PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Quantum Optics Laboratory, J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, POB 3000, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 1993 to present
• Study of surface effects on the orientational fluctuations in ferroelectric and nematic liquid crystals by photon correlation spectroscopy and electrooptic measurements.
• Title of Ph.D. Thesis (still in progress): Dynamical behaviour of liquid crystal in silica aerogel near the nematic-isotropic phase transition
• Study of self-assemblying fullerene nanocapsules by photon-correlation spectroscopy and UV-vis absorption.
• Study of orientational order in a nematic liquid crystal by Raman spectroscopy.

EDUCATION

• graduate study of Electrooptics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, from Oct. 1992 to Jan. 1995.
• B.Sc. 1992, undergraduate study of physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, from Oct. 1987 to Jun. 1992.
• Title of the B.Sc. thesis: Pyroelectric effect in La_2-xSr_xCuO₄

PERSONAL

• born: 21. 1. 1969 in Jesenice, Slovenia
• citizenship: Slovene
• marital status: single
• languages:
• Slovene-mother tongue
• English-fluent
• German-passive