Curriculum Vitae of Z. Dogic

Zvonimir Dogic has obtained his B.A. from Brandeis University in spring of 1995 with a major in Physics. For his senior thesis he has worked on liquid crystalline phase behavior in virus suspensions under the supervision Prof. Seth Fraden. In fall of 1996 he joined the same group as a doctoral student. He has defended his thesis entitled "Phase behavior of rod and rod/polymer mixtures" in January of 2001. He qualified for a Postdoctoral fellowship from the Humboldt foundation and has joined the Soft Matter Department at the Solid State Physics Institute of the Forschungszentrum Jülich in April 2001.

Selected Publications of Z. Dogic

1. Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden,
   Development of model colloidal liquid crystals and the kinetics of the isotropic -smectic transition,
   accepted by Proc. R. Soc. Lond (2000).
2. Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden,
   Cholesteric phase in virus suspensions,
   Langmuir 16, 7820 (2000).
3. Dogic, Z., A.P. Philipse, S. Fraden, and J.K.G. Dhont,
   Concentration dependent sedimentation of colloidal rods,
   J. Chem. Phys. 113, 8368 (2000).
4. Dogic, Z., D. Frenkel, and S. Fraden,
   Enhanced stability of layered phases in parallel hard-spherocylinders due to the addition of hard spheres,
   Phys. Rev. E 62, 3925 (2000).
5. Adams, M., Z. Dogic, S.L. Keller, and S. Fraden,
   Entropically driven microphase transitions in mixtures of colloidal rods and spheres,
   Nature 393, 349 (1998).
6. Dogic, Z. and S. Fraden,
   Smectic phase in a colloidal suspension of semiflexible virus particles.
   Phys. Rev. Letts. 78, 2417 (1997).