Project archive

HRZZ Installation Research Project (UIP-11-2013) “Multi-scale description of meso-scale domain formation and destruction”

• • Project leader: doc. dr. sc. Larisa Zoranić
  • Beginning of the project: 15. 09. 2014.
  • End of the project: 11. 12. 2017.
  • Funding: Hrvatska zaklada za znanost/Croatian Science Foundation

Project summary

In this project, different types of structuring in water and other solutions will be studied: from clustering to micelle formation to lipid bilayers. The main idea is to find the common physical principles which would describe the behavior of these ordered structures on the molecular and cellular level. The goal is to investigate the stability of clusters and associations and define the mechanisms of domain formation and destruction upon the introduction of a third component into ordered mixtures. The research will have two main topics: the ordering in multi-component molecular solutions and the behavior of biological membranes in the interaction with antimicrobial peptides. The research methods are molecular dynamics computer simulations, alongside the integral equation theory and experimental measurements of systems of interest.

HRZZ “Projekt razvoja karijera mladih istraživača – izobrazba novih doktora znanosti” – CSF Fellowships for Doctoral Students

• • Mentor: dr. sc. Larisa Zoranić
  • Doctoral fellow: mag. phys. Martina Požar
  • Beginning of the project: 1. 1. 2015.
  • Duration of the project: 4 years
  • Funding: Croatian Science Foundation

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

• CEEPUS network CIII-SI-1312-02-1920 2023- Water – a common but anomalous substance that has to be taught and studied
• CEEPUS network CIII-SI-1312-01-1819 (Umbrella): Water – a common but anomalous substance that has to be taught and studied
  
  • Coordinating institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (leader: Janez Cerar)
  • Partnering institutions:
    • University of Innsbruck,Institute of Physical Chemistry (leader: Thomas Loerting)
    • University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science (leader: Davor Kovačević)
    • University of Split, Faculty of Science (leader: Larisa Zoranić)
    • Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Science (leader: Jan Jirsák)
    • Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry (leader: Jitka Krouská)
    • Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Science (leader: Dominik Heger)
    • University Sts.Cyril and Methodius – Skopje, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (leader: Ljupčo Pejov)
    • University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology (leader: Jaroslav Katona)

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

• Croatian-French program “Cogito – Hubert Curien partnership” for 2015./2016
• • collaboration with the Laboratoire de physique théorique de la matière condensée, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
  • project leaders: dr. sc Larisa Zoranić and dr. sc. Aurélien PereraCroatian-French program “Cogito – Hubert Curien partnership” for 2015./2016.

• Project for joint funding of scientific projects as a part of Croatian-Slovenian collaboration 2016./2017.
  • collaboration with the Faculty of chemistry and chemical technology, University of Ljubljana
  • project leaders: dr. sc Larisa Zoranić and dr. sc. Tomaž Urbič