Awards

Raziskovalka odseka, doc. dr. Kristina Žagar Soderžnik, je prejemnica naziva Kongresna ambasadorka Slovenije za leto 2026. Naziv je prejela za uspešno organizacijo in izvedbo mednarodnega kongresa z naslovom, 17th Multinational Congress on Microscopy (17MCM), ki je potekal septembra 2025 v Kongresnem centru St. Bernardin. Kongresa se je udeležilo preko 450 udeležencev od tega 350 iz […]

Tjaša Okleščen, a young researcher at the Department of Nanostructured Materials (K7) and a PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, received second prize for her oral presentation at the 31st International Conference on Materials and Technology (ICM&T). The award was presented as part of the conference’s traditional young researchers’ competition, in […]

Researchers Xuan Xu, Sašo Šturm and Kristina Žužek (Rožman) from the Jožef Stefan Institute, Department for Nanostructured Materials, received the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Inventor Award, presented on 9 October in Ljubljana during the 19th International Technology Transfer Conference. The award recognizes their innovative patented technologies for recycling Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets, enabling the recovery […]

As part of the ARIS J4-70159 project, our department organized a symposium titled “From Molecular Interactions to Innovative Biomedical Therapies” on October 7, 2026, under the leadership of Asst. Prof. Nina Kostevšek. The event featured outstanding speakers from the fields of cell biology, molecular interactions, molecular simulations, and the synthesis of drug delivery systems. Diverse […]

Our latest article from the Nanomedicine group has been published in the Journal of Proteome Research in the scope of ARIS J4-50150 project! 🩸 In this study, we investigated whether erythrocyte membrane vesicles (EMVs) – promising biomimetic nanocarriers for drug delivery – can be produced from frozen blood while preserving their key physicochemical, structural, and […]

Sana Saeed from the Department for Nanostructured Materials at the Jožef Stefan Institute received the Best Poster Award at the CAMD Summer School 2026 – Electronic Structure Theory and Materials Design, held from 16 to 21 August 2026. Her poster, “Ab-initio and STM Investigation of the Nd₂Fe₁₄B Surface,” presented a combined experimental and computational study […]

The young Ceramists Additive Manufacturing Forum (yCAM) 2026 took place at Jožef Stefan Institute, from 11th to 13th of May 2026. During yCAM, 3DCERAM Award for Best Speaker was won by Dr. Ipeknaz Özden Moser from Department for Nanostructured Materials (K7), for her talk on “Ceramic additive manufacturing by micron sized droplet jetting of thermoplastic feedstocks”. 3DCERAM […]

The AddMag project was selected as one of the M-ERA.Net success stories, highlighting its scientific excellence and strong industrial impact in the field of advanced magnetic materials. Funded under the M-ERA.Net programme, the project demonstrated that additive manufacturing can be used to produce permanent magnets with outstanding magnetic performance, high dimensional accuracy, and improved sustainability […]

Nik Gračanin je prejemnik fakultetne Prešernove nagrade za leto 2025 za magistrsko delo z naslovom »Mineraloška, kristalografska in geokemična analiza wulfenitnih zrn iz rudnika Mežica«. Magistrsko delo je nastalo pod mentorstvom izr. prof. dr. Nastje Rogan Šmuc z Naravoslovnotehniške fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani ter somentorstvom prof. dr. Saša Šturma, vodje odseka K7 na Institutu Jožef […]

The Department for Nanostructured Materials, K7, at the Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) has successfully secured funding under the RSF IND Programme (Pillar IV – Innovation) for the project iRAPTOR: Omni-Directional Magnetic Field-Controlled 3D Printing Device. The one-year project, led by Dr. Muhammad Shahid Arshad, is supported with funding of €50,000 and focuses on advancing functional […]

Our latest article from the Nanomedicine group has been published in Biomaterials Advances! Five research groups joined forces to develop a novel hybrid drug delivery system for nucleic acid therapeutics. By combining genipin-spermine-glycine nanoparticles with biomimetic erythrocyte membrane vesicles, we achieved an efficient and biocompatible carrier for siRNA delivery. Our system demonstrated: Excellent siRNA binding […]

Dijakinji srednje šole Slovenska Bistrica, Lara Marzidovšek in Katarina Šela, sta na Odseku za nanostrukturne materiale opravljali raziskovalno nalogo pod mentorstvom doc. dr. Kristine Žagar Soderžnik in somentorstvom Neže Sodnik. Njuna mentorica v srednji šoli je bila mag. Damijana Gregorič. Za raziskovalno nalogo na področju kemija ali kemijska tehnologija z naslovom Elektrokemijska določitev bisfenola S […]

Urban Komelj, dijak Gimnazije Vič, je na Odseku za nanostrukturne materiale raziskoval »Membranske vezikle z enkapsulirano siRNK za gensko terapijo in fototermično terapijo raka« pod mentorstvom doc. dr. Nine Kostevšek, za kar je 26. septembra 2025 prejel Krkino priznanje za srednješolske raziskovalne naloge. Somentorica na Gimanziji Vič je bila prof. Helena Potočnik Vičar.

Lara Einfalt je na mednarodni konferenci High-entropy alloy nanostructures: from theory to application Faraday Discussion, ki je potekala med 24. in 26. septembrom 2025 v Londonu, Združenem kraljestvu, prejela nagrado za najboljši plakat. Na plakatu z naslovom »Anodized TaNbHfZrTi High-Entropy Alloy as a Catalyst for the Antibiotic Tetracycline Removal« je predstavila raziskavo o uporabi visokoentropijskih […]

In partnership with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ljubljana, we were awarded the third Rector’s Award for the patent as a final result of the EIT Manufacturing project aProMag. The main objective of the project was to prototype, validate and bring to market a technology for rapid prototyping of rotors for brushless DC motors […]

Sana Shaukat was honored with the Best Poster Award for her research presentation at the conference held at Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier. Her poster, titled “Spark Plasma Sintering Technique for Optimizing Magnetic Properties of Bulk Nanocrystalline Nd-Fe-B Magnet,” highlighted innovative advancements in enhancing the performance of Nd-Fe-B magnets, crucial for renewable energy systems and […]

In October 2024, the Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit and Exhibition (SIPS 2024) was held in Crete, Greece, featuring plenary lectures by Nobel Laureates and multidisciplinary scientific symposia. Researchers from the Department of Nanostructured Materials presented invited lectures at the SISAM (Science of Intelligent & Sustainable Advanced Ferromagnetic and Superconducting Magnets) Symposium, dedicated to Prof. Dr. […]

Fusion Materials Research Group from Jožef Stefan Institute Wins First Prize at SOFT Innovation Prize 2024 From September 22 to 27, the 33rd Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) took place in Dublin, Ireland, during which the SOFT Innovation Prizes for 2024 were awarded. For the first time in history, Slovenian researchers received this prestigious award. […]

Neža Sodnik received the Award for best poster presentation, titled Electrochemical Detection of Benzisothiazolinone on Screen-Printed Electrodes, at the 9th Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry—South-East Europe. The symposium took place in Novi Sad, Serbia, from June 3rd to 7th, 2024.