Education:
- (1989) BSc in Biology from the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana
- (1992) MSc in Biology from the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana; title of the thesis: Morphology of Digestive Tract and Accumulation of Heavy Metals in the Digestive Tract of Isopods
- (1996) PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana; title of the thesis: The Toxicity of Zinc to Terrestrial Isopods
Positions held at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana:
- (2008-present) Head of the Research group for nanobiology and nanotoxicology at the Department of biology
- (2008-present) Full Professor of Zoology
- (2007-present) Full Professor of Toxicology
- (2004-present) Vice Head of the Department of biology
Fellowships:
- (2004-2007) Visiting Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy (one to two months per year) in the frame of joined Italian-Slovene bilateral project BI-IT/05-08-022
- (1997-1998) TEMPUS Fellowship for study visits of Free University of Amsterdam in Netherlands (two weeks)
- (1997) NATO Fellowship for NATO workshop on the Danube River Basin at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary (two weeks) and at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (two weeks)
- (1995-1996) TEMPUS Fellowship for study visits of University of Copenhagen in Denmark (four weeks) and University of Padova in Italy (two weeks)
- (1992) TEMPUS Fellowship for six months stay at University of Reading in UK
- (1991) CDG Fellowship for six weeks visit of Heidelberg Institute of Zoology at Heidelberg University in Germany
Awards:
- (2009) Nominated by the Slovenian society of young researches and selected among best 5 advisers of the year
- (1995) SETAC Young Scientist Award for the best presented paper at 5th SETAC Conference in Copenhagen
Partnerships in large Slovenian projects (recent):
- (1999-2014) Investigations in zoology and speleobiology
- (2009-2013) Center of excellence: Advanced Materials and Technologies for the Future
- (2009-2013) Center of excellence: Nanosciences and nanotechnologies
Partnerships in large EU projects (recent):
- (2011-2015) Large-scale integrating EU FP7 project NanoValid (263147)
Supervisor or co-supervisor for doctoral dissertation (PhD):
- Supervisor: Primož ZIDAR (2000); Luka DRINOVEC (2002); Aleš LAPANJE (2005); Nataša NOLDE (2006); Anita JEMEC (2008); Vladka LEŠER (2009); Janez VALANT (2010); Marjetka KRALJ KUNCIC (2010)
- Co-Supervisor: Agron MILLAKU (2010); Jernej ZUPANC (2011)
Memberships in societies:
- Society for environmental toxicology and chemistry (SETAC)
- Slovenian toxicological society
- Slovenian society for microscopy
Memberships in councils:
- Programme council of Doctoral study of Biomedicine at University of Ljubljana
- Programme council of Doctoral study of Biosciences at University of Ljubljana
- Head of the Doctoral committee at Biotechnical faculty
- (2011-present) Member of the editorial board of scientific journal Protoplasma (Springer)
Cooperation with industry:
Dissemination of scientific results:
- (2011-present) Member of a board on genetically modified organisms (GMO) at Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Government of the Republic of Slovenia
- (2010, 2012) Lectures on safety of nanoproducts at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (CCIS)
