[1] He received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1980.
He was award a PhD in the same field after working under the supervision of professors Howard Davis and L. E.
[2] After receiving his doctorate, Zasadzinski spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the AT&T Bell Laboratories.
In 1986, Zasadzinski joined the chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[4] He was awarded the status of Fellow[5] in the American Physical Society,[6] after he was nominated by his Division of Biological Physics in 2008,[7] 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.