Dr. Ana Sunčana Smith
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Bijenička 54
HR-10000 Zagreb
Education
2004. Doctorate in Physics, “Physical Models for Cell Adhesion”, Technishe Universität München, Germany, Supervisor: Prof. E. Sackmann
2000. Diploma in Physics at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Employment
10/2018. - Scientific Adviser, Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute
10/2012. - Professor (W2) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany, Head of PULS Group
Previous employment
07 / 2013-09 / 2018 - Senior Research Associate, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
09 / 2009-09 / 2012 - W1 Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, FAU-Erlangen, Germany
01 / 2006-07 / 2008 - Research Associate at the 1st Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Stuttgart.
Projects
2021 - CLINT Catalysis in liquid Interfaces
https://www.sfb1452.research.fau.eu/rtg-programme/
2013 - 2019 ERC Stg - 337283 MEMBRANESACT (1.500,000 EUR)
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/337283 - PI
2017-2019 Emerging Field Initiative Big Thera (80.000 EUR)
https://bigthera.fau.de/index.php/2018/11/03/big-thera-project-in-next-round-of-funding/ - associate
2017-2019 DAAD Project (FAU Erlangen-lRB Zagreb): Multi-scale modeling
"Supported Ionic Liquid Phase Catalysis", value: (16.000 Euros) / PI
2013-2018 Cluster of Excellence - EAM, FAU, Erlangen, Germany (500,000 EUR)
https://www.eam.fau.eu/ -PI
2014-2019 DFG RTG1862 Processes on Biological Membranes (200,000 EUR)
30.06.2015.-29.09.2016. MIPOMAT (270,000 EUR)
http://mipomat.irb.hr
2015-2017 HrZZ CompSoLS: MolFlex (120,000 EUR)
Awards and Achievements
2016 - Order of the Croatian Daystar for contributions to Croatian science
2013 - ERC StG 337283 MEMBRANESACT
2011 - Member of the Collegium of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2009 - Rising Star of the Excellence Cluster EAM
Classes
2013 - Professor of Theoretical Physics
FAU Nuremberg-Erlangen, Hotel Germany
2009 - Lecturer at the Postgraduate Study of Biophysics, Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Introduction to Soft Matter Physics
Featured Publications
Ziegler, Sebastian; Scheel, Thomas; Hubert, Maxime; Harting, Jens; Smith, Ana-Suncana: Theoretical framework for two-microswimmer hydrodynamic interactions // New Journal of Physics, 23 (2021), 073041, 24 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac1141
Hubert, M.; Trosman, O.; Collard, Y.; Sukhov, A.; Harting, J.; Vandewalle, N.; Smith, A.-S.: Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale // Physical Review Letters, 126 (2021), 22; 224501-1 doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.224501
Marion, Sanjin; Vučemilović-Alagić, Nataša; Špadina, Mario; Radenović, Aleksandra; Smith, Ana‐Sunčana: From Water Solutions to Ionic Liquids with Solid State Nanopores as a Perspective to Study Transport and Translocation Phenomena // Small, 17 (2021), 25; 2100777, 17 doi:10.1002/smll.202100777
Kaliman, Sara; Hubert, Maxime; Wollnik, Carina; Nuić, Lovro; Vurnek, Damir; Gehrer, Simone; Lovrić, Jakov; Dudziak, Diana; Rehfeldt, Florian; Smith, Ana-SunčanaOn the mechanical regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis // Physical review. X (2020) doi:10.1101/2021.04.10.439119
Lühr, Jennifer J.; Alex, Nils; Amon, Lukas; Kräter, Martin; Kubánková, Markéta; Sezgin, Erdinc; Lehmann, Christian H. K.; Heger, Lukas; Heidkamp, Gordon F.; Smith, Ana- Sunčana et al.Maturation of Monocyte-Derived DCs Leads to Increased Cellular Stiffness, Higher Membrane Fluidity, and Changed Lipid Composition // Frontiers in Immunology, 11 (2020), 590121, 18 doi:10.3389/fimmu.2020.590121
Publications
Books and book chapters
Book chapters
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Heger, L., Lühr, J., Amon, L., Smith, A., Eissing, N. & Dudziak, D. (2021) Six-Color Confocal Immunofluorescence Microscopy with 4-Laser Lines. U: Eli, Z. (ur.) Multiplexed Imaging Methods and Protocols. New York (NY), Springer, str. 21-30 doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-1593-5_2.
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Sengupta Kheya & Smith, A. (2018) Adhesion of Biological Membranes. U: Bassereau, P. & Sens, P. (ur.) Physics of Biological Membranes. Cham, Springer, str. 499-536 doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00630-3_18.
doi Pickl, K., Hofmann, M., Preclik, T., Köstler, H., Smith, A. & Rüde, U. (2014) Parallel Simulations of Self-propelled Microorganisms. U: Bader, M., Bode, A., Bungartz, H., Gerndt, M., Joubert, G. & Peters, F. (ur.) Advances in Parallel Computing. Volume 25: Parallel Computing: Accelerating Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). Amsterdam, IOS Press, str. 395-404.
Journal articles
Scientific and review papers
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Hilpert, F., Liao, P., Franz, E., Koch, V., Fromm, L., Topraksal, E., Görling, A., Smith, A., Barr, M., Bachmann, J., Brummel, O. & Libuda, J. (2023) Mechanistic Insight into Solution-Based Atomic Layer Deposition of CuSCN Provided by In Situ and Ex Situ Methods. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 15 (15), 19536-19544 doi:10.1021/acsami.2c16943.
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Janeš, J., Monzel, C., Schmidt, D., Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2022) First-Principle Coarse-Graining Framework for Scale-Free Bell-Like Associationand Dissociation Rates in Thermal and Active Systems. Physical review. X, 12 (3), 031030, 21 doi:10.1103/physrevx.12.031030.
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Ziegler, S. & Smith, A. (2022) Hydrodynamic particle interactions in linear and radial viscosity gradients. Journal of fluid mechanics, 943 (A29), A29 1-A29 37 doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.421.
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Wolf, P., Wick, C., Mehler, J., Blaumeiser, D., Schötz, S., Bauer, T., Libuda, J., Smith, D., Smith, A. & Haumann, M. (2022) Improving the Performance of Supported Ionic Liquid Phase Catalysts for the Ultra-Low-Temperature Water Gas Shift Reaction Using Organic Salt Additives. ACS Catalysis, 12 (9), 5661-5672 doi:10.1021/acscatal.1c05979.
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Kamal, M., Janeš, J., Li, L., Thibaudau, F., Smith, A. & Sengupta, K. (2022) Physics of Organelle Membrane Bridging via Cytosolic Tethers is Distinct From Cell Adhesion. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 750539, 12 doi:10.3389/fphy.2021.750539.
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Cvitković, M., Ghanti, D., Raake, N. & Smith, A. (2022) Crowding competes with trapping to enhance interfacial diffusion. European physical journal plus, 137 (3), 355, 6 doi:10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02571-4.
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Li, L., Kamal, M., Stumpf, B., Thibaudau, F., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2021) Biomechanics as driver of aggregation of tethers in adherent membranes. Soft Matter, D1SM00921D, 1-7 doi:10.1039/d1sm00921d.
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Stumpf, B., Nowakowski, P., Eggeling, C., Maciołek, A. & Smith, A. (2021) Protein induced lipid demixing in homogeneous membranes. Physical Review Research, 3 (4), L042013-1 doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.3.l042013.
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Birang O., S., Smith, A. & Steinmann, P. (2021) Phonon-based thermal configurational forces: Definitions and applications in rupture of semiconductors. Engineering fracture mechanics, 257, 108014, 16 doi:10.1016/j.engfracmech.2021.108014.
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Livraghi, M., Höllring, K., Wick, C., Smith, D. & Smith, A. (2021) An Exact Algorithm to Detect the Percolation Transition in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cross-Linking Polymer Networks. Journal of chemical theory and computation, 17 (10), 6449-6457 doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00423.
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Birang O, S., Park, H., Smith, A. & Steinmann, P. (2021) Atomistic configurational forces in crystalline fracture. Forces in Mechanics, 4, 100044, 23 doi:10.1016/j.finmec.2021.100044.
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Ziegler, S., Scheel, T., Hubert, M., Harting, J. & Smith, A. (2021) Theoretical framework for two-microswimmer hydrodynamic interactions. New journal of physics, 23 (7), 073041, 24 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac1141.
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Steinmann, P., Smith, A., Birang, E., McBride, A. & Javili, A. (2021) Atomistic two-, three- and four-body potentials. Spatial and material settings. Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids, 154, 104507, 25 doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104507.
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Hubert, M., Trosman, O., Collard, Y., Sukhov, A., Harting, J., Vandewalle, N. & Smith, A. (2021) Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale. Physical review letters, 126 (22), 224501, 6 doi:10.1103/physrevlett.126.224501.
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Toledo, E., Le Saux, G., Edri, A., Li, L., Rosenberg, M., Keidar, Y., Bhingardive, V., Radinsky, O., Hadad, U., Di Primo, C., Buffeteau, T., Smith, A., Porgador, A. & Schvartzman, M. (2021) Molecular-scale spatio-chemical control of the activating-inhibitory signal integration in NK cells. Science advances, 7 (24), eabc1640, 12 doi:10.1126/sciadv.abc1640.
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Sukhov, A., Hubert, M., Grosjean, G., Trosman, O., Ziegler, S., Collard, Y., Vandewalle, N., Smith, A. & Harting, J. (2021) Regimes of motion of magnetocapillary swimmers. European physical journal e, 44, 59, 12 doi:10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00065-2.
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Marion, S., Vučemilović-Alagić, N., Špadina, M., Radenović, A. & Smith, A. (2021) From Water Solutions to Ionic Liquids with Solid State Nanopores as a Perspective to Study Transport and Translocation Phenomena. Small, 17 (25), 2100777, 17 doi:10.1002/smll.202100777.
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Kaliman, S., Hubert, M., Wollnik, C., Nuić, L., Vurnek, D., Gehrer, S., Lovrić, J., Dudziak, D., Rehfeldt, F. & Smith, A. (2021) Mechanical Regulation of Epithelial Tissue Homeostasis. Physical review. X, 11, 031029, 22 doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.11.031029.
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Blackwell, R., Hemmerle, A., Baer, A., Späth, M., Peukert, W., Parsons, D., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2021) On the Control of Dispersion Interactions Between Biological Membranes and Protein Coated Biointerfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 596, 590121, 18 doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.02.078.
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Li, L., Stumpf, B. & Smith, A. (2021) Molecular Biomechanics Controls Protein Mixing and Segregation in Adherent Membranes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (7), 3699, 15 doi:10.3390/ijms22073699.
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Lühr, J., Alex, N., Amon, L., Kräter, M., Kubánková, M., Sezgin, E., Lehmann, C., Heger, L., Heidkamp, G., Smith, A., Zaburdaev, V., Böckmann, R., Levental, I., Dustin, M., Eggeling, C., Guck, J. & Dudziak, D. (2020) Maturation of Monocyte-Derived DCs Leads to Increased Cellular Stiffness, Higher Membrane Fluidity, and Changed Lipid Composition. Frontiers in Immunology, 11, 590121, 18 doi:10.3389/fimmu.2020.590121.
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Stumpf, B., Ambriović-Ristov, A., Radenovic, A. & Smith, A. (2020) Recent Advances and Prospects in the Research of Nascent Adhesions. Frontiers in physiology, 11, 574371, 16 doi:10.3389/fphys.2020.574371.
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Grebnev, G., Cvitković, M., Fritz, C., Cai, G., Smith, A. & Kost, B. (2020) Quantitative structural organization of bulk apical membrane traffic in pollen tubes. Plant physiology, 183 (4), 1559-1585 doi:10.1104/pp.20.00380.
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Kulyk, N., Berger, D., Smith, A. & Harting, J. (2020) Catalytic flow with a coupled finite difference — Lattice Boltzmann scheme. Computer physics communications, 256, 107443, 31 doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107443.
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Stepić, R., Jurković, L., Klementyeva, K., Ukrainczyk, M., Gredičak, M., Smith, D., Kralj, D. & Smith, A. (2020) Adsorption of Aspartate Derivatives to Calcite Surfaces in Aqueous Environment. Crystal growth & design, 20 (5), 2853-2859 doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00061.
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Blaumeiser, D., Stepić, R., Wolf, P., Wick, C., Haumann, M., Wasserscheid, P., Smith, D., Smith, A., Bauer, T. & Libuda, J. (2020) Cu carbonyls enhance the performance of Ru-based SILP water–gas shift catalysts: a combined in situ DRIFTS and DFT study. Catalysis Science & Technology, 10 (1), 252-262 doi:10.1039/c9cy01852b.
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Vučemilović-Alagić, N., Banhatti, R., Stepić, R., Wick, C., Berger, Mario Gaimann, Daniel, Bear, A., Harting, J., Smith, D. & Smith, A. (2020) Structural Characterization of an Ionic Liquid in bulk and in nano-confined environment using data from MD simulations. Data in brief, 28, 104794, 11 doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104794.
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Wolf, P., Aubermann, M., Wolf, M., Bauer, T., Blaumeiser, D., Stepic, R., Wick, C., Smith, D., Smith, A., Wasserscheid, P., Libuda, J. & Haumann, M. (2019) Improving the performance of supported ionic liquid phase (SILP) catalysts for the ultra-low-temperature water-gas shift reaction using metal salt additives. Green chemistry, 21 (18), 5008-5018 doi:10.1039/c9gc02153a.
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Hanževački, M., Čondić‐Jurkić, K., Banhatti, R., Smith, A. & Smith, D. (2019) The Influence of Chemical Change on Protein Dynamics: A Case Study with Pyruvate Formate‐Lyase. Chemistry : a European journal, 25 (37), 8741-8753 doi:10.1002/chem.201900663.
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Blackwell, R., Jung, D., Bukenberger, M. & Smith, A. (2019) The Impact of Rate Formulations on Stochastic Molecular Motor Dynamics. Scientific reports, 9 (1), 11491-11502 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54344-2.
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Uttinger, M., Wawra, S., Guckeisen, T., Walter, J., Bear, A., Thajudeen, T., Sherwood, P., Smith, A., Wagemans, A., Stafford, W. & Peukert, W. (2019) A Comprehensive Brownian Dynamics Approach for the Determination of Non-ideality Parameters from Analytical Ultracentrifugation. Langmuir, 35 (35), 11491-11502 doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01916.
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Ziegler, S., Hubert, M., Vandewalle, N., Harting, J. & Smith, A. (2019) A general perturbative approach for bead-based microswimmers reveals rich self-propulsion phenomena. New journal of physics, 21 (11), 113017, 19 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab4fc2.
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Hanževački, M., Banhatti, R., Čondić-Jurkić, K., Smith, A. & Smith, D. (2019) Exploring reactive conformations of coenzyme a during binding and unbinding to pyruvate formate–lyase. The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 123 (43), 9345-9356 doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06913.
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Grosjean, G., Hubert, M., Collard, Y., Sukhov, A., Harting, J., Smith, A. & Vandewalle, N. (2019) Capillary assemblies in a rotating magnetic field. Soft matter, 15 (44), 9093-9103 doi:10.1039/c9sm01414d.
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Lovrić, J., Kaliman, S., Barfuss, W., Schröder-Turk, G. & Smith, A. (2019) Geometric effects in random assemblies of ellipses. Soft matter, 15 (42), 8566-8577 doi:10.1039/c9sm01067j.
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Janeš, J., Schmidt, D., Blackwell, R., Seifert, U. & Smith, A. (2019) Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Equilibrium Dynamics and Power Spectrum. Biophysical Journal, 117 (3), 542-552 doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2019.06.036.
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Vučemilović-Alagić, N., Banhatti, R., Stepić, R., Wick, C., Berger, D., Gaimann, M., Baer, A., Harting, J., Smith, D. & Smith, A. (2019) Insights from molecular dynamics simulations on structural organization and diffusive dynamics of an ionic liquid at solid and vacuum interfaces. Journal of colloid and interface science, 553, 350-363 doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2019.06.017.
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Stepić, R., Wick, C., Strobel, V., Berger, D., Vučemilović-Alagić, N., Haumann, M., Wasserscheid, P., Smith, A. & Smith, D. (2019) Mechanism of the Water–Gas Shift Reaction Catalyzed by Efficient Ruthenium-Based Catalysts: A Computational and Experimental Study. Angewandte Chemie. International edition, 58 (3), 741-745 doi:10.1002/anie.201811627.
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Janeš, J., Stumpf, H., Schmidt, D., Seifert, U. & Smith, A. (2019) Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Static Profile and Correlations. Biophysical journal, 116 (2), 283-295 doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2018.12.003.
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Klatt, M., Lovrić, J., Chen, D., Kapfer C. Sebastian, Schaller, M. Fabian, Schönhöfer W. A. Phillipp, Gardiner, S., Smith, A., Schröder-Turk, E. & Torguato, S. (2019) Universal hidden order in amorphous cellular geometries. Nature communications, 10, 811, 9 doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08360-5.
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Baer, A., Miličević, Z., Smith, D. & Smith, A. (2019) Water in an electric field does not dance alone: The relation between equilibrium structure, time dependent viscosity and molecular motions. Journal of molecular liquids, 282, 303-315 doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2019.02.055.
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Bauer, T., Stepić, R., Wolf, Patrick , Kollhoff, Fabian, Karawacka, W., Wick, C., Haumann, M., Wasserscheid Peter, Smith, D., Smith, A. & Libuda, J. (2018) Dynamic equilibria in supported ionic liquid phase (SILP) catalysis: in situ IR spectroscopy identifies [Ru(CO)xCly]n species in water gas shift catalysis. Catalysis Science & Technology, 8, 344-357 doi:10.1039/C7CY02199B.
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Bartossek, T., Jones Nicola G., Schäfer Christin, Cvitković, M., Glogger Marius, Mott Helen R., K., Brennich Martha, Carrington Martha, Smith, A., Fenz, S., Kisker Caroline & Engstler, M. (2017) Structural basis for the shielding function of the dynamic trypanosome variant surface glycoprotein coat. Nature Microbiology, 2 (11), 1523-1532 doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0013-6.
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Bihr, T., Sadafi, F., Seifert, U., Taylor, R. & Smith, A. (2017) Radial Growth in 2D Revisited: The Effect of Finite Density, Binding Affinity, Reaction Rates, and Diffusion. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 4 (1), 1600310, 7 doi:10.1002/admi.201600310.
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Cvitković, M., Smith, A. & Pande, J. (2017) Asymptotic expansions of the hypergeometric function with two large parameters-application to the partition function of a lattice gas in a field of traps. Journal of physics. A, Mathematical and theoretical, 50 (26), 265206, 24 doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aa7213.
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Fenz, S., Bihr, T., Schmidt, D., Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2017) Membrane fluctuations mediate lateral interaction between cadherin bonds. Nature Physics, 13 (9), 906-913 doi:10.1038/NPHYS4138.
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Pande, J., Merchant, L., Krüger, T., Harting, J. & Smith, A. (2017) Effect of body deformability on microswimming. Soft matter, 13 (21), 3984-3993 doi:10.1039/c7sm00181a.
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Pande, J., Merchant, L., Krüger, T., Harting, J. & Smith, A. (2017) Setting the pace of microswimmers: when increasing viscosity speeds up self-propulsion. New journal of physics, 19, 053024, 8 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aa6e3a.
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Pickl, K., Pande, J., Köstler, H., Rüde, U. & Smith, A. (2017) Lattice Boltzmann simulations of the bead- spring microswimmer with a responsive stroke— from an individual to swarms. Journal of physics. Condensed matter, 29 (12), 124001, 11 doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa5a40.
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Kaliman, S., Jayachandran, C., Rehfeldt, F. & Smith, A. (2016) Limits of applicability of the Voronoi tessellation determined by centres of cell nuclei to epithelium morphology. Frontiers in Physiology, 7, 551-1 doi:10.3389/fphys.2016.00551.
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Monzel, C., Schmidt, D., Seifert, U., Smith, A., Merkel, R. & Sengupta, K. (2016) Nanometric Thermal Fluctuations of Weakly Confined Bio-membranes Measured with Microsecond Time-Resolution. Soft matter, 12, 4755-4768 doi:10.1039/c6sm00412a.
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Monzel, C., Schmidt, D., Kleusch, C., Kirchenbüchler, D., Seifert, U., Smith, A., Sengupta, K. & Merkel, R. (2015) Measuring fast stochastic displacements of bio- membranes with dynamic optical displacement spectroscopy. Nature Communications, 6, 8162-1 doi:10.1038/ncomms9162.
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Schmidt, D., Bihr, T., Fenz Susanne, Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta Kheya & Smith, A. (2015) Crowding of receptors induces ring-like adhesions in model membranes. Biochimica et biophysica acta : molecular cell research, 1853 (11), 2984-2991 doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2015.05.025.
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Pande, J. & Smith, A. (2015) Forces and shapes as determinants of microswimming: effect on synchronisation and the utilisation of drag. Soft matter, 11, 2364-2371 doi:10.1039/c4sm02611j.
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Bihr, T., Seifert, U. & Smith, A. (2015) Multiscale approaches to protein-mediated interactions between membranes - relating microscopic and macroscopic dynamics in radially growing adhesions. New journal of physics, 17, 083016-1 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/083016.
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Bihr, T., Fenz, S., Sackmann, E., Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2014) Association Rates of Membrane-Coupled Cell Adhesion Molecules. Biophysical journal, 107 (11), L33-L36 doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2014.10.033.
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Miličević, Z., Marrink, S., Smith, A. & Smith, D. (2014) Establishing conditions for simulating hydrophobic solutes in electric fields by molecular dynamics. Journal of molecular modeling, 20, 2359-1 doi:10.1007/s00894-014-2359-5.
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Schmidt, D., Monzel, C., Bihr, T., Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2014) Signature of a Nonharmonic Potential as Revealed from a Consistent Shape and Fluctuation Analysis of an Adherent Membrane. Physical Review X, 4, 021023-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021023.
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Shou, Q., Smith, J., Mon, H., Brkljača, Z., Smith, A., Smith, D., Griesser, H. & Hans, W. (2014) Rhodomyrtals A–D, four unusual phloroglucinolsesquiterpene adducts from Rhodomyrtus psidioides. RSC Advances, 4 (26), 13514-13517 doi:10.1039/c4ra00154k.
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Bao, H., Bihr, T., Smith, A. & Klupp Taylor, R. (2014) Facile colloidal coating of polystyrene nanospheres with tunable gold dendritic patches. Nanoscale, 6, 3954-3966 doi:10.1039/c3nr04016j.
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Brkljača, Z., Mališ, M., Smith, D. & Smith, A. (2014) Calculating CD Spectra of Flexible Peptides : An Assessment of TD-DFT Functionals. Journal of chemical theory and computation, 10 (8), 3270-3279 doi:10.1021/ct500071t.
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Pickl, K., Götz, J., Iglberger, K., Pande, J., Mecke, K., Smith, A. & Rüde, U. (2012) All good things come in threes—Three beads learn to swim with lattice Boltzmann and a rigid body solver. Journal of Computational Science, 3 (5), 374-387 doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2012.04.009.
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Schmidt, D., Bihr, T., Seifert, U. & Smith, A. (2012) Coexistence of dilute and densely packed domains of ligand-receptor bonds in membrane adhesion. Europhysics Letters, 99 (3), 38003-1 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/99/38003.
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Bihr, T., Seifert, D. & Smith, A. (2012) Nucleation of Ligand-Receptor Domains in Membrane Adhesion. Physical review letters, 109 (25), 258101, 5 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.258101.
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Brkljača, Z., Čondić-Jurkić, K., Smith, A. & Smith, D. (2012) Calculation of the CD spectrum of a peptide from its conformational phase space: The case of Met-enkephalin and its unnatural analogue. Journal of chemical theory and computation, 8 (5), 1694-1705 doi:10.1021/ct200868y.
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Čondić-Jurkić, K., Smith, A., Zipse, H. & Smith, D. (2012) The Protonation States of the Active-Site Histidines in (6-4) Photolyase. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 8 (3), 1078-1091 doi:10.1021/ct2005648.
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Merkel, R., Seifert, U., Sengupta, K. & Smith, A. (2011) Switching from Ultraweak to Strong Adhesion. Advanced materials, 23 (22/23), 2622-2626 doi:10.1002/adma.201004097.
doi Fenz, S., Smith, A., Merkel, R. & Sengupta, K. (2011) Inter-membrane adhesion mediated by mobile linkers : Effect of receptor shortage. Soft matter, 7 (3), 952-962.
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Reister, E., Bihr, T., Smith, A. & (2011) Two intertwined facets of adherent membranes : Membrane roughness and correlations between ligand-receptors bonds. New journal of physics, 13, 025003-1 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025003.
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Smith, A. (2010) Physics challenged by cells. Nature Physics, 6 (10), 726-729 doi:10.1038/nphys1798.
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Smith, A., Fenz, S. & Sengupta, K. (2010) Inferring spatial organization of bonds within adhesion clusters by exploiting fluctuations of soft interfaces. Europhysics Letters, 89 (2), 28003-1 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/89/28003.
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Smith, A. & Sackmann, E. (2009) Progress in mimetic studies of cell adhesion and the mechanosensing. ChemPhysChem, 10 (1), 66-78 doi:10.1002/cphc.200800683.
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Reister Gottfried, E., Sengupta, K., Lorz, B., Sackmann, E., Seifert, U. & Smith, A. (2008) Dynamics of Specific Vesicle-Substrate Adhesion : From Local Events to Global Dynamics. Physical Review Letters, 101 (20), 208103-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.208103.
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Smith, A., Sengupta, K., Goennenwein, S., Seifert, U. & Sackmann, E. (2008) Force-induced growth of adhesion domains is controlled by receptor mobility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (19), 6906-6911 doi:10.1073/pnas.0801706105.
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Lorz, B., Smith, A., Gege, C. & Sackmann, E. (2007) Adhesion of Giant Vesicles Mediated by Weak Binding of Sialyl-LewisX to E-Selectin in the Presence of Repelling Poly(ethylene glycol) Molecules. Langmuir, 23 (24), 12293-12300 doi:10.1021/la701824q.
doi Smith, A. & Seifert, U. (2007) Vesicles as a model for controlled (de-)adhesion of cells: a thermodynamic approach. Soft Matter, 3 (3), 275-289.
Smith, A., Lorz, B., Seifert, U. & Sackmann, E. (2006) Antagonist-induced deadhesion of specically adhered vesicles. Biophysical Journal, 90 (3), 1064-1080.
Smith, A., Lorz, B., Goennenwein, S. & Sackmann, E. (2006) Force-controlled equilibria of specific vesicle-substrate adhesion. Biophysical Journal, 90 (7), 52-54.
Smith, A. (2005) The total solute-water correlation function Forlennard-Jones particles. Fizika A, 14 (2), 187-194.
Smith, A. & Seifert, U. (2005) Effective adhesion strength of specifically bound vesicles. Physical Review. E, 71 (6 Part 1), 1902-1920.
Smith, A. & Seifert, U. (2005) Force-induced de-adhesion of specifically bound vesicles: Strong adhesion in competition with tether extraction. Langmuir, 21 (24), 11357-11367.
Smith, A., Sackmann, E. & Seifert, U. (2004) Pulling tethers from adhered vesicles. Physical Review Letters, 92 (20), 8101-8104.
Smith, A., Sackmann, E. & Seifert, U. (2003) Effects of a pulling force on the shape of a bound vesicle. Europhysics Letters, 64 (2), 281-287.
Conference proceedings papers
Scientific conference proceedings papers
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Chen, S., Gehrer, S., Kaliman, S., Ravikumar, N., Becit, A., Aliee, M., Dudziak, D., Merkel, R., Smith, A. & Maier, A. (2019) Semi-Automatic Cell Correspondence Analysis Using Iterative Point Cloud Registration. U: Handels, H. (ur.)Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2019 : Algorithmen – Systeme – Anwendungen. Proceedings des Workshops vom 17. bis 19. März 2019 in Lübeck doi:10.1007/978-3-658-25326-4_26.
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Membership in professional associations / societies
2010 – Member of the Croatian Biophysical Society
2006 – Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
2005 – Member of the Croatian Physical Society
Employment
10/2018. - Scientific Adviser, Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute
10/2012. - Professor (W2) at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany, Head of PULS Group
Previous employment
07 / 2013-09 / 2018 - Senior Research Associate, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
09 / 2009-09 / 2012 - W1 Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, FAU-Erlangen, Germany
01 / 2006-07 / 2008 - Research Associate at the 1st Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Stuttgart.