Ingo Dierking

Biography:
Ingo Dierking received his PhD in 1995 from the University of Clausthal in Germany. After a postdoc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, he joined Chalmers University in Sweden where he was appointed docent, before joining the University of Darmstadt as lecturer and the University of Manchester in 2002 as senior lecturer. He has published more than 180 scientific papers, as well as several books, and is the 2009 awardee of the Hilsum medal, the 2016 recipient of the Samsung Mid-Career Award for Research Excellence, the 2021 recipient of the G.W. Gray Medal, and was awarded the Luckhurst-Samulski prize in 2023. Dierking is the former President of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) and the former Chair of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS). His research interests lie in the field of soft matter physics with an emphasis on liquid crystals and liquid crystal-based composites, as well as solitons and machine learning applied to soft matter.

Title of the communication:
Characterizing Liquid Crystal Phases via Textures and Machine Learning