Research interests
• Surface display on lactic acid bacteria
• Therapeutical use of lactic acid bacteria
• Development of theranostic lactic acid bacteria
• Tumor cell lines targeting with theranostic lactic acid bacteria

Research experience and education
2025 -: Scientific associate, Department of Biotechnology, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2025 -: Assistant for Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2024 –2025: Postdoctoral fellow, Leslie dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2021 –2024: Postdoctoral research assistant, Department of Biotechnology, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021 –2024: Assistant for Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017 – 2021: Junior researcher, Department of Biotechnology, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia / PhD student, Interdisciplinary doctoral programme in Biomedicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2012 – 2017: MSc Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Awards and fellowships
• 2023: EMBO|EMBL Symposia fellowship, Heidelberg, Germany
• 2023: Bursary for FEMS, Hamburg, Germany
• 2022: Grand Krka Prize for doctoral dissertation
• 2020: FEBS Summer Fellowship
• 2019: EMBO travel grant for EMBO Workshop
• 2019: Bursary for the 19th YSF and 44th FEBS Congress in Krakow
• 2018: Slovenian biochemical society bursary for FEBS 3+ 2018, Siofok, Hungary

Past and current grants as PI
• ARIS J3-60060 Extracellular vesicles from recombinant Lactococcus lactis as novel protein delivery vectors for treatment of intestinal inflammation and prevention of colorectal cancer, 2025-2027; €300,000