Zorana Zeravcic wins fellowship at Harvard
Former FOM-oio Dr. Zorana Zeravcic has received a George F. Carrier fellowship at Harvard. This prestigious grant allows her to do two years research, with a possible extension of one more year.
Her current research is about directed self-assembly of complex systems. She performs numerical simulations of collections of various building blocks. In this way she tests different design rules for self-assembly and explores the stability of equilibrium structures. At the moment she plans to continue working on the theory and simulations of self-assembly problems in close collaboration with experimental groups at Harvard. "Thanks to the faculty at Harvard SEAS and Physics, the research atmosphere is very dynamic, with exciting soft matter research projects appearing continuously. I am looking forward to all the future collaborations enabled by this fellowship!", says Zeravcic.
About Zorana Zeravcic
Zeravcic studied physics at the University of Belgrade, where she graduated in July 2006. Then she began a PhD in the group of Wim van Saarloos (current FOM Director) in Leiden. With her thesis "Vibrations in Materials with Granularity" she won the C.J. Kok Prize for the best thesis of 2010. After her promotion she started working as a postdoc with Michael Brenner at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University.