The registration for the 10th PhD Student Symposium of the Faculty of Science! The Symposium will be held on the 24th and 25th of April, at the Department of Physics faculty of Science in Zagreb (Bijenička cesta 32).

The registration is officially open, and the deadline for Abstract submission is the 20th of February 2026, via the official web page of the Symposium.

The participation at the Symposium is free.

For more information on the application and programme of the 10th Symposium, follow our website  (PhD Student Symposium) and social media on Instagram (@phdsspmf)  and Facebook (Faculty of Science PhD Student Symposium).

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Researchers from the Department of Chemistry, Josipa Sarjanović and Jana Pisk, in collaboration with scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Marta Razum and Luka Pavić, as well as Bela Fiser from the University of Łódź and the University of Miskolc, have published the paper “Exploring the Gas-Sensing Properties at Room-Temperature and Electrical Behavior of Oxalyl Dihydrazide-Derived Molybdenum Complexes” in the journal Journal of Materials Chemistry C (IF = 5.2).

Researcher Dominik Cinčić from the Department and researchers Lavanya Kumar, Sibananda G. Dash, Maura Malinska and Mihails Arhangelskis (University of Warsaw, Poland) have published an article titled Experimentally Derived Charge Density of Halogen Bonds to Heavy Pnictogens: Revealing Electronic Structure and Validating Density Functional Theory Approaches in the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society (IF 15.6).

Researchers Dominik Cinčić from the Department of Chemistry and Katarina Lisac (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia) in collaboration with researchers Luzia S. Germann and Robert E. Dinnebier (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany), Mihails Arhangelskis (University of Warsaw, Poland), Martin Etter (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany), and Tomislav Friščić (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) have published an article titled Mechanochemical Cis/Trans Isomerization of a Metal Centre Involving a Metal-Organic Halogen-Bonded (MOXB) Cocrystal in the prestigious journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition (IF 16.9).

Edi Topić and Mirta Rubčić, researchers from the Chemistry Department, in collaboration with researchers from Physics Department (Pavla Šenjug, Dario Barišić and Damir Pajić) and Ruđer Bošković Institute (Ivor Lončarić) have published the scientific publication Modulating magnetism in layered hybrid halocuprates(II): The role of constituting ions in the journal Inorganic chemistry communications (IF = 5.4).

Researchers from the Department of Chemistry, Filip Kučas, Lidija Posavec, Nikola Bedeković, Vinko Nemec and Dominik Cinčić, have published a scientific article titled “Evaluation of Azobenzene Ethers Carrying a Perhalogenated Moiety as Halogen Bond Donors by Cocrystallization with Nitrogen-Containing Acceptors” in the ACS journal Crystal Growth & Design (IF 3.4).