Olgica Bakajin is a scientist working at Porifera, Inc.

Biography

Bakajin completed her B.A. in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University. She then worked at

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

. In 2009 she founded Porifera.

Research

Carbon nanotube A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with diameters typically measured in nanometers. ''Single-wall carbon na ...

technology for water desalination from Bakajin's company, Porifera, has been licensed to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Honours and awards

* 2007 - NanoTech Briefs Award * 2010 -

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of American Physic ...

for "contributions to the development of new instrumentation for studies of protein folding and for fundamental understanding of transport and selectivity at nano-scale, with implications to understanding of membrane channels."

Publications

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References

External links

Porifera, Inc.
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakajin, Olgica Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the American Physical Society University of Chicago alumni Princeton University alumni Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff