Dr. Luka Pocivavsek is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. He is a vascular surgeon who specializes in peripheral vascular, cerebrovascular, and aortic disease. He received his MD and PhD from The University of Chicago, as well as a BS in physics and BA in history from Duke University. He completed …
Anamarija Šporčič is a TA in the field of English-language literatures at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana). She received her bachelor’s degree in English and doctoral degree in literary studies (within the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences) from the institution where she now teaches. She was …
Prof. Matjaž Zwitter, MD, PhD is a consultant in oncology and radiotherapy. During 41 years of his work at the Institute of Oncology in Ljubljana, he covered a broad spectrum of activities. When serving as the director of the Institute (1991-1995), his role was crucial in implementation of plans for an urgently needed renovation. He …
Primož Ziherl is a professor of Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana and a scientific councilor at the Jožef Stefan Institute. He got his PhD in 1998 from the University of Ljubljana and then worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pennsylvania. He was visiting professor …
Petra Weingerl is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor. Petra completed her doctorate and Magister Juris (Dist.) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. Before commencing her DPhil, she worked at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg and at Higher (Appellate) Court in Ljubljana. …
Zdenko Časar is a Head of Early Stage Development in the pharmaceutical company Lek d. d. and a senior research associate at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, UL. He holds a PhD in co-mentorship from the Ecole Doctorale Sciences de la Matière, Université …
Ivan Bratko is professor of Computer Science at University of Ljubljana. He pioneered AI research in Slovenia. His most visible contributions are in machine learning, (inductive) logic programming and learning qualitative models, with applications in medicine, ecology and robotics. Recently, he has been interested in interpretable learning and planning with small data, and estimating difficulty …
Damijan Miklavčič was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1963. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana in 1993. He is currently a tenured Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana. His current research interests include electroporation-based treatments and therapies, including cancer treatment by means …