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Brigita Rožič, researcher of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the “Jožef Štefan” Institute, has received the Fulbright grant for her excellent scientific and research work. The Fulbright grant is awarded every year to successful scientists from all over the world. In Slovenia this grant is awarded by the US Embassy in Ljubljana as part of the Fulbright programme financed by the US government. The grant further inspired dr. Rožič for her future research and increased her visibility as well as the visibility of the “Jožef Štefan” Institute. The grant allowed her to do research at the Case Western Reserve University with prof. Charles Rosenblatt’s team, working in an area that was entirely new to her. Furthermore, she loved living in Cleveland, whose many lakes and wonderful environment reminded her of home. Dr. Rožič also received congratulations for the award from the president of the United States.

Dr. Martin Klanjšek, associate of the F5 Department, was awarded the Blinc Award for Extraordinary One-time Achievements for proving the existence of unusual quasiparticles called anyons.

On October 24, 2019, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana and the “Jožef Stefan” Institute awarded the first Blinc awards for research and theoretical work in physics. The awards were founded to celebrate the best physicists and to commemorate Robert Blinc, one of the sharpest Slovenian researchers and a member of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.

Two other awards were bestowed in addition to the Blinc Award for Extraordinary One-time Achievements: prof. dr. Matjaž Perc from the Faculty of Natural sciences and Mathematics was awarded the Blinc Award for Physicist at the Beginning of their Career and prof. dr. Peter Prelovšek, the most visible Slovenian researcher in the field of theoretical physics of condensed matter in Slovenian and abroad, received the Blinc Award for Lifetime Achievement.

1. Aleksander Matavž, Andreja Benčan, Janez Kovač, Ching-Chang Chung, Jacob L. Jones, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Barbara Malič, Vid Bobnar, “Additive manufacturing of ferroelectric-oxide thin-film multilayer devices”, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019, 11, 49, 45155-45160. [COBISS.SI-ID 32849447]

2. Samra Hasanbašić, Ajda Taler-Verčič, Vida Puizdar, Veronika Stoka, Magda Tušek-Žnidarič, Andrej Vilfan, Selma Berbić, Eva Žerovnik, “Prolines affect the nucleation phase of amyloid fibrillation reaction; mutation al analysis of human stefin B”, ACS chemical neuroscience, 2019, 10, 6, 2730-2740. [COBISS.SI-ID 32274727]

3. Stane Pajk, Maja Garvas, Janez Štrancar, “Fluorescent membrane probes based on a coumarin-thiazole scaffold”, Acta chimica slovenica, 2019, 66, 3, 668-674. [COBISS.SI-ID 4745585]

4. Ema Valentina Brovč, Stane Pajk, Roman Šink, Janez Mravljak, “Comparison of the NMR and the acid value determination methods for quality control of input polysorbates”, Acta chimica slovenica, 2019, 66, 4, 934-943. [COBISS.SI-ID 4819313]

5. Nikola Novak, Peter Keil, Till Frömling, Florian H. Schader, Alexander Martin, Kyle Grant Webber, Jürgen Rödel, “Influence of metal/semiconductor interface on attainable piezoelectric and energy harvesting properties of ZnO”, Acta materialia, 2019, 162, 277-283. [COBISS.SI-ID 32899879]

6. Andraž Bradeško, Lovro Fulanović, Marko Vrabelj, Mojca Otoničar, Hana Uršič Nemevšek, Alexandra Henriques, Ching-Chang Chung, Jacob L. Jones, Barbara Malič, Zdravko Kutnjak, Tadej Rojac, “Electrocaloric fatigue oflead magnesium niobate mediated by an electric-field-induced phase transformation”, Acta materialia, 2019, 169, 275-283.… Read the rest “Articles – 2019”

1. Jun-ichi Fukuda, Slobodan Žumer, “Theoretical study on optical properties of liquid crystalline Skyrmion lattice”, V: Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIV, SPIE Photonics West, 2-7 February 2019, San Francisco, California, United States, (Proceedings of SPIE, 10941), SPIE, 2019, 1094108. [COBISS.SI-ID 3308644]

1. Martin Gjoreski, Anton Gradišek, Borut Budna, Matjaž Gams, Gregor Poglajen, “Toward early detection and monitoring of chronic heart failure using heart sounds”, V: Intelligent environments 2019: the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE19), Rabat, Morocco, 24-27 June 2019, Workshop proceedings, (Ambient intelligence and smart environments, 26), IOS Press, 2019, 336-343. [COBISS.SI-ID 32509479]

2. Tanja Batkovič, Andreja Abina, Bojan Cestnik, Aleksander Zidanšek, “Competencies for sustainability and circular economy”, V: SDEWES 2019, 14th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, October 1-6 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Proceedings, SDEWES.ORG, 2019, 1025. [COBISS.SI-ID 32795687]

3. Primož Jozič, Aleksander Zidanšek, Robert Repnik, “Energy optimisation for reusable heavy-lift launch vehicles”, V: SDEWES 2019, 14th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, October 1-6 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Proceedings, SDEWES.ORG, 2019, 0578. [COBISS.SI-ID 32795175]

4. Bojan Cestnik, Tanja Batkovič, Adem Kikaj, Ivan Boškov, Matevž Ogrinc, Maj Smerkol, Aljaž Ostrež, Matej Janežič, Nita Hasani, Boštjan Kaluža, Aleksander Zidanšek, Andreja Abina, “Expert system for decision support in selection of education”, V: SDEWES 2019, 14th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, October 1-6 2019, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Proceed ings, SDEWES.ORG, 2019, 1052.… Read the rest “Published conference contributions”