Rudolf Podgornik (born August 27, 1955 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) is a physicist. His fields of research are: physics of soft matter, physics of

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fluids, physics of macromolecular interactions, Lifshitz theory of Casimir - van der Waals dispersion interaction, Casimir effect, physics of

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, polymers and polyelectrolytes and physics of DNA,

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and viruses.

Career

Podgornik and coworkers discovered the line hexatic phase in the phase diagram of the concentrated long fragment DNA solution

The line hexatic mesophase appears to be the preferred packing form of long DNA in bacteriophages. He is the author of more than two hundred scientific paper

and a coeditor of books: "Electrostatic Effects in Soft Matter

(Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, 1–13 October 2000, Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 46 ), together with Christian Holm and Patrick Kekicheff and "Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter

(Pan Stanford Publishing, March 31, 2014) with David S. Dean, Jure Dobnikar and Ali Naji. Together with D. Harries, J. DeRouchey, H. H. Strey, and V. A. Parsegian, he coauthored the chapter "Interactions in Macromolecular Complexes Used as Nonviral Vectors for Gene Delivery", in the leading textbook of gene therapy: "Gene Therapy: Therapeutic Mechanisms and Strategies

N. Smyth – Templeton, Marcel Dekker, New York (2008), Third Edition. Rudolf Podgornik is currently Professor emeritusbr>
at the Physics Departmen

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana. In the past he was professor of physics at the Physics Departmen

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and professor of biophysic

at th
School of medicine
University of Ljubljana. He was also Chair professor at the School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijin

and adjunct professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (KITS) at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijin

and at the Wenzhou Institute of the UCAS (WIUCAS

He is the former head of the research program Biophysics of polymers, membranes, gels, colloids and

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, financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS

and a Scientist emeritus at the Theoretical Physics Department of the Jozef Stefan Institut

in Ljubljana. Until 2010 he was an Adjunct researcher at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M

From 2011 to 2016 he was also adjunct professor at th
Physics Department
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and from 2013 to 2017 an adjunct professor at the Materials Science & Engineering Department at the Case Western Reserve University, Clevelan

He is a former coeditor-in-chief of th
Journal of Biological Physics
published by Springer, a former member of the Editorial board of the journal Physical Review Ebr>
published by the

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and of the journa
Scientific Reports
http://www.nature.com/srep/about/editorial-board] published by Nature-Springe

and a former Advisory Editor of the European Biophysics Journal (EBJ) published by Springer Nature on behalf of the European Biophysical Societies Association (EBSA

He spent several terms as a panel member of the ''
Starting grants panel
'' of the ''
European Research Council
established by the ''
European commission
.

Selected publications

* R. Podgornik, H.H. Strey, K. Gawrisch, D.C. Rau, A. Rupprecht and V.A. Parsegian: Bond orientational order, molecular motion and free energy of high density DNA mesophases, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93, 4261-4266 (1996

* V. Lorman, R. Podgornik and B. Zeks, Positional, Reorientational, and Bond Orientational Order in DNA Mesophases, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 218101-

* M. Mkrtchian, V.A. Parsegian, R.Podgornik, W.M. Saslow, Universal Therma Radiation Drag on Neutral Objects, Physical Review Letters 28 November 2003 Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 220801 (2003

* R. Podgornik, D. Harries, J. DeRouchey, H. H. Strey, and V. A. Parsegian, Interactions in Macromolecular Complexes Used as Nonviral Vectors for Gene Delivery, in Gene Therapy: Therapeutic Mechanisms and Strategies, N. Smyth – Templeton, Marcel Dekker, New York (2008), Third Editio

* R.H. French, V. A. Parsegian, R. Podgornik et al. Long Range Interactions in Nanoscale Science, Reviews of Modern Physics, 82, 1887 (2010

* A. Siber, A. Losdorfer Bozic and R. Podgornik, Energies and pressures in viruses: contribution of nonspecific electrostatic interactions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 3746–376

* A. Naji, M. Kanduč, J. Forsman, R. Podgornik, Perspective: Coulomb fluids—weak coupling, strong coupling, in between and beyond, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 150901 (2013

* M. Ghodrat, A. Naji, H. Komaie-Moghaddam, and R. Podgornik, Strong coupling electrostatics for randomly charged surfaces: Antifragility and effective interactions, Soft Matter 11, 3441-3459 (2015

* R.Garćes, R. Podgornik, V. Lorman, Antipolar and anticlinic mesophase order in chromatin induced by nucleosome polarity and chirality correlations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 238102 (2015

* D.S. Dean, Bing-Sui Lu, A.C. Maggs, R. Podgornik, Nonequilibrium tuning of the thermal Casimir effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240602 (2016

* T. Markovich, D. Andelman, R. Podgornik, Charged Membranes: Poisson-Boltzmann theory, DLVO paradigm and beyond, Chapter 9 in: Handbook of Lipid Membranes, ed. by C. Safynia and J. Raedler, Taylor & Francis (2020

* L. M. Woods, D. A. R. Dalvit, A. Tkatchenko, P. Rodriguez-Lopez, A. W. Rodriguez, R. Podgornik, A Materials Perspective on Casimir and van der Waals Interactions, Reviews of Modern Physics 88 045003 (2016

* M.A. Aksoyoglu, R. Podgornik, S.M. Bezrukov, P.A. Gurnev, M. Muthukumar, V.A. Parsegian, Size dependent forced PEG partitioning into channels: VDAC, OmpC and Alpha-Haemolysin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 113 9003-8 (2016

* Roya Zandi, B. Dragnea, A. Travesset, R. Podgornik, On virus growth and form, Physics Reports, 847, 1-102 (2020

* Yael Avni, D. Andelman, R. Podgornik, Charge regulation with fixed and mobile charged macromolecules, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 13 70-77 (201

* Broer, W. and Lu, Bing-Sui and Podgornik, R., Qualitative chirality effects on the Casimir-Lifshitz torque with liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. Research, 3 033238(2021

Awards

In 1986-1989 he was awarded the ''
Fogarty fellowship
, at the Laboratory of Structural Biology, Division of Computer Research and Technology, ''
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
. In 1992 he received a postdoctoral fellowship of the

' at Physical Chemistry 2 of the ''
Chemical Center (Kemicentrum) at Lund University
. In 1995 he was the recipient of the ''Division of computer research and technology Director's award'' for "recognition and appreciation of special achievement" (''
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
). In 1999 he was the recipient of the
Zois Award
', which is the highest prize for scientific excellence in Sloveni

In 2002 he was awarded the ''
CNRS Chercheur Associe
fellowship at the ''
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides - UMR 8502 Universite Paris Sud 11
. In 2008 he was a co-recipient of the
Martin Hirschorn IAC Prize
', made possible by the generosity of Martin Hirschorn, given once every two years and funded by the INCE Foundation. In 2015 he was awarded the
Joliot chair
' fellowship of the ''
Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI)
. In 2016-2017 he was awarded the

' and became a ''
Nirit and Michael Shaoul Fellow
, within the framework of the
Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel
. From 2017 to 2019 he became a ''Foreign expert'' in the

' program of the Chinese government at the
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
' in Beijing. In 2020 he received the Key project grant of the ''

.

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