March 2024
Prof. J. Paul Attfield from the University of Edinburgh, UK, visited our laboratory and delivered a keynote lecture at the 32. Jožef Stefan Days.
March 2024
Mirela gave a Joint webinar Division de Chimie du Solide – SCF / Division of Solid State and Materials Chemistry – EuChemS lecture.
March 2024
Prof. Boris Frlec and Prof. Andrej Šmalc visited our research group and shared with us the experiences and memories from the pioneering times of fluorine chemistry at JSI.
March 2024
Mirela gave an invited lecture at Deutsche Kristallzüchtungstagung 2024 in Erlangen, Germany.
March 2024
Matic B. is attending the HERCULES School: Neutrons & Synchrotron Radiation for Science in Grenoble, France, where he was awarded a Poster Presentation Award.
January 2024
Mirela gave an invited seminar lecture at IFW Dresden. Besides IFW, Mirela and Matic L. also visited MPI CPfS in Dresden, Germany.
January 2024
Mirela was featured in the national newspaper DELO.
January 2024
Mirela and her MSCA-IF project were featured in Widening Countries Inspirational Stories on MSCA-NET website.
December 2023
Dr. Krešimir Molčanov and Petra Stanić from the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, visited our laboratory.
December 2023
Olha, Erik and Matic L. visited the research group of Prof. Dominik Kurzydłowski at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland.
November 2023
Miha visited the research group of Dr. Krešimir Molčanov at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.
November 2023
Kristian, Mirela, and Matic attended Festival della Scienza in Genoa, Italy, with Chemistry Show demonstrating attractive chemistry experiments.
October 2023
Matic L. had a plenary lecture at the 8th Symposium of Chemistry Students, SiSK 8, in Zagreb, Croatia.
October 2023
Matic L. attended the Young Leaders Alumni Meeting at the STS forum in Kyoto, Japan, and visited the Energy Chemistry Laboratory, at the Department of Fundamental Energy Science, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, where he also gave a lecture.
September 2023
Mirela became a Secretary of the Division of Solid State and Materials Chemistry of the European Chemical Society, EuChemS.
September 2023
We attended the SCS Annual Meeting 2023, in Portorož, Slovenia. Olha won the 3rd Place Prize for her poster presentation.
August 2023
Kristian attended the Fluorine Summer School in Berlin, Germany.
August 2023
Mirela and Matic L. attended the 26th Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr in Melbourne, Australia.
July 2023
Erik and Valentina attended the High Pressure Summer School – SUSSP 78 in Edinburgh, UK. Erik also attended The Joint 28th AIRAPT and 60th EHPRG International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology.
July 2023
Klemen attended the Electron crystallography – A deep dive into nanocrystals, AIC2023 International School, in Pisa, Italy.
June 2023
We attended the Solid-State Science & Research meeting, SCIRES 2023, in Zagreb, Croatia. Erik won the Poster Presentation Award.
June 2023
We attended the 29th Slovenian-Croatian Crystallographic Meeting, SCCM29, in Topolšica, Slovenia. Erik and Klemen won the Best Presentation Award and the CCDC Award for best short oral presentation, respectively.
June 2023
Valentina was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship!
March 2023
Erik, Miha (as students) and Matic L. (as a tutor) attended the 19th BCA/CCG Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis in Durham, UK.
March 2023
Miha was awarded a travel grant from ARRS for bilateral cooperation with Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
February 2023
Valentina Milašinović has joined our laboratory as a new research associate.
January 2023
Kristian and Matic L. visited the Rigaku Europe HQ in Neu Isenburg and Dr. Hans-Georg Stammler at Universität Bielefeld, Germany.
December 2022
Kristian received a research equipment co-funding grant from the Slovenian Research Agency.
November 2022
Klemen and Matic L. visited the Palatinus Group, at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
November 2022
Olha Sanko has joined our laboratory as a new Ph.D. student.
October 2022
Erik and Nikola Jakupec from IRB in Zagreb were awarded a joint research grant by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
October 2022
Kristian, Mirela, and Matic attended Festival della Scienza in Genoa, Italy, showing attractive chemistry experiments Ricette e reazioni: La chimica in cucina.
October 2022
Miha is on a 1-month research visit in the research group of Prof. Balazs Pinter, at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
October 2022
Matic L. attended the Rigaku European Single-Crystal Users’ Meeting, in Neu Isenburg, Germany.
October 2022
Mirela attended the STS forum and the Young Leaders Program, in Kyoto, Japan.
September 2022
Matic B., Mirela, Erik, Klemen, Miha, Kristian, and Matic L. attended the SCS Annual Meeting 2022, in Portorož, Slovenia. Erik won the 3rd Place Prize at the Student Paper Contest.
September 2022
Matic B., Lia, Mirela, Erik, Klemen, Miha, Kristian, and Matic L. attended the 28th Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting, CSCM28, in Poreč, Croatia. Klemen won the Award for the Best Presentation by a Young Scientist.
August 2022
Mirela was acknowledged as an Outstanding Referee by Communications Materials.
August 2022
Matic L. attended the 2022 EuChemS General Assembly, in Lisbon, Portugal, as a vice-president of the Slovenian Chemical Society.
August 2022
Erik, Klemen, Miha, Kristian, and Matic L. attended the 20th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, ESFC 2022, in Berlin, Germany. Erik won the Best Poster Award sponsored by J. Fluorine Chem.
August 2022
Mirela is on a 1-month research visit in the research group of Prof. J. Paul Attfield, at the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, The University of Edinburgh.
August 2022
Matic L. visited the Parsons Group, at the School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh.
July 2022
Prof. Vladimir Stilinović from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, visited our laboratory.
July 2022
Erik attended the 2022 European Crystallographic School, ECS7, in Lisbon, Portugal.
July 2022
Erik, Miha, Kristian, and Matic L. attended the 4th International Congress of Chemists and Chemical Engineers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ICCCEB&H 2022, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Erik won the Best Oral Presentation Award.
June 2022
Prof. Marko Rodić from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, visited our laboratory.
June 2022
Klemen is attending the Zürich School of Crystallography in Switzerland.
June 2022
Mirela and Matic L. attended the 10th International Conference on Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying, INCOME2022, in Cagliari, Italy.
June 2022
Erik attended the International School of Crystallography in Erice, Italy.
June 2022
Klemen attended the 14th Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School Students’ Conference (IPSSC) in Kamnik, Slovenia and won the Best Abstract Award.
May 2022
Lia, Matic B., and Mirela attended the European Powder Diffraction Conference, EPDiC17, in Šibenik, Croatia.
April 2022
Dr. Luka Fotović from University of Zagreb has joined our laboratory for a 3-month research visit.
April 2022
Mirela has been appointed Assistant Professor of Materials at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.
March 2022
We were awarded travel grants from ARRS for bilateral cooperation with institutions in the USA: Mirela Johns Hopkins University, Miha The University of Texas at El Paso, Kristian and Matic University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
January 2022
Matic was invited to join the Early Career Advisory Board of ChemistryOpen journal.
January 2022
Miha Virant has joined our laboratory as a new postdoctoral research associate.
December 2021
Mirela and Matic received research equipment co-funding grants from the Slovenian Research Agency.
November 2021
Kristian, Mirela, and Matic attended Festival della Scienza in Genoa, Italy, showing attractive chemistry experiments La chimica è servita: Esperimenti in cucina.
September 2021
We attended the SCS Annual Meeting 2021, where we presented posters, lectures, chaired sessions, and participated in the Student award committee.
August 2021
Mirela coauthored a paper published in PNAS!
July 2021
Our joint Research Project with Prof. Dominik Kurzydłowski from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw was approved!
July 2021
Erik Uran has joined our laboratory as a new Ph.D. student.
July 2021
Juan Forero-Saboya from ICMAB-CSIC has joined our laboratory for a 3-month research visit.
June 2021
Our brand new ERC-funded single-crystal X-ray diffractometer Rigaku OD XtaLAB Synergy-S microfocus Ag/Cu with Dectris Eiger2 R CdTe 1M detector was installed.
April 2021
Matic is tutoring at the 18th Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis.
April 2021
Klemen Motaln has joined our laboratory as a new Ph.D. student.
March 2021
Matic wrote the article Krypton Chemistry (in Slovene) for the JSI News magazine.
February 2021
Mirela was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship!
December 2020
Mirela and Matic received research equipment co-funding grants from the Slovenian Research Agency.
December 2020
Our joint Research Project with Dr. Lukáš Palatinus from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences was approved!
December 2020
A fully-funded PhD studentship is available to work on a collaborative project held between The University of Edinburgh, Diamond Light Source, and ECCL@JSI on the effect of extreme pressure on compounds of the noble gases.
November 2020
Our work in collaboration with the group of Prof. Gary J. Schrobilgen on the first compounds with chemically bonded Kr and Xe was published in Angew. Chem.
October 2020
Kristian presented his research on xenon compounds at 13th International Technology Transfer Conference.
October 2020
Two Ph.D. students have joined the team. Lia and Matic are working under the supervision of Mirela on superconductivity and quantum magnetism.
September 2020
Matic was nominated and won the "Name of the Week" (Ime tedna) distinction from Val 202 Radio.
September 2020
We attended the SCS Annual Meeting 2020, where we presented lectures, chaired sessions, and participated in the Student award committee.
September 2020
Matic was awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth €2.37 million!
September 2020
Matic is attending the High Pressure Summer School 2020 – Introduction to Novel Methods of Atomic and Electronic Structure Studies at High Pressures.
August 2020
Mirela was awarded a Research Project grant from the Slovenian Research Agency.
June 2020
Matic has been appointed Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.
May 2020
We attended the 13th FROLIC GOATS High-Pressure Diffraction e-Workshop.
March 2020
Mirela’s H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 project proposal "Towards Quantum States of Matter via Chemistry under Ambient and Extreme Conditions – QMAT" received the Seal of Excellence.
February 2020
Matic gave the Habilitation Lecture "Chemistry at extreme conditions of high pressure in GPa range" at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School.
February 2020
We are delighted to host Prof. Simon Parsons, University of Edinburgh, who is giving the JSI Colloquia lecture ("High Pressure and the Molecular Solid State").
January 2020
Mirela is on a 2-week research visit at PARADIM, Johns Hopkins University.
November 2019
Mirela has been appointed Associate Editor of the Acta Chimica Slovenica journal! (starting Jan. 1, 2020)
November 2019
Blaž was offered a position in pharma industry he couldn’t refuse. He’ll be greatly missed at ECCL.
November 2019
At Festival della Scienza in Genoa, Italy, we had the show Esperimenti Chimici in Cucina with attractive chemistry experiments.
October 2019
Matic attended the STS forum 2019 in Kyoto, Japan, and participated in the Young Leaders Program.
October 2019
We’re awarded travel grants from ARRS for bilateral cooperation with institutions in the USA: Matic Colorado State University, Kristian Purdue University, Mirela Johns Hopkins University.
September 2019
Blaž, Kristian, and Matic gave lectures at the SCS Annual Meeting 2019 in Maribor, Slovenia.
September 2019
We wrote the article Chemistry under Extreme Conditions (in Slovene) for the JSI News magazine.
September 2019
Mirela gave a lecture at the 17th European Conference on Solid State Chemistry in Lille, France.
August 2019
Mirela’s paper on a rare anisotropic spin glass material is published in Chem. Mater.!
August 2019
Matic spent a month in The Parsons Group at the University of Edinburgh doing high-pressure research, thanks to RSC Researcher Mobility Grant!
July 2019
The paper in Org. Lett. was featured in Synfacts!
June 2019
Matic gave a plenary lecture at the 27th Slovenian-Croatian Crystallographic Meeting 2019 in Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia.
April 2019
Blaž, Kristian, and Matic attended the 12th FROLIC GOATS High-Pressure Diffraction Workshop in Poznań, Poland.