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Stjepan Marčelja (Zagreb, 1941) completed BS in Zagreb and PhD in Physics at the U of Rochester, NY (1970). Most of his active years were at the Australian National University, between 1975 and 2000. He left in 2001 to accept the position of the Director of the Institute Ruđer Bošković, the premier multidisciplinary science institute in Croatia. From 2005 until the mandatory age retirement, he was a Professor at the University of Split in Croatia, after which he returned to the ANU where he is an Honorary Professor.
Marčelja worked on a wide range of topics in biophysics and chemical physics. His best works are early contributions to the nature of ordering in membrane structures and liquid crystals, the discovery of the scheme of information recording in the visual cortex and the nature of surface interactions in multivalent ionic solutions (with R. Kjellander). The full list of topics is available at https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=gYVtudAAAAAJ&hl=en.