Dogic Zvonimir

Short CV

Zvonimir Dogic received his BA (1995) and PhD (2001) in physics from Brandeis University, USA, and spent his postdoctoral studies at the Research Center Jülich in Germany as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow from 2001-02, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 2002-03. After an appointment at Harvard University as a Rowlatt Junior Fellow from 2003-07, he returned to Brandeis University as an assistant and associate professor (2007-2017). Now Zvonimir Dogic is professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests lie in elucidating rules that govern self-assembly of materials, with a particular emphasis being placed on the role the particle's shape and chirality play in these assembly processes.

Selected Awards

• 2011, Cozzarelli Prize for outstanding paper published in PNAS
• 2010, NSF-CAREER Award 2009 NIH Career Development Award (K25)
• 2003, Rowland Institute at Harvard - Junior Research Fellowship
• 2001, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

Research Interests

• Soft matter physics
• biophysics, self-assembly
• far-from-equilibrium active matter

Selected Publications

• Sanchez, Tim; Chen, Daniel T. N.; DeCamp, Stephen J.; Heymann, Michael; Dogic, Zvonimir: Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter. Nature 491 (7424), 2012, 431-434.

• Gibaud, Thomas; Barry, Edward; Zakhary, Mark J.; Henglin, Mir; Ward, Andrew; Yang, Yasheng; Berciu, Cristina; Oldenbourg, Rudolf; Hagan, Michael F.; Nicastro, Daniela; Meyer, Robert B.; Dogic, Zvonimir: Reconfigurable self-assembly through chiral control of interfacial tension. Nature, 2012.

• Sanchez, T.; Welch, D.; Nicastro, D.; Dogic, Z.: Cilia-Like Beating of Active Microtubule Bundles. Science 333 (6041), 2011, 456-459.

• Barry, E.; Dogic, Z.: Entropy driven self-assembly of nonamphiphilic colloidal membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (23), 2010, 10348-10353.

• Sanchez, T.; Kulic, I. M.; Dogic, Z.: Circularization, Photomechanical Switching, and a Supercoiling Transition of Actin Filaments. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (9), 2010.

• Koenderink, G. H.; Dogic, Z.; Nakamura, F.; Bendix, P. M.; MacKintosh, F. C.; Hartwig, J. H.; Stossel, T. P.; Weitz, D. A.: An active biopolymer network controlled by molecular motors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (36), 2009, 15192-15197.

• Lau, A. W. C.; Prasad, A.; Dogic, Z.: Condensation of isolated semi-flexible filaments driven by depletion interactions. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 87 (4), 2009, 48006.

• Barry, Edward; Dogic, Zvonimir; Meyer, Robert B.; Pelcovits, Robert A.; Oldenbourg, Rudolf: Direct Measurement of the Twist Penetration Length in a Single Smectic A Layer of Colloidal Virus Particles †. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113 (12), 2009, 3910-3913.

• Bendix, Poul M.; Koenderink, Gijsje H.; Cuvelier, Damien; Dogic, Zvonimir; Koeleman, Bernard N.; Brieher, William M.; Field, Christine M.; Mahadevan, L.; Weitz, David A.: A Quantitative Analysis of Contractility in Active Cytoskeletal Protein Networks. Biophysical Journal 94 (8), 2008, 3126-3136.