Education
- Ph.D. (Physics), University of Ljubljana, 2007
- Masters exam (Physics), University of Ljubljana, 2005 (cum laude)
- B.Sc. (Physics), University of Ljubljana, 2003 (cum laude)
- International Baccalaureate (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Psychology), 1999, (score 43/45)
Awards & Grants
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-US/22-24-041 (2022-2024)
- ARRS research grant J1-3013 (2021-2024)
- APS Outstanding Referee, 2021
- Robert Blinc award for outstanding early career physicist, 2020
- ARRS research program P1-0035 (2019-2024)
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-US/18-20-038 (2018-2020)
- ARRS research grant J1-8137 (2017-2020)
- Distinguished referee of the Nuclear Physics B journal, 2017
- National "Ziga Zois" recognition of important scientific achievements, 2016
- Distinguished referee of the Physics Letters B journal, 2016
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-FR/16-17-PROTEUS-001 (2016-2017)
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-US/16-17-004 (2016-2017)
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-AR/15-17-001 (2015-2017)
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-US/14-15-010 (2014-2015)
- Distinguished referee of the European Physical Journal, 2013
- "Svecana listina" award of University of Ljubljana for exceptional scientific and educational achievements, 2013
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-FR/12-13-PROTEUS-003 (2012-2013)
- ARRS research grant Z1-4013 (2011-2013)
- ARRS bilateral grant BI-US/11-12-018 (2011-2012)
- Oreste Piccioni diploma at the International Fermi School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice, Italy, 2004
- University Prešeren prize awarded for diploma thesis, 2003
- University ceremonial list for exceptional undergraduate studies achievement, 2003
- Zois Scholarship (1995-2003)
Academic and scientific-research titles
- Full professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2022 - )
- Science counsellor, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2019 - )
- Visiting scientist, CERN (2016 - )
- Associate professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2017 - 2021 )
- Senior research associate, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2014 - 2019)
- Associate scientist, CERN (2015 - 2016)
- Assistant professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2012 - 2016)
- Research associate, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2010 - 2014)
- Assistant researcher with Ph.D., Jožef Stefan Institute, (2007 - 2010)
- Teaching assistant in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2004 - 2012)
- Assistant researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2003 - 2007)
Employment
- Full professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2022 - )
- Head of Department for Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2019 - )
- Associate professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2017 - 2021)
- Staff researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2010 - 2018)
- Assistant professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2014 - 2016)
- Teaching assistant in physics, University of Ljubljana, (2009 - 2014)
- Assistant researcher with Ph.D., Jožef Stefan Institute, (2007 - 2010)
- Postdoctorial researcher (Experienced Researcher in the European Commission RTN network, Contract No. MRTN-CT-2006-035482 (FLAVIAnet) ), INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, (2007 - 2009)
- Young researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute, (2003 - 2007)
Work in professional committees at home and abroad
- Referee for international scientific journals Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, Journal of High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics B, Physical Review D, European Journal of Physics C, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Annalen der Physik, Journal of Physics G, Chinese Physics C.
- Co-convener of the Flavour session at the SM@LHC conference, (Rome, 2024)
- Co-convener of the FCC Physics WG “Flavour Physics” (2021 - )
- Member of Committee for PhD studies at University of Ljubljana (2021 - )
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "Physics of the flavourful Universe", (Portoroz 2021)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the Beauty conference, (Ljubljana 2019)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the Summer school on BSM particle physics and cosmology, (Ljubljana 2019)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "Precision era in High Energy Physics", (Portoroz 2019)
- Co-convener of the FCC/TLEP-WG6 “Flavour Physics and Rare Decays” (2014 - 2018)
- Coordinator of the "Belle II-Theory Interface Platform" WG "Belle II and New Physics" (2014 - 2018)
- Chair of the local organizing committee of the Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, (Krvavec 2017)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "New physics at the junction of flavor and collider phenomenology", (Portoroz 2017)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the XXVII INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LEPTON PHOTON INTERACTIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES (Ljubljana, 2015)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "Particle Phenomenology From the Early Universe to High Energy Colliders", (Portoroz 2015)
- Co-convener of the WG VII: Charm mixing and CPV at the CKM2014 conference (Vienna, 2014)
- Co-convener of the Exotica WG at the LHCb Implications Workshop (CERN, 2013)
- Co-convener of the Flavor parallel session at the SUSY2013 conference (Trieste, 2013)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "Probing the Standard Model and New Physics at Low and High Energies", (Portoroz 2013)
- Co-convener of the WG VI: Top production and decays at the CKM2012 conference (Cincinnati, 2012)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international physics workshop on "The Role of Heavy Fermions in Fundamental Physics", (Portoroz 2011)
- Member of the local organizing committee of the international LNF Spring School "Bruno Touschek" in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, (Frascati 2009, 2010)
Mentorship
- Advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Arman Korajac, 2024), University of Ljubljana
- Advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Darius Faroughy, 2019), University of Ljubljana
- Advisor of masters thesis (Blaz Bortolato, 2019), University of Ljubljana
- Advisor of masters thesis (Andraz Lipanje, 2017), University of Ljubljana
- Advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Ivana Mustac, 2014), University of Ljubljana
- Advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Admir Greljo, 2014), University of Ljubljana
- Co-advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Ivan Nisandzic, 2014), University of Ljubljana
- Co-advisor of Ph.D. thesis (Jure Drobnak, 2012), University of Ljubljana
- Co-advisor of diploma thesis (Tilen Kunsterle, 2008), University of Ljubljana
Selected Publications
Conferences & Schools
2024
- ZPW2024: Particle Physics from LHC to Future Colliders [Zurich] (Invited talk)
2023
- Workshop on Machine Learning and High-Energy Physics [Vienna]
- Heavy Flavour 2023 - Quo Vadis? [Islay]
2022
- The 2022 International Workshop on the High Energy Circular Electron Positron Collider [Beijing] (Invited talk)
- Quirks in Quark Flavour Physics [Zadar] (Invited talk)
- FCC Week 2022 [Paris] (Invited talk)
- Bayesian Inference in High-Energy Physics [Durham] (Invited closing talk)
2021
- CKM 2021 [Zoom] (Invited plenary talk)
- FCC Physics Meeting [Zoom] (Invited lecture)
- Invisibles'21 Virtual School [Zoom] (Invited lectures)
2020
- Top 2020 [Durham] (Invited lecture)
- Israeli Joint Particle Physics Meeting [Zoom] (Invited lecture)
- CERN TH Institute: New Physics on the Low-Energy Precision Frontier [CERN] (Invited lecture)
- COST Workshop: Probing BSM physics at different scales [Berlin] (Invited lecture)
- ZPW2020 [Zurich] (Invited lecture)
2019
- Beauty 2019 [Ljubljana] (Invited lecture)
- HC2NP [Tenerife] (Invited lecture)
- Moriond QCD [La Thuile] (Invited lecture)
- Lake Louise Winter Institute [Lake Louise] (Invited lecture)
- GGI Lectures on the theory of fundamental interactions [Florence] (Invited lectures)
2018
- Workshop on high-energy implications of flavor anomalies [CERN] (Invited introductory lecture)
- LHC Days in Split 2018 [Split] (Invited talk)
- PACTS 2018 [Talinn] (Invited talk)
- SCGP Workshop on Exotic Hadrons and Flavor Physics [Stony Brook] (Invited talk)
2017
- First Zagreb School of Theoretical Physics [Zagreb] (Invited lectures)
- Planck 2017 [Warsaw] (Invited plenary talk)
- Sarajevo School of High Energy Physics [Sarajevo] (Invited lectures)
- Higgs XS WG2 post-YR4 kickoff meeting [CERN] (Invited talk)
- Aspen 2017 Winter Conference "From the LHC to Dark Matter and Beyond" [Aspen] (Invited talk)
- The 3rd International Symposium on “Quest for the Origin of Particles and the Universe” [Nagoya] (Invited talk)
2016
- 12th Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory [Vienna] (Invited talk)
- LHC, FCC-ee, FCC-hh Interplay [CERN] (Invited talk)
- Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects [CERN] (Invited talk)
- Heavy Flavour physics at HL-LHC [CERN] (Invited talk)
- Quarkonium 2016 [Richland] (Invited talk)
- Bethe Forum 2016 [Bonn] (Invited talk)
- 6th IDPASC School [Vipava] (Invited lectures)
- LHC Ski 2016 [Obergurgl] (Invited plenary talk)
- Latin American Webinars on Physics [Online] (Invited talk)
2015
- LHC Results Forum [Online] (Invited talk)
- Flavour 2015 [Munich] (Invited talk)
- FPCP 2015 [Nagoya] (Invited plenary talk)
- SM@LHC [Florence] (Invited talk)
- Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University [Cambridge] (Invited lectures)
- CHIPP PhD Winter School 2015 [Grindelwald] (Invited lectures)
2014
- Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects [CERN] (Invited talk)
- 2nd NPKI Workshop [Jeju] (Invited talk)
- CKM 2014 [Vienna] (Invited talk)
- Xth Recontres du Vietnam (Flavour) [Quy Nhon] (Invited talk)
- BEACH 2014 [Birmingham] (Invited introductory lecture)
- Beauty 2014 [Edinburgh] (Invited talk)
- 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics [Garderen] (Invited lectures)
- Astroparticle Physics [Amsterdam] (Invited talk)
- Higgs Flavor Workshop [Weizmann institute] (Invited talk)
- LHCP 2014 [New York] (Invited talk)
- FPCP 2014 [Marseille] (Invited plenary talk)
- "BSM physics opportunities at 100 TeV" Workshop [CERN] (Invited talk)
- "The top-charm frontier at the LHC" Workshop [CERN] (Invited talk)
2013
- "Towards the Construction of the Fundamental Theory of Flavour" Workshop [Munich] (Invited talk)
- Charm 2013 [Manchester] (Invited plenary summary talk)
- EPS HEP 2013 [Stockholm] (Invited plenary talk)
- Invisibles13 Workshop [Durham] (Invited talk)
- Lepton Photon [San Francisco] (Invited plenary talk)
- 25th Recontres de Blois [Blois] (Invited plenary talk)
- LHCP 2013 [Barcelona] (Invited talk)
2012
- HCP 2012 [Kyoto] (Invited plenary talk)
- CKM 2012 [Cincinnati] (Invited talk)
- Top 2012 [Winchester] (Invited talk)
- FLASY'12 [Dortmund] (Invited talk)
- Fourth Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Flavour Physics [Anacapri] (Invited talk)
- Planck 2012 [Warsaw] (Invited plenary talk)
- XL International Meeting on Fundamental Physics [Benasque] (Invited talk)
- XX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects [Bonn] (Invited talk)
- Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste [La Thuile] (Invited talk)
- CP violation of charm hadrons [CERN, Geneve] (Invited talk)
2011
- Beyond the Standard Model: Results with the 7 TeV LHC Collision Data [ICTP, Trieste] (Invited talk)
- Planck 2011 [Lisbon] (Selected talk)
- tmini workshop [Weizmann Institute] (Invited talk)
- FPCP 2011 [Maale Hachamisha] (Invited talk)
- Moriond EW 2011 [La Thuile] (Invited talk)
2010
- Charm 2010 [Beijing] (Invited talk)
- VII Meeting on B Physics [LAL, Univ. Paris Sud] (Invited talk)
- CKM 2010 [Univ. Warwick] (2 invited talks)
- 6th Open Meeting of the Belle II Collaboration [KEK, Tsokuba] (Invited talk)
- BEACH 2010 [Univ. Perugia] (Selected talk)
- Physics at the LHC [DESY, Hamburg] (Selected talk)
- Planck 2010 [CERN, Geneva] (Selected talk)
- FPCP 2010 [Univ. Torino] (Invited talk)
- Waiting for the LHC [IAS TU Munich] (Invited talk)
2009
- PEPS Theory- Experiment interplay focus week: semi-leptonic and radiative B decays [Univ. Paris Sud, Orsay] (Invited talk)
- Flavianet Topical Workshop [Kazimierz] (Invited talk)
- The 2009 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics [Univ. Krakow] (Selected talk)
- Charm 09 [Leimen] (Invited talk)
2008
- Euroflavour 2008 [IPPP, Durham] (Invited talk)
- Planck 08 [Barcelona] (Selected talk)
- B physics workshop [Capri] (Invited talk)
- Incontri di Fisica del B [Cagliari] (Invited talk)
- Moriond EW 08 [La Thuile] (Invited talk)
2007
- The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics [Univ. Manchester] (Selected talk)
Seminars given at institutes and universities
J. Stefan Institute, INFN & Univ. Torino, INFN & Univ. Bari, Univ. Karlsruhe, LPT & Univ. Paris Sud, IFAE & Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Weizmann Institute Israel, ICTP Trieste, Aspen Center for Physics USA, SISSA Trieste, CERN, Università degli Studi di Padova, King's College London, MPI Heidelberg, TU Munich, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, Zurich University, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, University Siegen, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, IFT Madrid, University of Cincinnati, University of Bern.