Job Title

Researcher - Senior Scientific Associate

Education 

2012: Doktor znanosti s področja Geologije, University of Ljubljana (NTF), Dissertation title: Application of SEM/EDS in environmental mineralogy and geochemistry

2007: Diplomirani inženir geologije, University of Ljubljana (NTF), Thesis title: Geology of Krim Mountain and its surroundings

Research fields

Scanning electron microscopy, microanalysis, differential individual particle analysis, environmental geochemistry, environmental mineralogy, environmental forensics, airborne particles, meteoritics

Selected projects

• EvaloPhate-sourceID - Evaluation of physico-chemical micro-properties and changes of solid PSE carriers in urban-industrial environments for the identification of pollution sources (https://www.geo-zs.si/en/projekt/evalophate-sourceid-vrednotenje-fizikalno-kemijskih-mikrolastnosti-in-sprememb-trdnih-nosilcev-pse-v-urbano-industrijskih-okoljih-za-identifikacijo-virov-onesnazenja/) (project leader)

• Dynamics and Material Flow of Potentially Toxic Elements (PTE) in the Urban Environment (https://www.geo-zs.si/en/projekt/dinamika-in-snovni-tok-potencialno-strupenih-elementov-pse-v-urbanem-okolju/) (project leader)

Other

• Mentor to young researcher: dr. Saša Kos (https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/researcher/32221)

• Marko Vincenc Lipold Plaque for top scientific research achievements in geology in the last two years, awarded at GeoZS (2019) (https://www.geo-zs.si/index.php/geozs-si/lipoldova-priznanja)

• Process training course in precision preparation of materials. Logitech Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland (2016)

• Excellent in Science 2013 (Assessment of metal pollution sources by SEM/EDS analysis of solid particles in snow in Žerjav area) (http://videolectures.net/odlicnivznanosti2013_miler_ocena_virov/)

• Voices of worlds: Meteorite falls (https://www.rtvslo.si/4d/arhiv/96940688?s=radio)