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