Research interests
• Bacterial glycobiology
• Modulation of bacterial biofilm structure

Research experience and education
2019 – : Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2015 – 2018: Research Associate, Laboratory for Biotechnology, Centre of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011: Visiting scholar, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University. Iowa, USA
2010 – 2015: Researcher, Laboratory for Bioanalytics, Centre of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 – 2015: PhD in Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008: Internship, Molecular bacteriology laboratory, ILVO. Melle, Belgium
2007 – 2008: Student exchange, Food technology, Ghent University. Gent, Belgium
2004 – 2009: BsC in Food Science and Tehnology, Biotechnical Faculty. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Awards and fellowships
• 2023: Short scientific mission within the COST action Ocean4Biotech (Rome, Italy, 2023)
• 2023: Structural glycoscience summer school 2023 (Grenoble, France, 2023)
• 2023: Label free techniques for characterisation of protein interactions (Prague, Czech Republic, 2023)
• 2018: Best poster award at international conference »Targeting Phage and Antimicrobial Resistance 2018« (Florence, Italy, 2018)