Polona Znidarsic Plazl MSc, PhD

Polona Znidarsic Plazl is professor of biotechnology at University of Ljubljana. She graduated in chemical engineering, finished her MSc in biochemistry and obtained her PhD in 2000 at the University of Ljubljana. Beside short-term scientific work at Johns Hopkins University, Graz Technical University and Bayer Research Center in Leverkusen, she performed a research with Professor Goran N. Jovanovic at Oregon State University for altogether one year in 2003/04 and in 2014/15, in the latter case as a Fulbright scholar.

Her major recent research interests are biotransformations and separations in microscale systems. She has published over 40 scientific papers and 2 book chapters and was leading 2 EU projects and several bilateral cooperations at University of Ljubljana considering development of enzymatic microreactors. She is a Co-Chair of the series of international conferences Implementation of Microreactor Technology in Biotechnology – IMTB, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the EFB Section on Applied Biocatalysis, of the Management Committee of the COST Action Systems Biocatalysis and of the Editorial Board of the journal Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly.