Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić

Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić FRSNZ

Alma mater	University of Auckland
Scientific career
Fields	Conducting polymers
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers (1999)

Website	travas-sejdic.auckland.ac.nz

Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić FRSNZ is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a professor at the University of Auckland.^[1]

Academic career

After an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a PhD titled 'Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers' at the University of Auckland,^[2] Travaš-Sejdić joined the staff, rising to full professor.^[1]

Travaš-Sejdić is co-founder of spin-out Spot Check.^[3]

Honours and awards

In 2017, Travaš-Sejdić was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[4]^[5]^[6]

In 2018 the New Zealand Association of Scientists awarded Travaš-Sejdić the Shorland Medal.^[7]^[8]^[9]

In 2019, Travaš-Sejdić was awarded the Hector Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[10]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić (Q59325309).

Peng, Hui; Travas-Sejdic, Jadranka (2009). "Simple Aqueous Solution Route to Luminescent Carbogenic Dots from Carbohydrates". Chemistry of Materials. 21 (23): 5563–5565. doi:10.1021/cm901593y.
Svirskis, Darren; Travas-Sejdic, Jadranka; Rodgers, Anthony; Garg, Sanjay (2010). "Electrochemically controlled drug delivery based on intrinsically conducting polymers". Journal of Controlled Release. 146 (1): 6–15. doi:10.1016/j.jconrel.2010.03.023. PMID 20359512.
Peng, Hui; Zhang, Lijuan; Soeller, Christian; Travas-Sejdic, Jadranka (2009). "Conducting polymers for electrochemical DNA sensing". Biomaterials. 30 (11): 2132–2148. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.12.065. PMID 19147223.
Peng, Hui; Zhang, Lijuan; Kjällman, Tanja H. M.; Soeller, Christian; Travas-Sejdic, J. (2007). "DNA Hybridization Detection with Blue Luminescent Quantum Dots and Dye-Labeled Single-Stranded DNA". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129 (11): 3048–3049. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.472.3222. doi:10.1021/ja0685452. PMID 17315877.
Peng, Hui; Soeller, Christian; Vigar, Nickolas; Kilmartin, Paul A.; Cannell, Mark B.; Bowmaker, Graham A.; Cooney, Ralph P.; Travas-Sejdic, Jadranka (2005). "Label-free electrochemical DNA sensor based on functionalised conducting copolymer". Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 20 (9): 1821–1828. doi:10.1016/j.bios.2004.07.013. PMID 15681199.

References

^ ^a ^b "Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic - The University of Auckland". unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz.
^ Travaš-Sejdić, Jadranka (1999). Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/52252.
^ "Jadranka Travas-Sejdic".
^ "Fellows with surnames S-U". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "The 2017 Royal Society Te Apārangi New Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Researchers named Fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi - The University of Auckland". www.science.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 22 January 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "University of Auckland scientists honoured". www.scoop.co.nz. 15 November 2018. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ Morton, Jamie (15 November 2018). "Top scientist pays tribute to late brother with medal win". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "New Zealand Association of Scientists - 2018 Award Recipients". scientists.org.nz. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "2019 Hector Medal: Building bionic – biosensing, biomedicine, bioelectronics". Royal Society Te Apārangi. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2019.