Aleksandra Lobnik

Aleksandra Lobnik received her PhD in 1998 at the Institute of Organic Analytical Chemistry of Graz University, Austria. Since 2009, she has been employed as a full professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor. In 2006, she co-founded a spin-off company, IOS Ltd, where she is the CEO. In 2021, she became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering; she was also the President of the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS). As a project manager, she participated in more than 50 national and international research projects. Aleksandra Lobnik is also active in the promotion of science. She is regularly invited to various conferences, workshop committees, and gives a wide range of interviews on the topic of recycling technologies for plastic/textile wastes, sensors, nano-sciences, knowledge transfer in widely accessible media, and round tables.