Short Biography: Dr Erika Eiser
I did my undergraduate studies in solid-state physics at the University of
Konstanz, Germany, and in 1992 I received my Diplom (Masters of Science)
studying ‘Interdiffusion in polymer films’. This research was done under the
daily supervision of Prof. J. Klein at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
and supervised by Prof. G. Schatz in Konstanz. In 1997 I completed my PhD
at the Weizmann Institute, in the group of Prof. Klein on the ‘Study of normal
and shear interactions between polymer-bearing surfaces’.
After 2 years of postdoctoral research on the structure and rheology of selfassembled polymeric surfactant crystals at the University of Montpellier II, and
a years work at the European Synchroton Radiation Facility in Grenoble,
France, I started my research group as Assistant Prof. at the Univ. of
Amsterdam in the Chemical Engineering department in 2000. There I build up
a Small Angle X-ray Scattering facility studying self-assembling systems
under shear. In particular, my group focused on self-assembling protein and
surfactant system, combined with catalytically active nano-particles. Here I
also started working with DNA-functionalized colloidal systems. In 2008, I took
up an Assistant Prof. (Lecturer) at the Cavendish Laboratory in the University
of Cambridge, and since 2012 I am an Associate Prof. (Reader). My group of
presently 9 PhD students and 1 PDRA, continue research on the selfassembly of DNA-functionalized colloids with the focus on building amorphous
materials with function such as highly porous electrodes and photonic
applications. For the structural and dynamic analysis of our systems we use
various microscopy techniques and micro-rheology combined with in-house
developed video analysis techniques. Further we collaborate closely with
various groups complementing our experimental work with simulations and
other techniques.
List of Publications:
http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=ipgdVbgAAAAJ&hl=en&cstart=40&pagesize=20
Selected publications
1. L. Parolini, B. M. Mognetti, J. Kotar, E. Eiser, P. Cicuta, L. Di Michele, ‘Thermal regulation
of volume and porosity in lipid mesophases by coupling mobile ligands to soft
membranes’, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6948 (2014).
2. L. Di Michele, B. M. Mognetti, P. Varilly, T. Yanagishima, Z. Ruff, D. Frenkel, E. Eiser,
‘Impact of Inert Tails on the Thermodynamics of DNA Hybridization’ JACS, Online:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja500027v (2014).
3. T. Yanagishima, L Laohakunakorn, U. F. Keyser, E. Eiser, H. Tanaka, ‘Influence of
in
-DNA coated colloid’, Soft
Matter, 10, 1738 (2014).
4. L. Di Michele, F. Varrato, J. Kotar, S.H. Nathan, G. Foffi, E. Eiser, ‘Multistep kinetic selfassembly of DNA-coated colloids’, Nature Communications, 4:2007, DOI:
10.1038/ncomms3007 (2013).
5. F. Varrato, L. Di Michele, M. Belushkin, N. Dorsaz, S.H. Nathan, E. Eiser, G. Foffi,
‘Arrested demixing: from gels to bigels’, PNAS, doi 10.1073 (2012).
6. L. Di Michele, A. Zaccone, and E. Eiser, ‘Analytical theory of polymer-network mediated
attraction between colloidal particles’, PNAS, 109, 10189 (2012).
7. A. Kumachev, J. Greener, E. Tumarkin, E. Eiser, and E. Kumacheva, “High throughput
generation of hydrogel beads with varying elasticity enabling cell differentiation”
BioMaterials, 32, 1477 (2011).
8. N. Geerts, E. Eiser, “DNA-functionalized Colloids: Physical Properties and Applications”
Soft Matter, 6, 4647-4660. doi: 10.1039/c001603a (2010).
9. N. Geerts, E. Eiser, “Flying Colloidal Carpets” Soft Matter, 6, 664 (2010).
10. A. Esseling-Ozdoba, D. Houtman, A.A.M. van Lammeren, E. Eiser, A.M.C. Emons;
“Hydrodynamic Flow in the Cytoplasm of Plant Cells” J. Microscopy, 231, Pt 2, 274
(2008).
11. E. Eiser and J. Klein, “The Effect of Mobile Polymers on the Normal and Shear Forces
Between Polymer Brushes” Macromolecules, 40, 8455 (2007).
12. S. Jabbari-Farouji, D. Mizuno, M. Atakhorrami, F. C. MacKintosh, C. F. Schmidt, E. Eiser,
G. H. Wegdam and Daniel Bonn; “ Non-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation theorem in an
aging colloidal glass” Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 108302 (2007).
13. D. Domínguez-Gutiérrez, M. Surtchev, E. Eiser and C. J. Elsevier, “Ru(II)-based
metallosurfactant forming inverted aggregates”, Nanoletters, 6, 145 (2006).
14. A. Khaldoun, E. Eiser, G. Wegdam, and D. Bonn, "Liquefaction of quicksand under
stress" Nature, 437, 635 (2005).
15. E. Eiser, F. Molino, G. Porte and O. Diat , “Nonhomogeneous textures and banded shear
flow in a soft cubic phase under shear” , Phys. Rev. E, 61, 6759 (2000).
16. E. Eiser, J. Klein, T.A. Witten, J.L. Fetters, “Shear of telechelic brushes”, Phys. Rev. Lett.,
82, 5076 (1999)