Aleksandra Radenovic

Aleksandra Radenovic (born in 1975 in Croatia) is a Swiss and Croatian biophysicist. Her research focuses on the development of experimental tools to study single-molecule biophysics. She is a professor of biological engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology.[1][2]

Aleksandra Radenovic
Aleksandra Radenovic in 2007
Born1975 (age 47–48)
CitizenshipSwitzerland
Croatia
Academic background
EducationPhysics
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
University of Lausanne
ThesisDevelopment of low temperature atomic force microscope for biological applications (2003)
Doctoral advisorGiovanni Dietler
Other advisorsJan Liphardt
Academic work
DisciplineBiological engineering
Biophysics
Nanofluidics
Microscopy
Cell biology
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsSingle molecule biophysics
Solid State Nanopores
2-D materials
Optical tweezers
Second-harmonic generation
Super-resolution microscopy
Websitehttps://lben.epfl.ch/

Career

Radenovic studied physics at the University of Zagreb, where she wrote her Master thesis on Raman spectroscopy of beta-carotene. She then joined Giovanni Dietler's Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter, then located at University of Lausanne, and in 2003, she graduated with a PhD on cryo atomic force microscopy.[3][4] For postdoctoral studies she went to work at University of California, Berkeley with Jan Liphardt.[5] In 2008, she became an assistant professor at EPFL where she established the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology.[2] In 2015, she was promoted as an associate professor.[1]

Research

Radenovic's area of research is the development of experimental techniques for the study of molecular and cell biology making use of biosensors and optical imaging. In particular, she is interested in single-molecule biophysics.[6][7]

Her research follows three main trajectories. First, she employs nanopores applied on suspended 2D material membranes, standard silicon-nitride membranes, and in glass nanocapillaries to study and manipulate single molecules.[8][9][10] Then, Radenovic studies the function of single molecules, especially protein and nucleic acid interactions, via optical tweezers, optical wrench system, anti-Brownian electrokinetic trap, and a combination of nanopores or nanocapillaries with optical tweezers.[11][12][13] Finally, based on single molecule localization microscopy, she designs super-resolution optical microscopes to extract quantitative information on single molecules.[14][15][16]

Selected publications

References
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  3. Radenovic, Aleksandra (2003). Development of low temperature atomic force microscope for biological applications (Thesis). OCLC 85233283. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  4. Libioulle, Laurent; Radenovic, Alexandra; Bystrenova, Eva; Dietler, Giovanni (2003-01-24). "Low noise current-to-voltage converter and vibration damping system for a low-temperature ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscope". Review of Scientific Instruments. 74 (2): 1016–1021. Bibcode:2003RScI...74.1016L. doi:10.1063/1.1533100. ISSN 0034-6748.
  5. "Liphardt Lab". liphardtlab.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  6. "Aleksandra Radenovic". EPFL Online People Directory.
  7. "Research Topics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  8. Feng, Jiandong; Graf, Michael; Liu, Ke; Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Dumcenco, Dumitru; Heiranian, Mohammad; Nandigana, Vishal; Aluru, Narayana R.; Kis, Andras; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2016-08-11). "Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators". Nature. 536 (7615): 197–200. Bibcode:2016Natur.536..197F. doi:10.1038/nature18593. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 27409806. S2CID 4447903.
  9. Liu, Ke; Feng, Jiandong; Kis, Andras; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2014-03-25). "Atomically Thin Molybdenum Disulfide Nanopores with High Sensitivity for DNA Translocation". ACS Nano. 8 (3): 2504–2511. doi:10.1021/nn406102h. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 24547924.
  10. Macha, Michal; Marion, Sanjin; Nandigana, Vishal V. R.; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2019-07-30). "2D materials as an emerging platform for nanopore-based power generation". Nature Reviews Materials. 4 (9): 588–605. Bibcode:2019NatRM...4..588M. doi:10.1038/s41578-019-0126-z. ISSN 2058-8437. S2CID 199466502.
  11. Feng, Jiandong; Liu, Ke; Bulushev, Roman D.; Khlybov, Sergey; Dumcenco, Dumitru; Kis, Andras; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2015-09-21). "Identification of single nucleotides in MoS2 nanopores". Nature Nanotechnology. 10 (12): 1070–1076. arXiv:1505.01608. Bibcode:2015NatNa..10.1070F. doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.219. ISSN 1748-3387. PMID 26389660. S2CID 8087282.
  12. Kayci, Metin; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2015-11-12). "Single florescent [sic] nanodiamond in a three dimensional ABEL trap". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 16669. Bibcode:2015NatSR...516669K. doi:10.1038/srep16669. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4642320. PMID 26559890.
  13. "Full Page Reload". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  14. Feng, Jiandong; Liu, Ke; Graf, Michael; Dumcenco, Dumitru; Kis, Andras; Di Ventra, Massimiliano; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2016-03-28). "Observation of ionic Coulomb blockade in nanopores". Nature Materials. 15 (8): 850–855. Bibcode:2016NatMa..15..850F. doi:10.1038/nmat4607. ISSN 1476-1122. PMID 27019385.
  15. Comtet, Jean; Grosjean, Benoit; Glushkov, Evgenii; Avsar, Ahmet; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Vuilleumier, Rodolphe; Bocquet, Marie-Laure; Radenovic, Aleksandra (2020-05-25). "Direct observation of water-mediated single-proton transport between hBN surface defects". Nature Nanotechnology. 15 (7): 598–604. arXiv:1906.09019. Bibcode:2020NatNa..15..598C. doi:10.1038/s41565-020-0695-4. ISSN 1748-3387. PMID 32451503. S2CID 195316901.
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