Members
Prof. Robert Jeraj, Ph.D.
Principal investigator
Professor of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Professor of Physics, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin
Research Interests: medical physics, molecular imaging, oncology
Ana Marin, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: biomedical optics
Asst. Prof. Andrej Studen, Ph.D.
Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana
Research interests: PET, DORA
Barbara Šegedin, M.D., Ph.D.
Oncology with radiotherapy specialist, Institute of Oncology
Research Interests: brachytherapy, radiotherapy
Barbara Vidergar-Kralj, M.D.
Internal medicine specialists, Institute of Oncology
Research Interests: diagnostics and therapy of thyroid cancer
Božidar Casar, Ph.D.
Medical Physics Expert, Institute of Oncology
Research interests: oncology
izr. prof. dr. Dimitrij Kuhelj,dr.med
Institute of Radiology
Research interests: radiology
Eva Rebec, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: differential diagnosis of Parkinsonism
Gašper Razdevšek, M.Sc.
Young researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research interests: time-of-flight PET, image reconstruction algorithms in PET
Jošt Stergar, Ph.D.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: biomedical optics
Katja Strašek, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: assessing early response to immunotherapy, optimising treatment planning
Asst. Prof. Katja Zaletel, M.D., Ph.D.
Head of Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Department for Thyroid Diseases
Research interest: tyrology, diagnostics and treatment with exposed radiation sources
Luciano Rivetti, M. Sc.
Early Stage Researcher (ESR) at the RAPTOR project, PhD candidate at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research interests: Adaptive Radiation Therapy
Luka Jensterle, M.Sc.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Student of Medical physics
Asst. Luka Ležaić, M.D., Ph.D.
Head, Department of Nuclear Medical Imaging, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Ljubljana
Research interests: molecular imaging in the field of oncology, inflammatory / infectious processes, cardiology / vascular medicine; open source radiation therapy
Luka Rogelj, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Development of image processing/analysis algorithms
Assoc. Prof. Maja Trošt, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurology specialist, Division of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Research Interests: metabolic brain patterns of neurodegenerative brain diseases and continuous treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders (deep brain stimulation and parenteral treatments for Parkinson’s disease)
Martina Vrankar, M.D., Ph.D.
Radiotherapy and oncology specialist, Institute of Oncology
Research Interests: treatment of lung cancer
Maruša Turk, M.Sc
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: modeling drug resistance in metastatic prostate cancer, QTBI of bone metastases
Matej Perovnik, M.D.
Young researcher, Division of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Research interests: metabolic brain network analysis, diagnosis of dementias
Asst. Mateja Logar, M.D, Ph.D
head of the covid-19 advisory group
Research interests: infectology
Matic Orehar, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Positron emission tomography, detector simulations
Asst. Prof. Matija Milanič, Ph.D.
Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Department of Complex Matter
Research Interests: biomedical optics
Matjaž Lukač, Ph.D.
Fotona, d.o.o. (Chairman of the Board), Jožef Stefan Institute (Research Fellow)
Research Interests: physics of laser sources, medical physics
Petra Kolenc, Ph.D.
Radiopharmacy specialist, Department of nuclear medicine (KNM), Univeristy Medical Center Ljubljana, Research coordinator at KNM
Research Interests: Radiopharmaceuticals development, pre-clinical and clinical studies, translation
Petra Tomše, Ph.D.
Medical physicist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Resarch Interests: metabolic brain patterns of Parkinson disease
Asst. Prof. Primož Peterlin, Ph.D.
Research Interests: physics of radiotherapy
Rok Dolenec, Ph.D.
Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana
Research Interest: Experimental physics, photon detectors
Sergei Diuzhenko, M.Sc.
Cosylab d.d., Early stage researcher at the ITN RAPTOR, PhD Student at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interest: Hadron therapy, Radiobiology, Monte Carlo simulations and TPS
Assoc. Prof. Simona Gaberšček, M.D., Ph.D.
Internal and nuclear medicine specialist, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Asst. Prof. Urban Simončič, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Research group at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Research and education work group
Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Department of Nuclear Physics
Research Interests: kinetic analysis of PET and DCE MRI images
Tadej Tomanič, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research interest: Biomedical optics, analysis of medical images
Žan Klaneček, M.Sc.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: DORA
Živa Drakulić Gorše M.D.
Young researcher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Parkinson’s disease, deep brain stimulation, neuroimaging, linguistics
Students
Aleks Prša
Student of medical physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Breast tomosynthesis
Matjaž Šubic
Student of medical physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Contour propagation for adaptive particle therapy
Sonja Markovič
Student of medical physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Research Interests: Contour uncertainty driven differences in dose reporting parameters
International collaborators
Ali Deatsch, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical Physics
Research interests: Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis, adverse neurological effects of chemotherapy, and healthy aging trajectories
Brayden Schott, M.Sc.
PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical Physics
Research interests: Automated therapeutic response assessment and prediction in metastatic malignancies
Daniel Huff, M. Sc..
PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical Physics
Research interests: immunotherapy response, toxicity monitoring, image segmentation
Mauro Namías, PhD
Head of medical physics at Nuclear Diagnostic Center Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research interests: quantitative harmonization in nuclear medicine imaging (PET/SPECT), image denoising, image reconstruction, correlation of brain metabolism and therapy outcomes
Victor Santoro-Fernandes, M. Sc.
PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical Physics
Research interests: Algorithm development to allow for lesion-level treatment response assessment and selective intervention in metastatic cancer patients
Former members
Damijan Valentinuzzi, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Logistics and social activities work group
Raziskovalec na Inštitutu Jožef Stefan, F8 – odsek za reaktorsko fiziko
Researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Nuclear Physics
Research Interests: modelling tumour response to immunotherapy, radiomics analyses, clinical studies in oncology
Doroteja Novak, Ph.D
Young researcher at Department of nuclear medicine, University Medical Center Ljubljana
Research interests: radiopharmaceuticals development
Nina Verdel, Ph.D.
Young researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute
Research Interests: biomedical optics
Peter Ferjancic, Ph.D.
PhD student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical Physics
Research interests: probabilistic approach to uncertainties in radiotherapy
Associate Members
Assoc. Prof. Boris Majaron, Ph.D.
Researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Department of Complex Matter
Research Interests: laser methods in medicine
Asst. Prof. Damijan Škrk, Ph.D.
Member of Research group
Asst. Prof., Faculty of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana
Slovenian Radiation Protection Administration – director
Assoc. Prof. Igor Serša, Ph.D.
Researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Department of Condensed Matter
Leader of Laboratory for MRI researchers
Res. Asst. Matija Kuclar, M.Sc.
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychopathology, University Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Research interests: application of transcranial magnetic stimulation in mental disorders, analysis and classification of electroencephalographic data according to psychopathological symptoms
Prof. Peter Križan, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Medical physics study programme on Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Researcher at “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Department of Experimental Particle Physics, leader of Bell II experiment, Tsukuba, Japan (2009-2013), technical coordinator (since 2015)
Research Interests: experimental particle physics, development of detection methods
Prof. Primož Strojan, M.D., Ph.D.
Coordinator of Research group at Institute of Oncology
Radiotherapy and oncology specialist, Institute of Oncology, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Research Interests: head and neck oncology
Asst. Tadej Kanduč, Ph.D.
Assistant, Faculty of mathematics and physics
Research Interests: Numerical analysis, splines, isogeometric analysis, FEM, BEM, parallel computing
Taja Ložar
Medical student, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Research Interests: oncology, tumour biology, epidemiology and cancer prevention
Tomaž Rus, M.D.
Neurology Resident, Division of Neurology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana; PhD student of neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana
Research Interests: metabolic brain network analysis, advanced analysis of metabolic images, neurodegenerative research
Pablo, Ph.D.
Software and hardware work group
Graphic node
Research Interests: advanced computations in medical physics and parallel computing
Merlin, Ph.D.
Software and hardware work group
LabKey specialist
Research Interests: advanced computations in medical physics and parallel computing