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Materials Science
Slovenia
2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
64
Citations
15139
World Ranking
5872
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Slovenia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Slovenia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Slovenia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical contributions to the soft condensed matter physics of liquid crystal systems
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Slobodan Žumer is affiliated with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, and Engineering, with particular emphasis on subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mechanical Engineering, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work engages several main topics such as Liquid Crystal Research Advancements, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Nonlinear Photonic Systems, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Microtubule and Mitosis Dynamics, and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions.

Recent scientific publications include:

  • Topology in soft and biological matter (2024) published in Physics Reports
  • Interaction and co-assembly of optical and topological solitons (2022) published in Nature Photonics
  • Control of Light by Topological Solitons in Soft Chiral Birefringent Media (2020) published in Physical Review X
  • Physics-based multistep beam propagation in inhomogeneous birefringent media (2020) published in Optics Express
  • Introduction to Colloidal and Microfluidic Nematic Microstructures (2021) published in Crystals

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Žumer include Guilhem Poy, Andrew J. Hess, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Simon Čopar, and Miha Ravnik.

The scientist has published multiple papers in venues such as Annalen der Physik, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Physics Reports, Nature Photonics, and Physical Review X.

Honors awarded to Slobodan Žumer consist of the Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) distinction in 2017 for contributions to the theoretical understanding of soft condensed matter physics of liquid crystal systems. They are also recognized as a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Field controlled light scattering from nematic microdroplets

    J. W. Doane;N. A. Vaz;B.‐G. Wu;S. Žumer

  • Two-Dimensional Nematic Colloidal Crystals Self-Assembled by Topological Defects

    Igor Muševič;Igor Muševič;Miha Škarabot;Miha Škarabot;Uroš Tkalec;Uroš Tkalec;Miha Ravnik;Miha Ravnik

  • Reconfigurable Knots and Links in Chiral Nematic Colloids

    Uroš Tkalec;Miha Ravnik;Miha Ravnik;Simon Čopar;Slobodan Žumer

  • Landau–de Gennes modelling of nematic liquid crystal colloids

    Miha Ravnik;Slobodan Žumer

  • Microscope textures of nematic droplets in polymer dispersed liquid crystals

    Renate Ondris‐Crawford;Evan P. Boyko;Brian G. Wagner;John H. Erdmann

  • Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases

    Miha Ravnik;Gareth P. Alexander;Julia M. Yeomans;Slobodan Žumer

  • Entangled nematic colloidal dimers and wires.

    M. Ravnik;M. Škarabot;S. Žumer;S. Žumer;U. Tkalec

  • Assembly and control of 3D nematic dipolar colloidal crystals

    A. Nych;U. Ognysta;M. Škarabot;M. Ravnik

  • Polymer networks formed in liquid crystals

    Y. K. Fung;D.-K. Yang;S. Ying;L.-C. Chien

  • Geometrical frustration of chiral ordering in cholesteric droplets

    David Seč;Tine Porenta;Miha Ravnik;Slobodan Žumer;Slobodan Žumer

  • Continuous Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Submicron-Size Liquid-Crystal Droplets

    A Golemme;S Zumer;DW Allender;JW Doane

  • Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields

    Angel Martinez;Miha Ravnik;Brice Lucero;Rayshan Visvanathan

  • Interactions of quadrupolar nematic colloids.

    Skarabot M;Ravnik M;Zumer S;Zumer S;Tkalec U

  • Anchoring and orientational wetting transitions of confined liquid crystals.

    G. P. Crawford;R. Ondris-Crawford;S. Žumer;J. W. Doane

  • Calorimetric study of octylcyanobiphenyl liquid crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass.

    Zdravko Kutnjak;Samo Kralj;Samo Kralj;Gojmir Lahajnar;Slobodan Zumer;Slobodan Zumer

  • NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION IN A LIQUID-CRYSTAL DROPLET

    S. Kralj;S. Zumer;S. Zumer;David W Allender

  • 2D interactions and binary crystals of dipolar and quadrupolar nematic colloids.

    U. Ognysta;A. Nych;V. Nazarenko;I. Muševič;I. Muševič

  • Optical determination of the saddle-splay elastic constant K 24 in nematic liquid crystals

    R. D. Polak;G. P. Crawford;B. C. Kostival;J. W. Doane

  • Spontaneous formation and dynamics of half-skyrmions in a chiral liquid-crystal film

    Andriy Nych;Jun-ichi Fukuda;Jun-ichi Fukuda;Jun-ichi Fukuda;Uliana Ognysta;Slobodan Žumer

  • Systematic study of orientational wetting and anchoring at a liquid-crystal-surfactant interface.

    GP Crawford;RJ Ondris-Crawford;JW Doane;S Zumer

  • Hierarchical self-assembly of nematic colloidal superstructures.

    M. Škarabot;M. Ravnik;S. Žumer;S. Žumer;U. Tkalec

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor Muševič
Igor Muševič Jožef Stefan Institute
Robert Blinc
Robert Blinc Jožef Stefan Institute
Ivan I. Smalyukh
Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado Boulder
Heino Finkelmann
Heino Finkelmann University of Freiburg
Zdravko Kutnjak
Zdravko Kutnjak Jožef Stefan Institute
Claudio Zannoni
Claudio Zannoni University of Bologna
Gregory P. Crawford
Gregory P. Crawford Miami University
Rudolf Podgornik
Rudolf Podgornik University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Julia M. Yeomans
Julia M. Yeomans University of Oxford
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Oleg D. Lavrentovich Kent State University

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