Resume

Experience

Postdoc at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia from Jan., 1996 to present:

• Photoinduced absorption in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x family of high T_c compounds.

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (former Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics Department), Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Quantum Optics Laboratory, Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, P.O.B. 3000, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia, from Oct. 1989 to Jan. 1996:

• Study of charge carrier dynamics and charge-carrier optical-phonon interaction in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x family of high T_c compounds by using pulsed resonant Raman spectroscopy.
• Study of doping dependence of Raman phonon spectra in various high-T_c materials.
• Design and construction of a ps optical fibre pulse compressor for a 100 ps mode locked Nd-YAG laser pulses.

International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, March 1992 to June 1992, March 1991 to April 1991 and April 1990 to June 1990:

• Preparation of high Tc superconducting ceramics and basic characterisation: resistivity, AC susceptibility, X-ray diffraction, IR absorption

Education

• Ph.D. degree in Physics, Jan., 1996 from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jadranska 19, 61111 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  The title of the thesis: Influence of doping on optical phonons in high temperature superconductors.
• M.Sc. degree in Physics, Jan., 1993. The work was done at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of natural sciences, Physics Department, Jadranska 19, 61111 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  The title of the thesis: Correlations between critical temperature, oxygen-phonon frequencies and interatomic distances as a function of doping in (Tl_0.5Pb_0.5)Sr₂(Ca_1-yY_y)Cu₂O₇.
• Habilitation for teaching assistant in physics, 1993, Faculty of natural sciences, Physics Department, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• B. Sc. 1989, university study of physics at the Faculty of natural sciences, Physics Department, University of Ljubljana, from 1985 to 1989.

Teaching experience

• Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (former Faculty of natural sciences, Physics Department), University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia from 1989 to present.
• Assistant for Physics course I, Laboratory exercises I, Laboratory exercises III. Approx. 4 hours per week from 1989 to present.

Prizes

• 1989 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Science and Technology: The Presern prize for B. Sc. work Compression of optical pulses by means of optical fibre
• 1998 Institute Jozef Stefan: The Jozef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize Award for Ph.D. thesis.

Personal

• born 4. Nov. 1965 in Jesenice, Slovenia
• citizenship: Slovene
• marital status: married
• children: 1
• languages: Slovene - mother tongue, English fluent

Home address: Praprotnikova 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, tel.+386 61 216 881