Marčelja Stjepan
Academic titles:
- Doctor of Sciences
- professor Doctor of Sciences
Membership in the Academy:
- corresponding member – Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences (1/30/1997 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
Stjepan Marčelja, a Croatian and Australian physicist, was born in Zagreb on September 22, 1941. He graduated in physics from the Faculty of Science (PMF) in Zagreb in 1964, where he worked as an assistant and assistant professor from 1964 to 1978 with a one-year stay at Freie Universität in Berlin and the Australian National University. Meanwhile (1967-1970), he attended postgraduate studies at the University of Rochester (USA), where he received his master’s degree, and for a time was a research associate at the University of Utah (1970–1971). At the Australian National University, he was a research associate and senior research associate (1978-1993) and a full professor from 1994 to 1995. In 2002-2004, he was the director of the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb. He also stayed at universities in France (Paris), Sweden (Gothenburg) and Israel (Tel Aviv). He deals with superconductivity, liquid crystals, biophysics of membranes and visual cortex and physical chemistry of ion solutions. He has published over 80 scientific papers, many of which are widely cited in prestigious foreign journals. His most important scientific results are The arrangement of chains in liquid crystals and two-layer membranes, and the results of the research Representation of images in the primary visual cortex. He won valuable prizes: Eastman Kodak Award of the University of Rochester in 1969, Ruđer Bošković Award in 1974. He has been a full member of the Australian Academy of Sciences since 1992.
He was elected as a correspondent member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1997.