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Dr. Paul Zaslansky

Dr. Paul Zaslansky

Contact:
Address: Max Planck Institute
of Colloids and Interfaces
Department of Biomaterials
Research Campus Potsdam-Golm
14424 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49(0)331/567-9439
Fax: +49(0)331/567-9402
E-mail: paul.zaslansky

 

Education:

2005-present

Postdoctoral position, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Potsdam. Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Fratzl Research topics: structural characterization of tooth dentin and enamel interface, elastic deformation properties of teeth and bones, non-contact non-destructive testing and in-situ measurements of displacement of structural features of these tissues during stress: mechanical, hydration etc.
2000-2005: Ph.D in Chemistry, Dept. of Structural Biology, Biomineralization group, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Research topic: Human tooth - structure function relations, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Steve Weiner in conjunction with Prof. A. A. Friesem (optical metrology and digital holography)
1985-1991 Doctor of Medical Dentistry (DMD), The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine. Combined degree Bachelor of Medical Sciences (B.Med.Sc.) Subject of DMD Thesis: "Computerized characteristics of CT-sialography of space occupying lesions in the parotid gland", conducted under the supervision of Prof. Zajicek G. and Dr. D. Schwartz-Arad
Employment and Experience:

2005-present

Postdoctoral researcher in the Biomaterials dept., Tooth and tooth-related research in the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam. Specific fields of activity: SEM, Raman microscopy, Speckle interferometry, micro-CT and Synchrotron measurements (Bessy, ESRF)
2000-2005: Ph.D research - Weizmann Institute of Science Investigation of structural features in human teeth related to the mastication functions; Biomechanical evaluation of material responses to stress and stress-strain relations, measurements of deformation using non-contact coherent optical metrology
1992-2005
Dental Surgeon, Patient treatment in private practice. Practice limited to advanced restorative techniques: Adhesive composite restorations, minimal invasive dentistry (MID): wet composite bonding etc.
1991-1997 Dental surgeon, public and private dental clinics including civil service
Publications:
    Weiner, S. and Zaslansky, P.
    Structure-mechanical function relations in bones and teeth". In “Learning From Nature How to Design New Implantable Biomaterials: From Biomineralization Fundamentals to Biomimetic Materials and Processing Routes
    Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Eds. R.L. Reis and S. Weiner, NATO Science series: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Vol. 171, pp 3-14, Kluwer Press, 2004

    Weiner, S. and Zaslansky, P.
    Teeth: Structural-mechanical design properties
    Encyclopedia of Materials: science and technology on line, , KHJ Buschow et al eds. 2004 (http://www1.elsevier.com/emsat/).

    P. Zaslansky, G. Pedrini, I Alexeenko, W. Osten, S. Weiner, R. Shahar
    Static and Dynamic Interferometric Measurements Used to Determine Mechanical Properties of Cortical Bone
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM12) Bari, Italy 2004.

    I. Alexeenko, G. Pedrini, P. Zaslansky , E. Kuzmina, W. Osten, S. Weiner
    Digital Holographic Interferometry for the Investigation of the Elastic Properties of Bone
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM12) Bari, Italy 2004

    P. Zaslansky, J.D. Currey , A.A. Friesem , S. Weiner
    Phase shifting speckle interferometry for determination of strain and Young's modulus of mineralized biological materials: a study of tooth dentin compression in water
    J. Biomed. Opt. 10 (2), 024020 (2005).

    Giancarlo Pedrini, I. Alexeenko, P. Zaslansky, Hans J. Tiziani, and Wolfgang Osten
    Digital holographic interferometry for investigations in biomechanics
    Proc. SPIE 5776, 325 (2005).

    P. Zaslansky, A. A. Friesem and S. Weiner
    Structure and mechanical properties of the soft zone separating bulk dentin and enamel in crowns of human teeth: Insight into tooth function
    J. Struct. Biol. 153 (2)188-199, (2006) .

    S. Weiner, F. Nudelman, E. Sone, P. Zaslansky and L. Addadi
    Mineralized biological materials: A perspective on interfaces and interphases designed over millions of years
    Biointerphases, 1 (2) 12–14, (2006).

    P. Zaslansky, R. Shahar, A. A. Friesem and S. Weiner
    Relations Between Shape, Materials Properties and Function in Biological Materials Using Laser Speckle Interferometry: In-situ Tooth Deformation
    Adv. Funct. Mater. 16, 1925-1936, (2006).

    S. Zabler, H. Riesemeier, P. Fratzl and P. Zaslansky
    Fresnel-propagated imaging for the study of human tooth dentin by partially coherent x-ray tomography
    Opt. Express 14 (19) 8584-8597, (2006).

    P. Zaslansky, R. Shahar, M. M. Barak, A. A. Friesem, and S. Weiner
    Tooth and bone deformation: structure and material properties by ESPI
    Proc. SPIE 6341, 634109 in: "Speckle, from Grains to Flowers" P. Slangen, C. Cerruti eds, Nimes, France (2006).

    H. S. Gupta , J. Seto, W. Wagermaier, P. Zaslansky, P. Boesecke, and P. Fratzl
    Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale
    PNAS 103: 17741-17746, 2006; (EPUB as 10.1073/pnas.0604237103)

    R. Shahar, P. Zaslansky, M. Barak, A.A. Friesem, J.D. Currey and S. Weiner
    Anisotropic Poisson's ratio and compression modulus of cortical bone determined by speckle interferometry
    J. Biomech 40, 252-264 , 2007 (EPUB: doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.01.021)

    P. Zaslansky, S. Weiner
    Design Strategies of Human Teeth: Biomechanical Adaptations
    In: Bauerlein, E., Behrens, P. and Epple, M. (eds.). Handbook of Biomineralization. Vol. 3. Chapter 15. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2007

    U. Blunck, P. Zaslansky
    Effectiveness of All-in-one Adhesive Systems Tested by Thermocycling Following Short and Long-term Water storage
    J. Adhes. Dent. 9(2):231-240 (2007).

    S. Zabler, A. Rueda, A. Rack, H. Riesemeier, P. Zaslansky, I. Manke, F. Garcia-Moreno and J. Banhart
    Coarsening of grain-refined semi-solid Al–Ge32 alloy: X-ray microtomography and in situ radiography
    Acta Mater. 55(15):5045-5055 (2007).

    Simon Zabler, Peter Cloetens, Paul Zaslansky
    Fresnel-propagated sub-micron X-ray imaging of water-immersed tooth dentin
    Opt. Lett. 32(20) 2987-2989 (2007).

    Seto, HS. Gupta, P. Zaslansky, H. D. Wagner, P. Fratzl
    Tough Lessons From Bone: Extreme Mechanical Anisotropy at the Mesoscale
    Adv. Func. Mater 18 (13), 1905-1911, 2008

    P. Zaslansky
    Dentin
    In Fratzl P. (ed) Collagen: Structure and Mechanics, Springer New York, 2008

    P. Zaslansky, S. Zabler , P. Fratzl
    Tubule orientation variations in human dentin: key modulations of structure or function?
    Transactions of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Dental Materials, Würzburg, Germany.

    H. Gupta, S. Krauss, J. Seto, W. Wagermaier, M. Kerschnitzki, G. Benecke, P. Zaslansky, P. Boesecke, S.S. Funari, H.O.K Kirchner, P. Fratzl
    Nanoscale deformation mechanisms in bone
    Bone 44 (1), S33-4 (DOI 10.1016/j.bone.2009.01.084), 2009

    A. Marten, P. Fratzl, O. Paris, P. Zaslansky
    On the mineral in collagen of human crown dentine
    Biomaterials 31 (20):5479-90, 2010

    Y. Politi, D.R. Batchelor, P. Zaslansky, B.F. Chmelka, J.C. Weaver, I. Sagi, S. Weiner, L. Addadi
    Role of Magnesium Ion in the Stabilization of Biogenic Amorphous Calcium Carbonate: A Structure-Function Investigation
    Chem. Mater. 22 (1):161-166 2010

    P. Zaslansky, S. Zabler, P. Fratzl
    3D variations in human crown dentin tubule orientation: a phase-contrast microtomography study
    Dent Mater 26 (1):e1-10 2010

    U. Blunck, P. Zaslansky
    Enamel Margin Integrity of Class I One-bottle All-in-one Adhesives-based restorations
    J. Adhesive dent., doi:10.3290/j.jad.a18445, 2010

    P. Zaslansky, P. Fratzl, A. Rack, M-K Wu, P. R. Wesselink and H. Shemesh
    Identification of root filling interfaces by microscopy and tomography methods
    Int. ndod. J (In press), 2011



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