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Meet your tutor
Dr Ljiljana Fruk
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Ljiljana completed her studies in chemistry at the University of Zagreb and obtained PhD in biospectroscopy of DNA from 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 Prof. C. Niemeyer’s group at the University of Dortmund. After being group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for 7 years, she took on the lectureship in bionanotechnology at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Her research interest is the use of bio and nanoelements to design materials for catalysis and healthcare applications. This involves 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 Cambridge Philosophica Society.
