Ana-Nicoleta Bondar is a full professor of physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania, and currently a visiting professor at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Germany. Prior to this, she led the theoretical molecular biophysics group at the Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics. Dr. Bondar’s research is focused on methodological developments and applications for membrane proteins. Durba Sengupta is Principle Scientist and Assistant Professor at the Physical Chemistry DivisionCSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. The main objective of Dr Sengupta’s research group is to understand self organisation and self-assembly in complex bio-systems, using the tools of physical chemistry. The current focus of her research is membrane biology and understanding the structure, dynamics and functions of proteins, lipids, sugars and sterols within the membrane.
