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Academic career
| 2014- | Professor, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
| 2012-2014 | Professor, Ilmenau University of Technology |
| 2007-2012 | Group leader at University of Konstanz, funded by Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from Alexander von Humboldt foundation. |
| 2005 | Habilitation as Ass. Prof., Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia. |
| 2001-2003 | Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA. |
| 2000-2012 | Staff Member at Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1995-2000 | Ph. D. student at Solid State Physics Department, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1990-1995 | Studies of physics at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Prizes and Honors
| 2008 | Elected Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, Uni. Konstanz |
| 2006 | The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| 2003 | The Jozef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize Award |
| 2000 | Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Fellowship |
Professional Activites
| 2018 | Co-organizer of Focus session Structural Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials Probed by Ultrashort Electron Pulses, at the DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin 11.-16.3. 2018. |
| 2015 | Co-organizer of Focus session Structural Dynamics in nanoscale materials probed by ultrashort electron pulses, at the DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin 15.-20.3. 2015. |
| 2014 | Co-organizer of the Photoinduced Phase transitions and Cooperative Phenomena (PIPT-5), Bled 8-13 June, 2014 |
| 2010 | Co-organizer of the Collaborative Workshop: Charge Density Waves: Small Scales and Ultrashort Time, Oct. 28-31, Vukovar, Croatia |
| 2006 | Co-organizer of the Gordon Research Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems, February 5-10, 2006, Santa Ynez Valley Marriott, Buellton, CA. |
| 2004 | Co-editor: "Molecular nanowires and other quantum objects", published by Kluwer, 2004. |
| 2003 | Co-organizer of the NATO ARW "Molecular nanowires and other quantum objects", Bled, Slovenia, Sep. 7-10, 2003. |
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Journals: Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Science, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, International Journal of Mod. Physics B, Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, J. Electr. Spectroscopy, New J. of Physics
Funding Agencies: DFG, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, SNF, Gordon Research Conferences, NSF, DOE-BES, FOM, NRF South Africa