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Baulin, Vladimir
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ICREA Researcher at URV (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). Technology & Engineering
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After graduating with honours from Physics Department at Moscow State University in 2000, Vladimir Baulin spent 3 years in the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France doing his PhD in theory of polymer physics and received a PhD degree in Physics in 2003. From 2004-06 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France. Together with co-workers, Dr. Baulin has proposed a theoretical model for orientation of microtubules, constituents of cell cytoskeleton. He has shown that the proposed mechanism of microtubule orientation induced by mutual collisions between individual microtubules in 2D and 3D leads to global ordering and formation of orientation domains. Later, this model has been shown to describe adequately the orientation of cortical microtubules in plant cells. His actual research is focused on different topics of Soft matter theory, polymer physics and biophysics. Recent work is the modelling of phospholipid bilayers and nano-objects.
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Research Interests
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- One of the main research lines is the development of the Single Chain Mean Field (SCMF) theory, a theoretical method able to predict the properties of nanostructures given the microscopic details of its polymeric constituents. Recent application of the SCMF theory is the modelling of interaction of phospholipid bilayers with nano-objects and self-assembled structures.
- Biophysics: self-assembly of cytoskeleton components in living cells like microtubules, intermediate and actin filaments.
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KeyWords
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statistical physics, biophysics, soft matter physics, self-consistent mean field theory, self-assembly, polymers, surfactants, membranes, microtubules
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