchester.ac.uk