EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS
| 2016 | Habilitation: Full professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
| 2005 | Habilitation: Associate professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
| 2000 | Habilitation: Assistant professor in physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
| 1996 | Ph.D. in Physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Physics Department; Thesis: Investigations of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals by means of Optical Second-Harmonic Generation. |
| 1991 | M. Sc. in Physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics Department; Thesis: Light Scattering by Orientational Fluctuations in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals. |
| 1990 | Habilitation: Teaching assistant in physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics Department |
| 1988 | B. Sc. in Physics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, Diploma work: Determination of Optical Activity of Biaxial Crystals. |
POSITIONS
| 2016- | Senior Research Fellow, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Professor, Nankai University, Tianjin, PR China (winter term) |
| 2010-2011 | Senior Research Associate, Center of Excellence for Polymer Materials and Technologies (PoliMaT), Slovenia |
| 2006-2016 | Senior Research Associate, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2006- | Lecturer in physics, Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana |
| 2006 | Visiting Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna (summer term) |
| 2001-2006 | Research Associate, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1998-1999 | Visiting Scientist, Research Institute for Materials, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| 1998-2000 | Post-doc Associate, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1996-2006 | Teaching Assistant, Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1993 | Visiting Scientist, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence, Italy |
| 1992-1998 | Senior Research Assistant, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1990-1992 | Research Assistant, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1988-1990 | Research Beginner, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 1996-2006 | Leading of problem solving exercises and laboratory work, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of mechanical engineering, Biotechnical faculty and Faculty of textile engineering (activities: 1989-1996: 2-3 hours per week, 1996-2006: 10-11 hours per week), courses: elementary physics, modern physics, classical electricity and magnetism, electrooptics, practicum I, practicum II |
Lecturing:
| 2002- | Electrooptics (in recent years course of Photonics) for students of the faculty of Mathematics and Physics (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2003-2018 | Optoelectronics for students of the faculty of Mathematics and Physics (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2002-2007 | Fundamental physics for students of the Faculty of natural sciences and engineering (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2006 | Non-linear optical properties of soft matter, seminar on “Self-assembly of macromolecules in solution”, University of Vienna. |
| 2008- | “Physics of oscillations and waves”, Faculty of Education (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2009-2013 | Modern Physics, Faculty of Education (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2012-2013 | Photonics and Technologies and Physics Discussions: Introduction to Soft Matter Physics, Nankai University, China. |
| 2013, 2016- | Optics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (University of Ljubljana) |
| 2013-2016 | Fundamental physics, Faculty of computer engineering (University of Ljubljana). |
| 2013- | Coordinator of the PhD study programme of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (University of Ljubljana). |
Mentoring:
Supervisor of 7 Ph.D. students, 11 M.Sc. students, 30 B.Sc. students, 2 IAESTE students, 2 ERASMUS students:
Popularization of Science:
Popular science lectures and seminars given in Slovenian secondary schools and at workshops for secondary school children organized by the Slovenian Association of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers (DMFA). Coordinator of popularscience workshops at annual Slovenian festival of Science. Coordinator of the sub-project “chain experiment” in the framework of the International project World year of physics 2005 (WYP 2005), Adviser of the national “Chain experiment” activitytaking place as spin-off activity of the WYP2005 events. Representative of Slovenia in EuroPhysicsFun association. Collaboration with “House of Experiments” in Ljubljana and Technical Museum of Slovenia (Bistra) in different activities. Member of coordination committee of the Slovenian Young Physicist Tournament. External judge at AYPT and IYPT competitions.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Participation in professional boards and committees:
| 2017- | Vice-head of Department of physics, Faculty of mathematics and physics, Univ. of Ljubljana |
| 2015- | Member of senate of Faculty of mathematics and physics, Univ. of Ljubljana |
| 2014- | Member of editorial board for Materials Research Express (IOP Publishing) |
| 2014- | Expert evaluator for European commission – programme Horizon 2020 |
| 2013- | Member of the Comission for doctoral degree studies, University of Ljubljana |
| 2010- | Expert evaluator for Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology |
| 2010-2014 | Member of the council of Center of Excellence for Polymer Materials and Technologies (PoliMaT), Slovenia |
| 2009- | Member of editorial board of Slovenian scientific magazine “Obzornik za matematiko in fiziko” |
| 2009-2011 | Member of senate of Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana |
| 2009-2012 | Member of commission for quality of higher education at Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana |
| 2009- | Member of organizing committee of physics competitions: Slovenian Young Physicist Tournament (SYPT) |
| 2007-2013 | Expert evaluator for European commission, 7th framework programme (FP7) |
| 2007- | Expert evaluator for Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) |
| 2004-2009 | Editor for physics, Slovenian magazine “Obzornik za matematiko in fiziko” |
| 2006- | Expert evaluator for European Science Foundation (ESF) |
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
Participation in international projects:
| 2002-2006 | Research collaborator in european center of excellence: G5MA-CT-2002-04023 “Application of Liquid Crystals for Advanced Nanoscale Devices and Optics” (ALCANDO) |
| 1998-2002 | Research collaborator in european network: ERB FMRXCT 980209 “Surfaces and Interfaces of Liquid Crystals” (SILC) |
| 2005 | Regional coordinator of the activity »Chain experiment« within EU project WYP2005-Europe (DMFA). |
| 2008-2012 | Member of the managment committee (MC) of COST project MP0802 – Self-assembled guanosine structures for molecular electronic devices. |
| 2009-2013 | Chair of the managment committee (MC) of COST project MP0902 – Composites of inorganic nanotubes and polymers (COINAPO) |
| 2012-2014 | Slovenian coordinator of the project ”Cooperative research on novel photosensitive polymeric nanocomposites and their photonic microstructures” (International S&T cooperation program of China 2011DFA52870) |
| 2000- | Slovenian coordinator of 5 bilateral projects with Austria, 2 bilateral projects with Italy, 1 bilateral project with Ukraine, and 4 bilateral projects with China |
| 2016-2018 | Slovenian coordinator of the project of bilateral cooperation between Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA):”Microfluidic systems based on anisotropic soft matter” |
| 2019-2020 | Slovenian coordinator of the PROTEUS project »Microstructuring of liquid crystals and manipulation of light with photorefractive materials« |
Participation in national projects:
| 2018-2020 | Head of research programme P1-0192: »Light and Matter« |
| 2018-2021 | Head of research project J7-9399: »Phase transitions in systems of nucleotide repeat expansions associated with neurodegenerative diseases« |
| 2016-2017 | Coordinator of the project of creative learning: »Couplers for microstructured optical fibers« |
| 2014-2014 | Coordinator of the project for science promotion MU-PROM/2014-042: »International Young Physicists Tournament 2014« |
| 1999-2019 | Research collaborator in research programme P1-0192: »Light and Matter« |
| 2011-2014 | Research collaborator in research project J1-4307: »Collective and Molecular Dynamics of Photosensitive Liquid Crystal Elastomers« |
| 2006-2008 | Vice-contractor for the industrial R&D project: »New laser sources for microreconnoitring systems«, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and company Fotona d.d., Ljubljan |
| 2004-2007 | Research collaborator in rasearch project J1-6502: »Biophysical process studied by optical tweezers« |
| 1999-2003 | Research collaborator in rasearch programme P0-0503-1554: »Fundamental research in physics« |
| 1996-2001 | Research collaborator in rasearch project J1-7474: »Optics and laser spectroscopy of liquid crystals« |
Publications
| 1989- | Author/coauthor of 8 scientific book chapters, coauthor of more than 100 scientific papers in international journals ranked by SCI |
| Papers: | Author/coauthor of more than 25 conference papers and more than 10 professional and popular science papers. |
| Full list: | For full list of publications: see COBISS data base, personal bibliographies, Last Name and First Name = Drevensek Olenik Irena [link] |
| Citations: | Accordingly to the data base Web of Science (WoS) until March 2019: sum of times cited > 1000, h-index = 19 (author = DREVENSEK-OLENIK I or OLENIK ID or DREVENSEK I or DREVENSEKOLENIK I) |
AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
| 1988 | The France Prešeren prize for students of Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ljubljana |
| 2006 | Award of Slovenian association of mathematicians, physicist and astronomers (DMFA) |
MEMBERSHIPS
| 1997- | Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy Society of Slovenia (DMFA) |
| 1999- | Intenational Liquid Crystal society (ILCS) |