Guolong Zhu

Guolong Zhu

Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics

CONTACT INFORMATION

Courses

  • University Physics I and Lab
  • University Physics II and Lab
  • Biophysics
  • Biophysical Modelling
  • Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Research

  • Soft Condensed Matter Physics
  • Colloidal Physics, Micro and Nano
  • Biophysics
  • DNA Nanotechnology
  • Artificial Cellular Machines and Nano Robots
  • Optical Tweezers
  • Self-Assembly
  • Self-Replication

Education

  • BS, Stockton University
  • PhD, New York University
  • Postdoc, Columbia University

Academic Profile

Dr. Guolong Zhu was born and grew up in Shandong Province of China, and then moved to the United States for a bachelor’s degree in Physics at Stockton University in New Jersey. Afterward, he started his Ph.D. study at New York University, mentored by Physics Professor Paul Chaikin (Emeritus at Princeton) and Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman on Soft Condensed Matter Physics and DNA nanotechnology. After concluding his Ph.D. study in December 2019, he continued his research in Colloidal Physics and DNA nanotechnology at Columbia University with Professor Oleg Gang in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Sciences. During the three years’ postdoc training, he also collaborated with the Electrical Engineering department at Columbia, conducted some research at the Center for Functionalized Nanomaterials of Brookhaven National Lab, and characterized samples in the imaging suite at the Graduate Research Center of City University of New York.

            Dr. Zhu joined Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) as an Assistant Professor of Physics (Tenure-track) after postdoc training in August 2022. Besides teaching, he continues his research with his undergraduate students and the faculty at FDU, collaborating with his previous advisors, as well as some new external collaborators, in Colloids and Biophysics. His current projects involve studies on a Tri-state logic gate realized by a DNA origami platform, colloidal motors activated by RNase H enzyme, controlling orientation of inhomogeneous geometric DNA origami by microfluidics, Self-assembly and Self-replication demonstrated with DNA origami, etc.

A list of publications can be found from the links below:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TU19Kw8AAAAJ&hl=en

https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8893-5617

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