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Irina Martynenko

Assistant Professor
Center for Engineering Physics

Dr. Irina Martynenko is interested in molecular self-assembly approaches in general and particularly in the engineering of optical devices using the DNA origami method. She focuses on integrating self-assembled DNA nanostructures with lithographically defined environments. Her research aims to develop artificial assemblies with nanoscale architectures, operating at the molecular level and reaching macroscopic dimensions.

Dr. Irina Martynenko completed her PhD in physics and mathematics in 2015 at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Following her PhD, she conducted research periods at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (2018-2019) in Berlin and at Harvard University (2019-2020). During her postdoctoral appointment in the group of Prof. Dr. Tim Liedl at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, she focused on developing an advanced experimental technique for placing DNA origami on lithographically-patterned surfaces, enabling the precise positioning of optical nanocomponents with molecular-level resolution.  She is an author or co-author of more than 20 international refereed journal papers, and more than 30 conference contributions, including 3 invited talks at international conferences.

  • DNA self assembly techniques, DNA origami, DNA nanotechnology
  • nanofabrication, multi-scale fabrication, nanolithography
  • hybrid nanomaterials
  • nanophotonics

Selected publication:

  1. I. V. Martynenko* (corresponding author); E. Erber; V. Ruider; M. Dass; G. Posnjak; Yin; P. Altpeter; T. Liedl, Site-directed placement of three-dimensional DNA origami. Nature Nanotechnol. (2023), 1-7. DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01487-z.
  2. C. Sikeler, F. Haslinger, I. V. Martynenko, T. Liedl, DNA Origami‐Directed Self‐Assembly of Gold Nanospheres for Plasmonic Metasurfaces. Advanced Functional Materials (2024), 2404766. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202404766.
  3. J. Kolbeck; M. Dass; I. V. Martynenko* (corresponding author); R. J. van Dijk-Moes; J. Brouwer; A. van Blaaderen; W. Vanderlinden; T. Liedl; J. Lipfert, DNA origami fiducial for accurate 3D atomic force microscopy imaging.
    Nano Lett. (2023), 23 (4), 1236-1243. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04299.
  4. I. V. Martynenko; V. Ruider; M. Dass; T. Liedl; P. C. Nickels, DNA origami meets bottom-up nanopatterning.
    ACS nano (2021), 15 (7), 10769-10774. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c04297.
  5. I. V. Martynenko; A. S. Baimuratov; V. A. Osipova; V. A. Kuznetsova; F. Purcell-Milton; D. Rukhlenko; A. V. Fedorov; Y. K. Gun’ko; U. Resch-Genger; A. V. Baranov, Excitation energy dependence of the photoluminescence quantum yield of core/shell CdSe/CdS quantum dots and correlation with circular dichroism. Chem. Mater. (2018), 30 (2), 465-471. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04478.
  • Emmy Noether grantee, 2024.
  • The Center for NanoScience (CeNS) Publication Award 2023, category “Scientific breakthrough”.
  • QBio Research Fellow in NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Harvard, 2019.
  • Adolph Martens Fellow, 2017.
  • Grant of Government of St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015.
  • President of Russia Scholarship for young scientists, 2015.
  • Grant of Government of St. Petersburg, Russia, 2014.
  • Carl Zeiss Postgraduate Scholarship, 2013.