Davor Juretić was born on October 23, 1944, in Split, Croatia. His main passion in science is understanding the complexity increase of living structures and processes during biological evolution despite high entropy produced and exported to the environment. The conclusion he reached is the following: „Life is the process of channeling partial entropy production into self-maintaining or multiplicative power-producing structures.“Main achievements: Discovery of action mechanism and synergy of magainin antimicrobial peptides; prediction method for finding sequence location of membrane buried helices; the proof and applications of maximal transitional entropy production theorem in enzyme kinetics; discovery and design of new peptide antibiotics classes; construction of servers for computational design of antimicrobial peptides. At the University of Split, Faculty of Science, Croatia, Davor Juretić established the Ph.D. program in biophysics with the help of prof. Stjepan Marčelja and other Croatian biophysicists. DJ has expertise in physics, biophysics, bioinformatics, and bioenergetics and close to 100 scientific publications from these fields: http://juretic.medils.hr/. His most recent book about bioenergetics explores the usefulness of dissecting the entropy production of enzymes involved in cellular defenses, fermentation, respiration, and photosynthesis, assuming that tightly regulated dissipation is the hallmark of Life. The idea that biological evolution accelerates the universe’s thermodynamic evolution as much as possible in favorable circumstances is the reason for the fresh outlook about the essence of Life and bioenergetics presented in that book. Read more about this authorRead less about this author