Education
PhD in physics | Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana | 2017
MSc in physics | Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana | 2013
BSc in physics | Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana | 2011
High school graduate | I. Grammar School in Celje | 2008
Employment
Research associate | Department of theoretical physics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana | 2021-
Postdoctoral associate | Lewis Sigler institute for integrative genomics, Princeton University | 2017-2019
Postdoctoral associate | Department of theoretical physics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana | 2017, 2019-2021
Research assistant (PhD student) | Department of theoretical physics, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana | 2013-2017
Awards, scholarships, fellowships, grants
ARIS research grant J1-60013| Topology, geometry, and mechanics of natural space-filling packings | 2025-2027
RSF FUTURE grant RSF-0040| MEchanics, Topology, And Geometry of natural Optimizing Networks | 2024-2028
ARIS bilateral grant BI-US/24-26-023| Multiscale model of tumors embedded in elastic substrates | 2024-2026
ARIS research grant J1-3009| Nonlinear mechanics of biological tissues and their tumors | 2021-2024
ARIS research grant Z1-1851 | Active biological matter | 2019-2021
EMBO short-term fellowship | 2016
Ad Futura grant | 2015
Grant of the French government (Intitut Francais) | 2015
Quantissue short-term fellowship | 2013
Prešeren Prize | The University of Ljubljana award for outstanding master’s thesis | 2013
Jozef Stefan Institute’s scholarship | 2011-2013
Zois Scholarship | The national scholarship for exceptional students | 2004-2011