TADEJ KOTNIK

Born:	1972, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Education:	Ph.D. Biophysics (2000, University of Paris XI, France)
	Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (2000, University of Ljubljana)
Position:	Vice-Dean for Research, Full Professor,
	Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Address:	Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone:	+386 14 768 768
Fax:	+386 14 264 658
E-mail:	tadej.kotnik@fe.uni-lj.si

Courses:
      •  Digital structures (1st cycle University programme - 2nd year) [page in Slovenian]
      •  Digital technology (1st cycle Applied Engineering programme - 2nd year) [page in Slovenian]
      •  Bioelectromagnetics (2nd cycle - 2nd year) [page in Slovenian]

International awards:
2001  Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society
2014  Ten Most Prominent Research Achievements ot the University of Ljubljana

Selected bibliography: (to generate the complete bibliography, click here)

• Kotnik T, Weaver JC. Abiotic gene transfer: rare or rampant? J. Membrane Biol. 249:
  623-631, 2016. [PDF]
  © 2016 Springer Science + Business Media New York. DOI 10.1007/s00232-016-9897-y
• Kotnik T, Frey W, Sack M, Haberl Meglič S, Peterka M, Miklavčič D. Electroporation-based applications in biotechnology. Trends Biotechnol. 33: 480-488, 2015. [PDF]
  © 2015 Elsevier Ltd / Cell Press. DOI 10.1016/j.tibtech.2015.06.002
• Yarmush ML, Golberg A, Serša G, Kotnik T, Miklavčič D. Electroporation-based technologies for medicine: principles, applications, and challenges. Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 16: 295-320, 2014. [PDF]
  © 2014 Annual Reviews. DOI 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071813-104622
• Kotnik T. Lightning-triggered electroporation and electrofusion as possible contributors to natural horizontal gene transfer. Phys. Life Rev. 10: 351-370, 2013.
  [PDF]
  © 2013 Elsevier B.V. DOI 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.05.001
• Kotnik T. Prokaryotic diversity, electrified DNA, lightning waveforms, abiotic gene transfer, and the Drake equation: Assessing the hypothesis of lightning-driven evolution. Phys. Life Rev. 10: 384-388, 2013. [PDF]
  © 2013 Elsevier B.V. DOI 10.1016/j.plrev.2013.07.027
• Marjanovič I, Kotnik T. An experimental system for controlled exposure of biological samples to electrostatic discharges. Bioelectrochemistry 94: 79-86, 2013. [PDF]
  © 2013 Elsevier B.V. DOI 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2013.09.001
• Čemažar J, Kotnik T. Dielectrophoretic field-flow fractionation of electroporated cells. Electrophoresis 33: 2867-2874, 2012. [PDF]
  © 2012 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. DOI 10.1002/elps.201200265
• Kotnik T, Kramar P, Pucihar G, Miklavčič D, Tarek M. Cell membrane electroporation –
  Part 1: The phenomenon. IEEE Electr. Insul. M. 28(5): 14-23, 2012. [PDF]
  © 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. DOI 10.1109/MEI.2012.6268438
• Kotnik T, Pucihar G, Miklavčič D. Induced transmembrane voltage and its correlation with electroporation-mediated molecular transport. J. Membrane Biol. 236: 3-13, 2010. [PDF]
  © 2010 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. DOI 10.1007/s00232-010-9279-9
• Kotnik T. Computational estimation of the constant β(1) characterizing the order
  of ζ(1 + it). Math. Comp. 77: 1713-1723, 2008. [PDF]
  © 2008 American Mathematical Society. DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-08-02065-6
• Kotnik T. The prime-counting function and its analytic approximations. Adv. Comput. Math. 29: 55-70, 2008. [PDF]
  © 2008 Springer. DOI 10.1007/s10444-007-9039-2
• Pucihar G, Kotnik T, Miklavčič D, Teissié J. Kinetics of transmembrane transport of small molecules into electropermeabilized cells. Biophys. J. 95: 2837-2848, 2008. [PDF]
  © 2008 Biophysical Society. DOI 10.1529/biophysj.108.135541
• Kotnik T. Evaluation of some integrals of sums involving the Möbius function. Int. J. Comput. Math. 84: 469-475, 2007. [PDF]
  © 2007 Taylor and Francis. DOI 10.1080/00207160701210125
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D. Theoretical evaluation of voltage inducement on internal membranes of biological cells exposed to electric fields. Biophys. J. 90: 480-491,
  2006. [PDF]
  © 2006 Biophysical Society. DOI 10.1529/biophysj.105.070771
• Kotnik T, te Riele H. The Mertens conjecture revisited. Lect. Notes Comp. Sci. 4076: 156-167, 2006. [PDF]
  © 2006 Springer Verlag. DOI 10.1007/11792086_12
• Kotnik T. Computational estimation of the order of ζ(½ + it). Math. Comp. 73: 949-956, 2004. [PDF] [PS]
  © 2003 American Mathematical Society. DOI 10.1090/S0025-5718-03-01568-0
• Kotnik T, van de Lune J. On the order of the Mertens function. Exp. Math. 13: 473-481, 2004. [PDF]
  © 2004 AK Peters, Ltd. ISSN 1058-6458. DOI 10.1080/10586458.2004.10504556
• Kotnik T, Pucihar G, Rebersek M, Mir LM, Miklavcic D. Role of pulse shape in cell membrane electropermeabilization. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1614: 193-200, 2003. [PDF]
  © 2003 Elsevier BV. DOI 10.1016/S0005-2736(03)00173-1
• Kotnik T, van de Lune J. Further systematic computations on the summatory function of the Möbius function. CWI Report MAS R-0313: 1-9, 2003. [PDF]
  © 2003 CWI Amsterdam. ISSN 1386-3703
• Kotnik T, Mir LM, Flisar K, Puc M, Miklavcic D. Cell membrane electropermeabilization by symmetrical bipolar rectangular pulses. Part I. Increased efficiency of permeabilization. Bioelectrochemistry 54: 83-90, 2001. [PDF]
  © 2001 Elsevier BV. DOI 10.1016/S1567-5394(01)00114-1
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D, Mir LM. Cell membrane electropermeabilization by symmetrical bipolar rectangular pulses. Part II. Reduced electrolytic contamination. Bioelectrochemistry 54: 91-95, 2001. [PDF]
  © 2001 Elsevier BV. DOI 10.1016/S1567-5394(01)00115-3
• Kotnik T, Macek-Lebar A, Miklavcic D, Mir LM. Evaluation of cell membrane electropermeabilization by means of nonpermeant cytotoxic agent. Biotechniques 28: 921-926, 2000. [PDF]
  © 2000 Eaton Publishing Co. ISSN 0736-6205
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D. Analytical description of transmembrane voltage induced by electric fields on spheroidal cells. Biophys. J. 79: 670-679, 2000. [PDF]
  © 2000 Biophysical Society. ISSN 0006-3495
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D. Second-order model of membrane electric field induced by alternating external electric fields. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 47: 1074-1081, 2000.
  [PDF]
  © 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. DOI 10.1109/10.855935
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D. Theoretical evaluation of the distributed power dissipation in biological cells exposed to electric fields. Bioelectromagnetics 21: 385-394, 2000. [PDF]
  © 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc. DOI 10.1002/1521-186X(200007)21:5<385::AID-BEM7>3.0.CO;2-F
• Kotnik T, Miklavcic D, Slivnik T. Time course of transmembrane voltage induced by time-varying electric fields – a method for theoretical analysis and its application. Bioelectrochem. Bioenerg. 45: 3-16, 1998. [PDF]
  © 1998 Elsevier Science SA. DOI 10.1016/S0302-4598(97)00093-7
• Kotnik T, Bobanovic F, Miklavcic D. Sensitivity of transmembrane voltage induced by applied electric fields – a theoretical analysis. Bioelectrochem. Bioenerg. 43: 285-291, 1997. [PDF]
  © 1997 Elsevier Science SA. DOI 10.1016/S0302-4598(97)00023-8