In 1986, Zasadzinski joined the chemical engineering faculty at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He left UCSB in 2011 to return to the University of Minnesota to join the faculty there. Zasadzinski is on the editorial board of the
Biophysical Journal. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the
American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of
Biological Physics in 2008, for "applying physical principles of self-assembly, directed assembly and
bio-mimicry to create well-controlled
lipid structures such as unilamellar
vesicles and "
vesosomes" for biomedical applications such as targeted drug-delivery vehicles and treatments for respiratory diseases, and for developing new microscopies." ==Awards==