Vladimir Baulin: Soft Matter Reseacher at URV DEQ ETSEQ, Tarragona, Spain

Dr. Vladimir A. Baulin

Research interests

Theory and simulation of soft matter: polymers, surfactants, colloids, liquid crystals.
Parallel computation: parallel methods using GPU.
Biophysics: self-organization of microtubules in living cells, modelling of interaction of phospholipid bilayers with nano-objects: carbon nanotubes, polymers, nanoparticles.

Short bio

2013 - : Reseacher - University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
2008: ICREA Junior - University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
2007: Marie Curie postoc - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
2003-2006: postdoc - Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France
2003: PhD in physics - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France
2000: Master in physics - Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Current projects

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2020-114347RB-C33): Acciones mecanobactericidas de las nanoparticulas (PI)

Past projects

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (CTQ2017-84998-P): Segregacion molecular a multiples escalas en sistemas no tensioctivos para la obtencion de materiales (participant)
FP7-People: Initial Training Network SNAL: Smart Nano-objects for Alteration of Lipid bilayers 2014-2018 (coordinator).
URV R2B: Gpu accellerated artificial intelligence for quantitative micrograph analysis 2016 (PI)
MEC I+D “EXCELENCIA”: Diseño y aplicaciones de nuevos micro/nanogeles biocompatibles obtenidos mediante métodos de condensación avanzados (participant)
URV R2B: Automatic lung desease detection 2018 (PI)

Most recent publications

Topic: Lipid membranes, soft matter

1. Vladimir A. Baulin, Topological changes in telechelic micelles: flowers versus stars, 2021 (doi:10.1101/2021.08.13.455870)

2. Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Vladimir A. Baulin, Microplastics destabilize lipid membranes by mechanical stretching, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118 (31), e2104610118, 2021 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2104610118).

3. Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Marco Werner, Xavier Le Guével, Vladimir A. Baulin, Protein corona modulates interaction of spiky nanoparticles with lipid bilayers, J. Coll. & Int. Sci., 603, 550-558, 2021. (doi: 10.1101/2021.05.27.446016)

4. Marco Werner, Yachong Guo, Vladimir A. Baulin, Neural network learns physical rules for copolymer translocation through amphiphilic barriers, npj Computational Materials, 6, 72, 2020. (doi: 10.1038/s41524-020-0318-5)

5. Yachong Guo, Marco Werner, Jean Baptiste Fleury, and Vladimir A. Baulin, Unexpected cholesterol-induced destabilization of lipid membranes near transmembrane carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett., 124(3), 038001, 2020 (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.038001)

Topic: Nanostructured surfaces

D. Linklater; A. A. Medina; P. Le; V. A. Baulin; H. K. Duy Nguyen; R. Curtain; E. Hanssen; G. Gervinskas; S. Hock Ng; V. K. Truong; P. Luque; G. Ramm; H. A.B. Wösten; R. Crawford; S. Juodkazis; S. Maclaughlin, E. Ivanova, Antifungal versus antibacterial defence of insect wings, J. Coll. & Int. Sci., 2021. (doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.06.093)

1. D. P. Linklater, V. A. Baulin, X. Le Guével, J.-B. Fleury, E. Hanssen, The Hong Phong Nguyen, S. Juodkazis, G. Bryant, R. J. Crawford, P. Stoodley, E. P. Ivanova, Antibacterial Action of Nanoparticles by Lethal Stretching of Bacterial Cell Membranes, Advanced Materials, 2005679, 2020 (doi: 10.1002/adma.202005679).

2. D. P. Linklater, V. A. Baulin, S. Juodkazis, R. J. Crawford, P. Stoodley, E. P. Ivanova, Mechano-bactericidal actions of nanostructured surfaces, Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 (doi: 10.1038/ s41579-020-0414-z).

3. Elena P. Ivanova, Denver P. Linklater, Marco Werner, Vladimir A Baulin, XiuMei Xu, Nandi Vrancken, Sergey Rubanov, Eric Hanssen, Jason V Wandiyanto, Vi Khanh Truong, Aaron J Elbourne, Shane Maclaughlin, Saulius Juodkazis, Russell J. Crawford, The multi-faceted mechano-bactericidal mechanism of nanostructured surfaces, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2020. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916680117)

4. Jason V. Wandiyanto, Tasnuva Tamanna, Denver P. Linklater, Vi Khanh Truong, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Vladimir A. Baulin, Saulius Joudkazis, Helmut Thissen, Russell J. Crawford, Elena P. Ivanova, Tunable morphological changes of asymmetric titanium nanosheets with bactericidal properties, Journal of Colloid & Interface Science, 560, 572-580, 2020 (doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2019.10.067)

5. Duy H. K. Nguyen, Christian Loebbe, Denver Paige Linklater, Vladimir A. Baulin, Saulius Juodkazis, Xiumei Xu, Nandi Vrancken, Shane Maclaughlin, Tomas Katkus, Russell J. Crawford and Elena P. Ivanova, The idiosyncratic self-cleaning cycle of bacteria on regularly arrayed mechano-bactericidal nanostructures, Nanoscale, 11, 16455-16462, 2019. (doi:10.1039/C9NR05923G)