Dr Ljiljana Fruk
Reader in BioNano Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge
About me
Dr Ljiljana Fruk completed her studies in chemistry at the University of Zagreb and obtained PhD in biospectroscopy of DNA from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
She was then awarded Humboldt Fellowship followed by Marie Curie Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research in enzyme reconstitution and nanomaterial biofunctionalisation in Professor C Niemeyer’s group at the University of Dortmund. After being group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for seven years, she took on the lectureship in Bionanotechnology at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Her research interest is the use of bio- and nano-elements to design materials for catalysis and healthcare applications. This involves the development of new types of light-responsive structures, DNA nanostructuring and design of biopolymer-based drug nanocarriers.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Publications
Bionanotechnology: Concepts and Applications(Opens in a new window), February 2021, Cambridge University Press.
Chapter on Future Architecture in The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture,(Opens in a new window) August 2019, Routledge.
Molecular Aesthetics(Opens in a new window) (edited with Peter Weibel), October 2013, MIT Press.