Maria Helena Godinho Author

Pawel Pieranski works at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Orsay, France. He has published a two-volume textbook on liquid crystals, written in collaboration with Patrick Oswald, and has conducted extensive research in many different areas of the field of liquid crystals.

Maria Helena Godinho is Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Between 2016 and 2020 she was Vice President of the International Liquid Crystal Society. In 2019 she was awarded the “Fréedericksz Medal” by the Russian Liquid Crystal Society.