Prof. Dr. Tadej Rojac
Scientific Councellor
email: tadej.rojac@ijs.si
p: +386 1 477 3834
EDUCATION
2007: PhD in Materials, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003: BSc in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2016-: Senior Research Fellow, Electronic Ceramics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011-2016: Research Fellow, Electronic Ceramics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008-2011: Researcher with Ph.D., Electronic Ceramics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008-2009: Post-doc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2017-: Leader of courses on “Ceramics” for undergraduate students, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014-: Assistant Professor, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia (leader of course »Ceramic materials and technologies for sensors of physical quantities«)
AWARDS
2021: Excellent in Science 2021, Slovenian Research Agency (coauthor of the achievement “Disclosing the influence of polar disorder on the response dynamics of ferroelectric materials”)
2020: Excellent in Science 2020, Slovenian Research Agency (coauthor of the achievement “Innovative approaches to controlled functional responses of multiferroics”)
2018: Zois Award for significant achievements in the research of the synthesis and characterization of high-temperature piezoelectric ceramics based on bismuth ferrite
2018: Young Investigator Award from the IEEE UFFC Society for the pioneering work on processing of chemically complex ferroelectric ceramics
2017: Excellent in Science 2017, field Technology, Slovenian Research Agency (coauthor of the achievement “Interpretation of electrical conductivity of domain walls in bismuth ferrite”)
2004: Award for the best presentation among young scientists in 2004, 12th Conference on Materials and Technology, Portorož, Slovenia
2004: Award for the best presentation among young scientists, VIII International Conference on Sintering and II International Conference on Fundamental Bases of Mechanochemical Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia
2003: Prešern’s award for the diploma thesis, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana