Curriculum Vitae last updated: September 2021
Antonio Šiber Institute of physics Bijenička cesta 46 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: __385 1 4698 839 e-mail: [email protected] web page: http://asiber.ifs.hr
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, year 1972 Education
July 2002, Ph.D. in solid state physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia. “Theory of thermal energy atom scattering from (sub)monolayers on solid surfaces”
Employment
2010 - , scientific advisor, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia
2018 /2019, scientific advisor, Department of Theoretical physics, Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2007 - 2010 , senior scientific associate, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia
2007 /2008, postdoctoral research associate, Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 - 2007, scientific associate, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 – 2003, senior research assistant, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia
1997 – 2002, research assistant, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia
They have acknowledged my work
2010, Acknowledgement by Croatian Physical Society for “contribution to successful execution and dedicated work in the Academic Committee of 41st International Physics Olympiad, held in Zagreb from 17th -25th of July, 2010”.
2004, Second place award of the Jury of the Web Festival organized by Croatian Academic Research Network (CARNet) for “the best site with educational content” (nanoatlas.ifs.hr)
2003, Award of the student section of Croatian physical society for “the best presentation on the 4th scientific meeting of the Croatian physical society”
2003, Award of Croatian Physical Society for “unselfish and dedicated work on the advancement of physics in Croatia”
2003, Croatian state yearly award for science awarded for “theoretical work in the field of atom scattering from and adsorption on surfaces”
1995, Rector’s award; awarded by the Rector of the University of Zagreb for the best student work entitled “Principles of quantum mechanics in double barrier resonant tunnelling”
Projects
leader
2007-2013, “Shapes and structures of nanoscale systems dictated by competition of energies” (Financed by Ministry of Science of Republic of Croatia).
2007/2008, “Biological nanostructures” (financed by National Foundation for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of Republic of Croatia).
2004/2005, “Spheres within spheres” – a creation of a popular-scientific, educative movie inspired by Feynman’s anecdotal statement “All matter is made of atoms!” (financed by CARNET, Croatian academic research network).
2003/2004, “Computer aided visualization of nanometre structures in physics, chemistry and biology: A meeting of science, technology and art in a virtual, three- dimensional space” (IT project financed by Ministry of Science of Republic of Croatia).
one of the involved researchers
2012, FP7 Marie Curie-Initial Training Network, „Physics of Complex Colloids: Equilibrium and Driven“ (ITN-COMPLOIDS). Visiting scientist (April – June 2012), invited by dr. Primož Ziherl.
2009, “Interfacial Materials - Computational and Experimental Multi-Scale Studies“, led by prof. dr. Rudolf Podgornik, FMF Ljubljana, Slovenia. Financed by EU (FP6).
2007-2012, “Quantum states, ultrafast dynamics i decoherence in nanosctured systems“, led by dr.sc. Branko Gumhalter, Institute of physics, Zagreb. Financed by Croatian Ministry of Science.
2002-2006, “Modeling properties of micro- and nano-structured surfaces“, led by dr.sc. Branko Gumhalter, Institute of physics, Zagreb. Financed by Croatian Ministry of Science.
1996-2002, “Physics of surfaces and adsorbed layers”, led by dr.sc. Branko Gumhalter, Institut of physics, Zagreb. Financed by Croatian Ministry of Science.
Professional activities
2012, 2014 October, member of the Program Committee of the (11th & 12th) Greta Pifat Mrzljak International School of Biophysics, Primošten, Croatia
2011, 2014, 2018 December, president of the Organization Committee of the 6th, 9th and 13th Christmas Biophysics Workshop, Varaždin (6th), Buzet (9th), and Tuheljske Toplice (13th), Croatia.
2010, July, member of the Academic Committee of the 41st International Physics Olympiad in Zagreb, Croatia. Author of one (of three) theoretical problem and one (of two) experimental problem.
2003 - , referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Journal of Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Nanotechnology, Journal of Nanophotonics, and Vacuum. Refereed projects submitted to NSF (USA), European Commission (EC), National Council for Scientific Research (RO), Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (DK), National Science Centre Poland (PL), Croatian Ministry of Science (HR), Croatian Foundation for Science (HR). Served as member of PhD thesis defense committees at University of Zagreb (HR), University of Ljubljana (SLO) and Technische Universität Wien (AT).
2010, August, member of the Organizing Committee of „7th International Symposium on Ultrafast Surface Dynamics USD7“, Brijuni, Croatia.
2005, June, member of the Organizing Committee of the Summer school for young physicists organized by Croatian physical society in Labin, Croatia. Editor of the Proceedings (“Fizika u temeljima suvremene znanosti i društva”).
Publications in ISI WoS journals
Biological physics
60. A. Božič and A. Šiber, "Mechanical design of apertures and the infolding of pollen grain“, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 117, 26600 (2020).
59. A. Šiber, "Icosadeltahedral Geometry of Geodesic Domes, Fullerenes and Viruses: A Tutorial on the T-Number“, Symmetry 12, 556 (2020).
58. Natalia Martín-González, Mercedes Hernando-Pérez, Gabriela N Condezo, Marta Pérez- Illana, Antonio Šiber, David Reguera, Philomena Ostapchuk, Patrick Hearing, Carmen San Martín, Pedro J de Pablo, "Adenovirus major core protein condenses DNA in clusters and bundles, modulating genome release and capsid internal pressure“, Nucl. Acids Res. 47, 9231 (2019).
57. M. Kokalj Ladan, P. Ziherl and A. Šiber "Topology of dividing planar tilings: Mitosis and order in epithelial tissues“, Phys. Rev. E 100, 012410 (2019).
56. A. Lošdorfer Božič and A. Šiber, "Electrostatics-Driven Inflation of Elastic Icosahedral Shells as a Model for Swelling of Viruses“, Biophys. J. 115, 822 (2018).
55. S. Marion, C. San Martin and A. Šiber, "Role of Condensing Particles in Polymer Confinement: A Model for Virus-Packed 'Minichromosomes'“, Biophys. J. 113, 1643 (2017).
54. A. Šiber, "Shapes of minimal-energy DNA ropes condensed in confinement“, Sci. Rep. 6, 29012 (2016).
53. A. J. Perez-Berna, S. Marion, F. J. Chichon, J. J. Fernandez, D. C. Winkler, J. L. Carrascosa, A. C. Steven, A. Šiber, and C. San Martin, "Distribution of DNA-condensing protein complexes in the adenovirus core", Nucl. Acids Res. 43, 4274 (2015).
52. S. Marion and A. Šiber, "Ejecting phage DNA against cellular turgor pressure“, Biophys. J. 107, 1924 (2014).
51. A. Lošdorfer Božič, A. Šiber, and R. Podgornik, "Statistical analysis of sizes and shapes of virus capsids and their resulting elastic properties“, J. Biol. Phys. 39, 215 (2013).
50. A. Lošdorfer Božič, A. Šiber, and R. Podgornik, "How simple can a model of an empty viral capsid be? Charge distributions in viral capsids“, J. Biol. Phys. 38, 657 (2012).
49. A. Šiber, A. Lošdorfer Božič, and R. Podgornik, "Energies and pressures in viruses: contribution of nonspecific electrostatic interactions“, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 14, 3746 (2012).
48. A. Leforestier, A. Šiber, F. Livolant, and R. Podgornik, "Protein-DNA Interactions Determine the Shapes of DNA Toroids Condensed in Virus Capsids“, Biophys. J. 100, 2209 (2011).
47. A. Lošdorfer Božič, A. Šiber, and R. Podgornik, "Electrostatic self-energy of a partially formed spherical shell in salt solution: Application to stability of tethered and fluid shells as models for viruses and vesicles“, Phys. Rev. E 83, 041916 (2011).
46. A. Šiber, R. Zandi and R. Podgornik, "Thermodynamics of nanospheres encapsulated in virus capsids“, Phys. Rev. E 81, 051919 (2010).
45. A. Šiber and A. Majdandžić, "Spontaneous curvature as a regulator of the size of virus capsids“, Phys. Rev. E 80, 021910 (2009).
44. A. Šiber and R. Podgornik, "Stability of elastic icosadeltahedral shells under uniform external pressure: Application to viruses under osmotic pressure“, Phys. Rev. E 79, 011919 (2009).
43. A. Šiber and R. Podgornik, "Nonspecific interactions in spontaneous assembly of empty versus functional single-stranded RNA viruses“, Phys. Rev. E 78, 051915 (2008).
42. A. Šiber, M. Dragar, V.A. Parsegian, and R. Podgornik, "Packing nanomechanics of viral genomes“, Eur. Phys. J. E 26, 317 (2008).
41. A. Šiber and R. Podgornik, "Role of electrostatic interactions in the assembly of empty spherical viral capsids", Phys. Rev. E 76, 061906 (2007).
40. A. Šiber, "Buckling transition in icosahedral shells subjected to volume conservation constraint and pressure: Relations to virus maturation", Phys. Rev. E 73, 061915 (2006).
Shapes, energies, dynamics and thermodynamics of (non-biological) nanoscale objects
39. M. Petrović, J.T. Sadowski, A. Šiber, and M. Kralj, "Wrinkles of graphene on Ir(111): Macroscopic network ordering and internal multi-lobed structure“, Carbon 94, 856 (2015).
38. M. Popović and A. Šiber, "Lattice-gas Poisson-Boltzmann approach for sterically asymmetric electrolytes“, Phys. Rev. E 88, 022302 (2013).
37. A. Šiber and P. Ziherl, "Many-body contact repulsion of deformable disks“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 214301 (2013).
36. A. Šiber and H. Buljan, "Theoretical and experimental analysis of a thin elastic cylindrical tube acting as a non-Hookean spring“, Phys. Rev. E 83, 067601 (2011).
35. A. Šiber, R.F. Rajter, R.H. French, W.Y. Ching, V.A. Parsegian, and R. Podgornik, "Optically anisotropic infinite cylinder above an optically anisotropic half space: Dispersion interaction of a single-walled carbon nanotube with a substrate“, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 28, C4A17 (2010).
34. A. Šiber, R.F. Rajter, R.H. French, W.Y. Ching, V.A. Parsegian, and R. Podgornik, "Dispersion interactions between optically anisotropic cylinders at all separations: Retardation effects for insulating and semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes“, Phys. Rev. B 80, 165414 (2009).
33. A. Šiber, "Continuum and all-atom description of the energetics of graphene nanocones", Nanotechnology 18, 375705 (2007).
32. A. Šiber, "Shapes and energies of giant icosahedral fullerenes: Onset of ridge sharpening transition", Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 395 (2006).
31. A. Šiber, "Energies of sp2 carbon shapes with pentagonal disclinations and elasticity theory", Nanotechnology 17, 3598 (2006).
30. A. Šiber, "Vibrations of closed-shell Lennard-Jones icosahedral and cuboctahedral clusters and their effect on the cluster ground-state energy", Phys. Rev. B 70, 075407 (2004).
Quantum dynamics
29. B. Gumhalter, A. Šiber, H. Buljan, and T. Fauster, “Nonadiabatic dynamics of electron scattering from adsorbates in surface bands”, Phys. Rev. B 78, 155410 (2008).
28. A. Šiber, “Dynamics and (de)localization in a one-dimensional tight-binding chain”, Am. J. Phys. 74, 692 (2006).
Propagation of "white" light in non-instantaneous nonlinear optical materials
27. H. Buljan, A. Šiber, M. Soljačić, T. Schwartz, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Incoherent white light solitons in logarithmically saturable noninstantaneous nonlinear media", Phys. Rev. E 68, 036607 (2003).
26. H. Buljan, A. Šiber, M. Soljačić, and M.Segev, "Propagation of incoherent ''white'' light and modulation instability in non-instantaneous nonlinear media", Phys. Rev. E 66, 035601(R) (2002).
Gases in carbon nanotube materials
25. A. Šiber, "Reply to 'Comment on `Quantum virial expansion approach to thermodynamics of 4He adsorbates in carbon nanotube materials: Interacting Bose gas in one dimension'", Phys. Rev. B 70, 016502(2004).
24. A. Šiber, "Coating carbon nanotubes: geometry of incommensurate long-range-ordered physisorbed monolayers", Phys. Rev. B 68, 033406 (2003).
23. M. T. Cvitaš and A. Šiber, "Vibrations of a chain of Xe atoms in a groove in a carbon nanotube bundle", Phys. Rev. B 67, 193401 (2003).
22. A. Šiber, "Quantum virial expansion approach to thermodynamics of 4He adsorbates in carbon nanotube bundles: Interacting Bose gas in one dimension", Phys. Rev. B 67, 165426 (2003).
21. A. Šiber, "Phonons and specific heat of linear dense phases of atoms physisorbed in the grooves of carbon nanotube bundles", Phys. Rev. B 66, 235414 (2002).
20. A. Šiber, "Adsorption of He atoms in external grooves of single wall carbon nanotube bundles", Phys. Rev. B 66, 205406 (2002).
19. A. Šiber and H. Buljan, "Quantum states and specific heat of low-density He gas adsorbed within the carbon nanotube interstitial channels: Band structure effects and potential dependence", Phys. Rev. B 66, 075415(2002).
Valence photohole - phonon interaction: lifetimes of surface quantum well states
18. M. Kralj, A. Šiber, P. Pervan, M. Milun, T. Valla, P. D. Johnson, and D. P. Woodruff, "Temperature dependence of photoemission from quantum-well states in Ag/V(100): Moving surface-vacuum barrier effect", Phys. Rev. B 64, 085411(2001).
17. T. Valla, M. Kralj, A. Šiber, M. Milun, P. Pervan, P. D. Johnson, and D. P. Woodruff, "Oscillatory electron-phonon coupling in ultra-thin silver films on V(100)", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, L477 (2000).
Scattering of thermal energy atoms from surfaces
16. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Phonon-mediated bound state resonances in inelastic atom- surface scattering“, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 20, 224002 (2008).
15. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Reply to “Comment on `Suppression of inelastic bound-state resonance effects by the dimensionality of an atom-surface scattering event' ”", Phys. Rev. B 75, 046402 (2007).
14. A. Šiber, C. Boas, M.W. Cole. and C. Wöll, "Anomalously low probabilities for rotational excitation in HD-surface scattering", ChemPhysChem 7, 1015 (2006).
13. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Suppression of inelastic bound-state resonance effects by the dimensionality of an atom-surface scattering event", Phys. Rev. B 71, 081401(R) (2005).
12. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Interactions of He atoms with Xe plated graphite: Unified treatment of scattering and adsorbate dynamics based on method of coupled channels", Prog. Surf. Sci. 74, 375 (2003).
11. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Diffraction of He atoms from Xe monolayer adsorbed on the graphite (0001) revisited: the importance of multiple scattering processes", Surf. Sci. 529, L269 (2003).
10. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Linear versus Nonlinear Coupling Effects in Single- and Multiphonon Atom-Surface Scattering", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 126103(2003).
9. A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter and Ch. Wöll, "Kinematic effects in the Debye-Waller factor and sticking probabilities in low-energy atom-surface scattering", J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, 5913 (2002).
8. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Zone edge focused two-phonon processes in He atom scattering from a simple prototype system: Xe(111)", Surf. Sci. 502-503, 422(2002).
7. A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter, A. P. Graham, and J. P. Toennies, "He atom scattering and theoretical study of the surface phonons of a simple benchmark system: Xe(111)", Phys. Rev. B 63, 115411 (2001).
6. B. Gumhalter, A. Šiber and J. P. Toennies, "Recovery temperature for nonclassical energy transfer in atom-surface scattering", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1375 (1999).
5. A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter and J. P. Toennies, "Study of energy transfer in helium atom scattering from surfaces", Vacuum 54, 315 (1999).
4. A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter, J. Braun, A. P. Graham, M. Bertino, J. P. Toennies, D. Fuhrmann, and Ch. Wöll, "Combined He-atom scattering and theoretical study of the low-energy vibrations of physisorbed monolayers of Xe on Cu(111) and Cu(001)", Phys. Rev. B 59, 5898 (1999).
3. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Comment on ''Quantum scattering of heavy particles from a 10 K Cu(111) surface''", Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1742 (1998).
2. J. Braun, D. Fuhrmann, A. Šiber, B. Gumhalter, and Ch. Wöll, "Observation of a zone- center gap in the longitudinal mode of an adsorbate overlayer: Xenon on Cu(111)", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 125 (1998).
1. A. Šiber and B. Gumhalter, "Debye-Waller factor in He -> Cu(001) collisions revisited: the role of the interaction potentials", Surf. Sci. 385, 270 (1997).
Books
Antonio Šiber, “Skice dvorišta” (Sketches of backyard), e-book (2019) – a selection from the ten year of posts on blog “Konstrukcija stvarnosti” (Construction of Reality). Download here: http://www.antoniosiber.org/skice_dvorista/skice_dvorista.pdf (in Croatian)
Antonio Šiber and Primož Ziherl, “Cellular Patterns”, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Boca Raton (2017) – a review of mechanics of cells and tissues in a textbook-like style (264 pages with 172 B/W illustrations).
Antonio Šiber, “Svemir kao slagalica” (Universe as a jigsaw puzzle), Školska knjiga, Zagreb (2005) – a popular description of the structure of matter that crosses borders between physics, chemistry and biology (202 pages with 60 original illustrations).
Antonio Šiber, “Problem promatrača” (Problem of the observer), Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb (2008) – a mixed popular science and SF novel with philosophical excursions discussing the final goal of science and whether there is such a thing (165 pages with 15 original illustrations).
Invited scientific presentations and seminars
2021, September – Online Workshop on Physics and Geometry of Viruses School of Nano Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran, „Crash course on motifs in structure, symmetry, and energetics of viruses“, invited by dr. Ali Naji
2021, July – Croatian botanical society, „Mechanics of swelling and drying of pollen grains“, invited by Vedran Šegota, president of the Society
2019, November – 4th Retreat of the Biointerface Doctoral School, TU Wien, Reichenau an der Rax, Austrija, „Collapsing elastic shells: viruses, pollen grains, footballs and bathyscaphes“, invited by prof. dr. Gerhard Kahl.
2019, June – Faculty of chemical engineering and technology, AMACIZ colloquium, Zagreb, ”Nonspecific, physical approaches to investigation of viruses”, invited by dr. Ljerka Kratofil Krehula.
2018, March – 4th Scientific Meeting of COST action CM1306, Understanding movement and mechanism in molecular machines, Zagreb, „Generic physics and molecular specificity in viruses - which is which?“, invited by the organizers (dr. sc. Nadica Maltar Strmečki).
2017, October – 10th Scientific Meeting of Croatian Physical Society, Baška, „Condensation of long DNA molecules: bundles, ropes, spools and knots“, invited by the organizers.
2016, September – „13th Greta Pifat Mrzljak International School of Biophysics“, Split – Šibenik – Sali – Zadar – Rogoznica – Stari Grad, „Conformations of DNA ropes condensed in cylindrical confinement“, invited by the organizers (dr. sc. Tomislav Vuletić)
2016, March – Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, „DNA compaction in viruses“, invited by prof. dr. Bojan Žagrović (Seminar Series „Modern Concepts in Structural Biology“)
2015, September – Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL Lausanne, „Conformations of DNA Bundles in Viruses“, invited by prof. dr. Aleksandra Rađenović
2015, May – Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, University of Vienna, „Conformations of circular DNA bundles in viruses“, invted by prof. dr. Primož Ziherl
2014, December – „C-MAC Days 2014“, Zagreb, Croatia, „Many-body contact repulsion of deformable disks“, invited by dr. Ana Smontara
2014, May - „Regional Biophysics Conference RBC 2014“, Smolenice, Slovakia, „Condensing DNA in viruses: the shapes and the energies“, invited by prof. dr. Tibor Hanik
2013, November – Seminar of the Institute of Physics, Zagreb, „Many-body contact repulsion of deformable disks“, invited by dr. Osor Barišić and dr. Nikša Krstulović.
2013, April – „II meeting of BioFiViNet, Red Espanola Interdisciplinar de Biofisica de los Virus“, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, „Are electrostatic and elastic properties of viruses tuned by evolution and how?“, plenary lecture invited by dr. David Reguera and dr. Pedro J. de Pablo Gomez.
2013, March– Colloquium of Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, ”Some physics of viruses and the grand questions still unanswered“, invited by prof. dr. Primož Ziherl.
2012, December– „Nanobiotechnology Workshop“, JRC Ispra, Italy, ”Viruses as self- assembled nano-particles“, invited by dr. Francois Rossi.
2012, September– „Workshop on Physical Virology“, Trieste, Italy, ”Importance of electrostatic interactions for virus assembly and structure“, invited by the organizers (F. Livolant, V. Lorman, C. Micheletti i R. Podgornik).
2012, June – „From Solid State to Biophysics VI“, Cavtat, Croatia, ”Condensed DNA toroids in bacteriophage capsids”, invited by dr. Laszlo Forro.
2012, May – Workshop on „New Challenges in Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter“, University of Toulouse III, Toulouse, France, ”Charge distributions and electrostatic interactions in viruses”, invited by dr. Jure Dobnikar.
2011, December – Seminar of the Croatian Biophysics Society, Institute „Ruđer Bošković“, Zagreb, Croatia, ”Introduction to physics of viruses”, invited by dr. Sanja Tomić and dr. Tomislav Vuletić.
2011, February – Seminar of the Croatian Biophysics Society, Zagreb, Croatia, ”Elasticity on nano-scale: graphene, viruses and plastic bottles”, invited by dr. Tomislav Vuletić.
2010, September – Regional biophysics conference, Primošten, Croatia, ”Interactions governing virus self-assembly”, invited by dr. Bojan Žagrović.
2008, June – „From Solid State to Biophysics IV“, Cavtat, Croatia, ”Elasticity of viral capsids”, invited by dr. Laszlo Forro,
2007, October – 5th scientific meeting of Croatian physical society, Primošten, Croatia, ”Role of electrostatic interactions in the assembly of RNA viruses”, invited by prof. dr. Antonije Dulčić.
2007, June – Salon Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb, ”Origin of shape and structure: a phyisical point of view”, invited by Marinko Mišković.
2007, April – Faculty of mathematics and physics, colloquium of the Department of physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ”Energetics of bucky-assemblies from an elementary application of the theory of elasticity”, invited by prof. dr. Slobodan Žumer.
2007, March – Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia ”Elastic and inelastic scattering of inert thermal energy atoms from surfaces”, invited by prof. dr. Peter Prelovšek.
2007, March – Institute of physics of the complex matter – IPMC, Lausanne, Switzerland, ”Energetics of bucky-assemblies from an elementary application of the theory of elasticity”, invited by prof. dr. Laszlo Forro.
2007, February – Faculty of chemical engineering and technology, AMACIZ colloquium, Zagreb, ”Architecture of Buckminster Fuller and shapes and energetics of sp2 carbon and viruses”, invited by dr. Mirela Leskovac.
2006, December – Christmas Biophysics Workshop 2006, Zagreb, “Shapes and energetics of bucky-assemblies”, invited by dr. Silvija Tomić.
2006, June – Math/Chem/Comp 2006, Dubrovnik, “Carbon sp2 shapes, viruses and theory of elasticity” invited by dr. Ante Graovac.
2005, November – Institute “Ruđer Bošković”, Zagreb, Croatia, theoretical chemistry group colloquium “Log-derivative approach to the method of coupled channels: application to bound and scattering states” invited by dr. Nađa Došlić.
2005, June – Math/Chem/Comp 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia, “Cuboctahedral and icosahedral Lennard-Jones clusters: ground states and vibrations”, invited by dr. Ante Graovac
2004, September – IV International conference on science, art and culture, Lošinj, Croatia, “Quantum mechanics and thermodynamics of gases physisorbed in carbon nanotubes”, invited by the organizers (prof. dr. Renzo Rosei)
2003, September – 4th scientific meeting of Croatian physical society, Zagreb, Croatia, “From the gases adsorbed in carbon nanotubes to pineapples and the Durham cathedral”, invited by dr. Eduard Tutiš.
2003, July – Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany (Sondersforschungsbereich 558 seminar, invited by prof. dr. Christof Wöll), “Quantum mechanics and thermodynamics of gases physisorbed in carbon nanotube materials”
2001, December - Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany (seminar of the Physical Chemistry department, invited by prof. dr. Christof Wöll), “Various applications of method of coupled channels in atom/molecule scattering from surface”
2000, December - Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany (seminar of the Physical Chemistry department, invited by prof. dr. Christof Wöll), “The mystery of “X”-mode in He atom scattering from Xe(111) surface”
Popular-science and science-related lectures
2019., April – Festival of science, Opatija, “Colors are in us” invited by Neva Slani.
2019., April – Festival of science, Pula, “Which colors you need to color the world?”, invited by prof. Mario Turić from Technical school in Pula.
2018., October – Split University Library, panel-discussion „Debunking Neoliberalism: How Art Can Help Imagine Different Worlds”, Third International Symposium of Students of English, Croatian and Italian Studies. Invited by the organizers (Andrea Jović).
2017., November – The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, „How to resist force and injustice: spine as an antigravity machine”, a lecture in context of retrospective exhibition of Vjenceslav Richter “A rebel with a vision”, invited by Nada Beroš.
2017., June– Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, “What do we mean when we say ‘life’?”, a lecture within an interdisciplinary scientific public discussion “Human rights of women and their reproductive status in Croatia society”, invited by prof. dr. Branka Galić.
2017., February – Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb, a walk through exhibition "Dalibor Martinis: Data Recovery 1969 – 2077" with Dalibor Martinis, the author, invited by Leila Topić, the curator of the exhibition.
2017., January – Public institution „Kamenjak“, Premantura, „Engineering as life, life as engineering and engineering of life“. Invited by David Pauletta.
2016, December– The Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, moderation of panel “Viruses: from a molecule to a pandemic”. Speakers: Mirna Ćurković Perica and Bernard Kaić. Invited by Ismena Meić.
2016, October– Festival of Science, Sinj, “The end of science? The end of the world?”. Invited by Mislav Cvitković and Mate Jagnjić.
2016, April– Festival of Science, Pula, “Art and science of Leonardo da Vinci”. Invited by prof. Mario Turić.
2015, November– Festival of Science, Sinj, “How do extraterrestrial seashells look like?”. Invited by mag. phys. Mislav Cvitković.
2015, February– The Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, moderation of panel “Teleology of shape”. Speakers: Idis Turato and Primož Ziherl. Invited by Ismena Meić.
2014, October– 17th Rijeka Convention of fantasy, RiKon,“Viruses: scenation of the destruction of specie“. Invited by Nela Dunato.
2014, August– Summer camp of young mathematicians, Pazin, “Viruses: mathematically deadly”. Invited by mag. inf. et math Nikola Adžaga.
2014, March– 15th Istrian Convention of fantasy and SF – Istrakon, Pazin, “Intervention in biology: nano-bio-materials and evolution of nano-X-men”. Invited by Gorana Družeta.
2014, March– The Zagreb City Libraries, Zagreb, moderation of panel “Nanotechnology”. Speakers: M. Kralj, S. Marion and T. Vuletić. Invited by Ismena Meić.
2014, February– Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb, retrospective exhibition of Vojin Bakić “Light-bearing forms”, exhibition guiding “Beyond the curtain of the world: In the search for basic shape” invited by Nataša Ivančević.
2013, December– Skeptics in a pub, Movie pub, Zagreb, “Where physics and biology and alive and dead meet: viruses”, invited by Dinko Milakić
2013, April– Union of technical culture, Pula, Festival of science, “Viruses: creatures from nowehere”, invited by Mario Turić
2012, December– Institute for philosophy, Zagreb, round table discussion “Relationship between philosophy and science”, together with Hrvoje Štefančić, Tim Maudlin and Pavel Gregorić
2012, April– Gymnasium for natural sciences and technics, Split, lecture “Intervention in biology: nano-bio-materials and evolution of super-human” within the Nanochannels EU
Commission project, invited by Ana Bedalov.
2012, February – Institute of physics, Zagreb, lecture for highschool students “Made of graphene” invited by dr. sc. Marko Kralj.
2011, September – Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb, retrospective exhibition of Ivan Ladislav Galeta “Zero-point landscape: experiments and research”, lecture “Construction of reality: postmodern in modern physics” invited by Nada Beroš and Tihomir Milovac.
2011, March – Open day of the Institute of physics, Zagreb, “How I built da Vinci’s temple”, invited by dr. Osor Barišić
2010, June – Martina Kramer exhibition in Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, ”On the visualization of invisible in science”.
2010, April – Festival of science, Sinj, ”Friend or foe :or: How physicists view viruses”, invited by Mate Jagnjić and Mislav Cvitković, students of physics in Split and Zagreb.
2009, March – Open day of the Institute of physics, Zagreb, ”Stereo sound. How about stereo image?”, invited by dr. Tomislav Vuletić
2008, October – Stories for big kids, bookstore RiBook, Rijeka, discussion about science, invited by Ognjen Strpić
2008, September – 3rd Trash Film Festival, Varaždin, “Stereo vision and 3D images and movies”, invited by Jurica Hižak
2008, April – Observatory in Zagreb, “Stereo vision and 3D image”, invited by dr. Darije Maričić
2008, April – Open Day of the Institute of Physics, Zagreb, “Stereo vision and 3D image”, invited by dr. Marko Kralj
2007, August – Višnjan, S3++, “Carbon architecture at the nanometer scale”, invited by Branimir Lukić
2006, April – HKD Sušak, Rijeka, Festival of science, “Nanometer pieces of platonic beauty and architecture of Buckminster Fuller”, invited by prof. dr. Rajka Jurdana-Šepić.
2005, September– Pazinski kolegij gymnasium, Pazin, “A story about the structure of matter”, invited by prof. Mario Turić.
2005, May – High school in Gospić, Croatian state competition in physics, “Meeting of sciences on a nanometer scale”, invited by prof. dr. Krešo Zadro.
2005, April – Geodesic technical high school, Zagreb, “Atomic landscapes”, invited by prof. Ardoja Ornik.
2005, March – 7th Croatian symposium on lecturing physics: Role of models and modeling
in teaching physics, Šibenik, “Spheres within spheres – popular-science movie in the making”.
2005, March – Institute of physics, Zagreb, “Shapes in energy landscape”, Festival ”Beauty of physics”, invited by dr. Ivica Aviani.
2005, February – Faculty of physics, Zagreb, “From stamp collecting to physics – the science for 21st century”, invited by prof. Ivica Buljan.
2004, December – Faculty of physics, Zagreb, student club “Ćumez”, “Science to the people”.
2004, April – Technical museum, Zagreb, Festival of science, “Meeting of sciences on a nanometer scale”, invited by the organizers (Davor Fulanović).
2004, April – XV gymnasium, Zagreb, “Introduction to nanoscience and nanotechnology”, invited by prof. Željko Jakopović.
2004, March – Meeting of the teachers of physics, chemistry and biology, “Meeting of sciences on a nanometer scale”, invited by prof. Matko Babić.
2004, March – Institute of physics, Zagreb, “Brave New Nano-world and how to bring a scientific result to life”, invited by dr. Ognjen Milat
Teaching
2014/2015 – „Molecular biophysics“, undergraduate study of physics at Faculty of mathematics and physics in Ljubljana, Slovenia; the program of internationalization of University of Ljubljana, financed by EU.
2011-2019 – “Molecular biophysics”, PhD study of physics (biophysics), Faculty of Natural Science, University of Zagreb
Mentoring
Doctoral dissertations Sanjin Marion (February 2017), “Compaction of nucleic acids: physical mechanisms and biological relevance”, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics
Diploma works Kristijan Kunštek (July, 2010), „Representation of the effect of complex optical elements using a method of ray-tracing“, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics Berislav Buča (September, 2011), „Elements of theory of stochastic processes in biophysics and econophysics“, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics Bruno Paun (September, 2011), „Investigation of caustic using the method of raytracing and comparison with experiments“, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics Marko Marelja (December, 2012), „Simulation of non-spherical mirrors and anamorph images using raytracing“, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics Ivor Krešić (March, 2013), „Modification of Poisson-Boltzmann equation to account for steric effects“, University of Zagreb, Faculty of physics
Other and additional
A. Šiber has created many scientific illustrations of professional quality, including the cover pages of journals and books. More prominent works include:
Cover page for the book „Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Device Physics“, Cambridge University Press (2010) (carbon-nanotube-like structure over the wavy sea water). Cover page for the book “Electrostatics of Soft and Disordered Matter“, Pan Stanford Publishing, CRC Press (2014) (polymer on a lattice) Cover page for Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. journal 14(11), 2012 (CMV virus) Cover page for Soft Matter journal, September 2012 (vesicles, microscopy images). Cover page for Advanced Materials journal, 22 (35), 2010 (graphene). Cover page for Soft Matter journal, October 2008 (vesicles in interactions). Graphics for News & Views Nature Physics 10, 185 (2014) article “A triangular affair” by M. Engel and S. C. Glotzer, February 2014 (a quasi-crystalline vitrail)
He was a finalist of the “International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2012” by National Science Foundation in category “posters & graphics”. He held a series of four lectures on scientific visualization, “Introduction to scientific visualization with crash courses in postscript and POV-Ray” on Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Ljubljana, 13-14. 5. 2013. He exhibited two computer generated illustration in Tivoli in Ljubljana within ehxibition „Matematika in fizika v sliki“ (Mathematics and physics in pictures) organized by Faculty of mathematics and physics in Ljubljana on the occasion of 100 years of University of Ljubljana.
In seasons 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, he has participated in weekly talk-show broadcast “Peti dan” (“The fifth day”) of Croatian television. Other participants were Nadežda Čačinovič, Mima Simić, Dean Duda, Nino Raspudić, Rada Borić and Marija Selak. The show dealt with issues of great scope, from all sorts of social phenomena, political actualities to science and culture.
For more than 10 years he has been blogging on a weekly basis (see antoniosiber.org).