Elena Ivanova

Professor Elena Ivanova is Distinguished Professor at RMIT's School of Science. She received PhD from the Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Ukraine; ScD from the Pacific Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry, Russian Federation; JD from the University of Melbourne; GradDip from the Law Institute, Victoria. Professor Ivanova worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan; Visiting Researcher at the Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland; Visiting Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan; Cambridge University, UK and Institut Charles, Sadron, CNRS, France; she joined Swinburne University of Technology in 2001 and moved to RMIT University in 2018. Professor Ivanova is recipient of AIST and JSPS Fellowships, Japan; UNESCO Biotechnology Fellowship; Research Excellence Award of the Governor of Primorye; Prominent Young Doctor of Science Award of Russian Federation, Morrison Rogosa Award from American Society for Microbiology, U.S.A, Australian Museum Eureka 2017 for Scientific Research, etc.

She has published two books and edited 3 more , 26 book chapters, 4 patents, in excess of 300 research papers with 12700 citations, her h-factor is 55. The research interests are focusing on design, fabrication and operation of planar micro-devices; immobilization of bio-molecules and micro-organisms in micro/nano/environments, bacterial taxonomy, microbial interactions with macro/micro/nano-structured surfaces, biomaterials, and mechano-bactericidal biomimetic nanostructured surfaces.

Most cited publications
Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides Involved in Biofilm Formation
Authors:  Vu, Barbara; Chen, Miao; Crawford, Russell J.; Ivanova, Elena P. 
Published:Jul 2009 in Molecules
DOI: 10.3390/MOLECULES14072535

Bactericidal activity of black silicon
Authors:  Ivanova, Elena P.; Hasan, Jafar; Webb, Hayden K.; ...  Crawford, Russell J.
Published:Nov 2013 in Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS3838

Natural Bactericidal Surfaces: Mechanical Rupture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cells by Cicada Wings
Authors:  Ivanova, Elena P.; Hasan, Jafar; Webb, Hayden K.; ...  Crawford, Russell J.
Published:Aug 2012 in Small
DOI: 10.1002/SMLL.201200528

Biophysical Model of Bacterial Cell Interactions with Nanopatterned Cicada Wing Surfaces
Authors:  Pogodin, Sergey; Hasan, Jafar; Baulin, Vladimir A.; ...  Ivanova, Elena P.
Published:Feb 2013 in Biophysical Journal
DOI: 10.1016/J.BPJ.2012.12.046

Bacterial Retention on Superhydrophobic Titanium Surfaces Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser Ablation
Authors:  Fadeeva, Elena; Truong, Vi Khanh; Stiesch, Meike; ...  Ivanova, Elena P.
Published:Mar 2011 in Langmuir
DOI: 10.1021/LA104607G