Jožef Stefan Institute on the basis of the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 186/2021), General Act on Stable Financing of Scientific Research (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 87/2022), Rules on the selection and (co)financing of doctoral students and doctoral students from the program pillar of stable financing of 8. 6. 2022 and the Employment Relationships Act ((Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 21/2013 with amendments) publishes
CALL FOR TENDERS
for candidates for young researchers with
selected mentors
in 2023
All application forms:
The final date is 16 August 2023.
Application forms send to: mr2023@ijs.si.
PhD title
Regular employment
Work in an innovative environment
Working with top experts
International colaboration
Mentors
Biochemistry and molecular biology
Doc. dr. Livija Tušar
Structural biology provides insights in the mechanisms of biological processes by delivering structures of macromolecules that link biological sequence information to their position in 3-dimensional space. This allows us to combine structural information with data...
Chemistry
Prof. dr. Anton Kokalj
A young researcher will focus on research in atomistic materials modeling based on Density-Functional Theory (DFT) methods. A candidate may choose among several topics, ranging from modeling the state-of-the-art functional energy-related materials, modeling novel...
Dr. Melita Tramšek
We would like to invite you to consider pursuing a PhD study in the exciting field of inorganic fluorine chemistry combined with noble gas chemistry. This field of study involves the synthesis and characterization of compounds containing fluorine, which is known for...
Doc. dr. Matej Kanduč
The Ph.D. candidate will work in the biophysics group at the Department of theoretical physics. He/she will join an established research framework of Dr. Kanduc composed of several group members as well as researchers from institutions abroad, predominantly in...
Computer science and informatics
Doc. dr. Tome Eftimov
Prof. dr. Matjaž Gams
Doc. dr. Tea Tušar
Solving real-world optimization problems can be very challenging. Many problems contain multiple conflicting objectives to be optimized simultaneously and are heavily constrained. Moreover, the evaluation of solutions is often performed via simulation, meaning that it...
Control and care of the environment
Electronic components and technologies
Energy
Information and communication technologies
Dr. Tanja Pavleska
The research program "Future Internet Technologies: Concepts, Architectures, Services, and Socio-Economic Aspects" is designed for young researchers who wish to deepen their knowledge of advanced Internet technologies and understand their impact on modern society....
Dr. Ramanpreet Kaur
In our daily lives, we rely more and more on technology, which exposes us to several serious threats in the cyber-physical domain. The relentless evolution of advanced technologies such as Internet of things, mobile, and cloud computing has been instrumental in...
Prof. dr. Borka Jerman Blažič
Dr. Dušan Gabrijelčič
Materials
Dr. Nina Kostevšek
Despite great progress in the field of nanomedicine, most synthetic nanoparticles are recognized by the immune system as foreign, which leads to their rapid removal from the bloodstream and, consequently, a significant reduction in the effectiveness of treatment. New...
Prof. dr. Anton Kokalj
A young researcher will focus on research in atomistic materials modeling based on Density-Functional Theory (DFT) methods. A candidate may choose among several topics, ranging from modeling the state-of-the-art functional energy-related materials, modeling novel...
Prof. dr. Kristina Žužek
Nevrobiology
Physics
Prof. dr. Luka Snoj
Dr. Nerea Sebastian Ugarteche
Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) have been known for years and are broadly exploited in modern display technologies, constituting a multibillion business. The key aspect of their applicability is the unique combination of fluidity, anisotropic physical properties and...
Doc. dr. Natan Osterman
Doc. dr. Mojca Vilfan
Microfluidics is the science and technology that studies the behaviour of fluids in confined geometries. These can be simple, such as straight channels, or they can be of arbitrarily complex shapes, representing a more realistic model of similar systems found in...
Dr. Gašper Kokot
Colloidal active matter are systems of hundreds of microscopic particles driven out-of-equilibrium by external fields. They display non-trivial spontaneous collective organisation into static and dynamic patterns that can be controlled by the driving field. This...
Dr. Igor Vaskivskyi
Strongly-correlated materials, or the materials, in which Coulomb interaction between the electrons cannot be neglected, became of great importance for technology and basic science. They exhibit a rich variety of exciting properties, such as metal-insulator...
Prof. dr. Dragan D. Mihailović
Non-equilibrium states of matter have become of great fundamental and practical interest in recent years because of their wide importance in diverse areas of physics. With the rapid development of new time-resolved techniques, the temporal dynamics of competing...
Prof. dr. Igor Muševič
Prof. dr. Miha Ravnik
Prof. dr. Zdravko Kutnjak
Prof. dr. Andrej Zorko
The young researcher will investigate in the field of quantum materials, more precisely, geometrically frustrated magnetic systems. This is nowadays one of the most thriving fields with many open questions and great potential in emerging quantum technologies. The...
Dr. Rok Podlipec
BACKGROUND One of the major challenges in the field of nanotoxicology remains the discovery and understanding of new mechanisms and initial molecular events that can lead to damage or even permanent consequences in cells and tissues as a result of exposure to various...
Doc. dr. Klemen Bučar
At the Department of low and medium energy physics (F2) we conduct basic nuclear and atomic physics research and apply the obtained knowledge to variety of practical interdisciplinary research problems, such as: environmental radiation monitoring, material research,...
Dr. Anže Rapoš Božič
Doc. dr. Matej Kanduč
The Ph.D. candidate will work in the biophysics group at the Department of theoretical physics. He/she will join an established research framework of Dr. Kanduc composed of several group members as well as researchers from institutions abroad, predominantly in...
Dr. Zala Lenarčič
Driving matter out of equilibrium challenges our understanding and intuition for quantum systems, as well as the imagination to exceed the limitations given by the equilibrium. In our understanding of equilibration of excited quantum systems, exact symmetries play a...
Process mechanical engineering
Systems and cybernetics
Telecommunications
Dr. Jernej Hribar
With the world undergoing a digital and green transition, our daily routines increasingly rely on accurate and available information, inspiring us to demand timely and meaningful data while operating in an energy-efficient manner. These challenges are particularly...
Dr. Carolina Fortuna
Representation learning includes a set of machine learning (ML) techniques that learn to extract a good representation of the raw data. This representation is then used to further train a ML model that can help predict future states or values that support decision...
Prof. dr. Aleš Švigelj
The research programme under which the research will take place is concerned with communications networks and services, with an emphasis on wireless communications, which have permeated all aspects of life and society over the past two decades. The emerging beyond 5G...