Sofia Torgova

Biography

1. Family name: Torgova

2. First name: Sofia

3. Date of birth: 19 March 1950

4. Nationality: Russian

5. Civil status: Married, with two daughters

6. Address (personal): Dr. Sofia Isaakovna Torgova
Chayanova 16/28, 125047 Moscow, Russia
E-mail: sofia.torgova@mail.ru

7. Education and qualification:
1967-1972 Student of Moscow State University (Chemical Department)
June 1972 Graduated (Diploma) in Chemistry
1972-1980 Junior Scientist in the Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute “NIOPIK”
1980-1983 Junior Scientist in the Institute of Organic Chemistry Academy of Science
1983-1988 Junior Scientist in the Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute “NIOPIK”
1987 Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry (Thesis title: "Synthesis and mesomorphism of compounds containing six-member saturated carbo- or heterocyclic fragment")
1988-1992 Scientist in the same Institute
1992- till present time Scientific secretary of Russian Liquid Crystal Society "Sodruzhestvo"
1992-1996 Senior Scientist in the same Institute
1996-2004 Head of the Liquid Crystal Chemical Laboratory in the same Institute
2004 - till present time Senior researcher in Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
2006 - till present time Secretary of Society for information displays, Russian Chapter

8. 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, electro-optical inverstigation of ferroelectric liquid crystals.

9. Membership of professional bodies: 1) Member of the Board of the OOM-Lab (Orientation ally Ordered Media Laboratory), established among Centro Recherche FIAT, Politecnico di Torino, Institute of General Physics IOFRAN, Moscow, and State Scientific Centre NIOPIK, Moscow, from its foundation (September 1997); 2) Scientific Secretary (from 1992 till present time) of 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) 2000-2004; 6) Secretary of Society for information displays, Russian Chapter (from 2006 - till present time)


10. 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 di Torino and the Russian Academy of Sciences; 4) Member of Scientific Committee of the Conferences organized in Russia, Ukraina and Belarus.

11. 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.
12. Publications: More than 95 papers in International Scientific Journals.