Damjana Drobne PhD

Prof. Dr. Damjana Drobne, head of the group for Nanobiology and Nanotoxicology at the University of Ljubljana and professor for (environmental) toxicology and for zoology with over twenty-five years of research experience. She is the founder and principal investigator of a research group for nanobiology and nanotoxicology. Together with national and international colleges, she has published more than 100 original scientific publications and many book chapters.

Her group was a partner in two large-scale 7. OP EU projects (NanoMile, NanoValid), and is a partner in two Horizon 2020 projects (NanoFase) and the MSCA-ITN-2015 project (Pandora). At a national level, her group was the founder of two national centers of excellence (CO NAMASTE and CO NanoCentre). Since 2001, she is continuously coordinating national research projects. Recently she become an advisor to Slovenian Innovation Hub-European Economic Interest Grouping (http://www.sis-egiz.eu/) as an expert responsible for nanosafety. Prof. Dr. Damjana Drobne has supervised or co-supervised about 20 Ph.D. students. She is lecturing at undergraduate as well as postgraduate study programs at the University of Ljubljana in different courses on zoology, toxicology, nanobiology, and nanotoxicology. In 2017, Biotechnical Faculty awarded her by Jesenko Prize in order to recognize her lifetime achievements.