Dusan Vobornik
About Dusan Vobornik
Dusan Vobornik is a Lab Manager at Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited and a Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada, with a background in physics and microelectronics.
Company
Dusan Vobornik currently holds a managerial position at the Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited as a Lab Manager. He has been performing this role since 2019 in the Ottawa, Canada Area.
Title
Since 2014, Dusan Vobornik has also served as a Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada, located in Ottawa, Canada.
Education and Expertise
Dusan Vobornik acquired his Ph.D. in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he studied from 2001 to 2005. Before that, he earned a Master's degree in Microelectronics from Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I) from 1999 to 2001, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the same institution from 1996 to 1999.
Background
Dusan Vobornik's professional journey began at EPFL as a Research Assistant from 2001 to 2005. He then progressed to a Post-doctoral fellow role at the National Research Council of Canada from 2005 to 2009. Subsequently, he served as a Scientist at EPFL from 2009 to 2013, followed by a return to the National Research Council Canada in 2009 as a Research Officer for 11 months. He resumed this position in 2014 and continues to hold it.
Achievements
During his career, Dusan Vobornik has made significant contributions to various fields. He developed a novel heterodyne interferometer design to achieve higher precision and lower uncertainty in displacement measurements. At EPFL, he advanced the understanding of sub-molecular organization of biological molecules like DNA via advanced microscopy techniques. His work also includes establishing models to quantify AFM height and contrast formation mechanisms, as well as developing super-resolution optical microscopy methods to examine membrane protein colocalization based on drug treatments. Additionally, he worked on the development of infrared NSOM and its applications in biophysics during his Ph.D.