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Ljubljana on the European map of medical radioisotope production
European hospitals regularly face shortages of radioisotopes (or radionuclides) that are essential for detecting and treating cancer. The IFIGENEIA project, in which the University of Ljubljana takes part, is building an ecosystem for producing radioisotopes with new technologies that would bring this supply closer to patients in the region.
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Development of Language Models in All EU Languages
The University of Ljubljana is participating in the European project LLMs4EU (Large Language Models for the European Union), which aims to develop large language models for all official languages of the European Union, including languages with fewer digital resources, such as Slovenian.
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How will living labs help keep soils fertile and resilient?
How can soils remain fertile, resilient to climate change and capable of long-term food production? Answers to these questions are being sought in the European project TRAILS4SOIL in living labs, where farmers, researchers, advisors, industry representatives, policymakers and non-governmental organisations jointly develop, test and evaluate regenerative and conservation agricultural practices.
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Jan Gimpelj Takes Third Place at World Fuel Cell Conference 2026 in Japan
Jan Gimpelj, a PhD student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, has won third place in the 3-Minute Thesis competition at the World Fuel Cell Conference 2026 (WFCC 2026) in Fukuoka, Japan. He competed against 15 other young researchers from around the world.
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The Sea Is More Than a Resource: Study Reveals How People Value It in the Northern Adriatic
Residents of the northern Adriatic do not see the sea merely as a space for tourism or economic activity. For them, it is also a space of identity, heritage and shared values. They therefore stress that protecting the sea is not only an environmental issue, but also a matter of preserving communities and their identity.
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Completion of the KRPAN project: 479 new European projects and permanent consolidation of research support
June saw the completion of the KRPAN project, which was financed by a combination of Recovery and Resilience Plan and national funds. The project, which brought together five Slovenian public research organisations – the universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska, the Jožef Stefan Institute and Koper Science and Research Centre – was coordinated by the University of Ljubljana, consolidated the institutions’ research support significantly, and went considerably beyond the objectives that had been set at the start.
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Filip Todorovski Receives the 2026 Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize
University of Ljubljana Faculty of Mechanical Engineering researcher Filip Todorovski has received the 2026 Oronzio and Niccolò De Nora Foundation Young Author Prize, awarded by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He received the award for a scientific paper examining the effects of contact pressure on the performance and durability of high-temperature fuel cells, published in Electrochimica Acta.
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Dr. Snežana Popov awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for SEROTONIN
Dr. Snežana Popov has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA) for her project SEROTONIN – A Sight for Sore Eyes: Bridging People and Pollinators Through Pollinator Monitoring. She is hosted by the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, where she is conducting the research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gregor Torkar.
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Assistant Professor Svit Komel first Slovenian recipient of the Bader Prize
Assistant Professor Svit Komel of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana is the first Slovenian to receive the prestigious Bader Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for the best work by early-career researchers in the field of the history of science. He received the award for his doctoral dissertation Rule and Measure: A History of Juridical Practices in the Age of Surveys.
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VIDI System Enables Precision Spraying in Vineyards and Orchards
Researchers at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, have developed VIDI, an innovative upgrade that adds precision-spraying functionality to existing vineyard sprayers. Using LiDAR technology, the system detects the presence, density and shape of vegetation in real time, determines the required dose and adjusts the output of each individual nozzle accordingly.
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Are future healthcare professionals ready to use telemedicine?
Telemedicine promises easier access to healthcare, but its future will also depend on the people who will use it. How prepared are future healthcare professionals to work with new technologies?
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Slovene language obtains its own generative large language model GaMS
Researchers at the University of Ljubljana have developed a generative large language model for Slovene GaMS, which places Slovene alongside languages for which advanced open-source artificial intelligence models already exist. This achievement marks an important step towards Slovenia’s technological sovereignty, as it enables the development and use of artificial intelligence tailored to the Slovene language, culture, and the needs of its users.
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Green hydrogen as the foundation of energy independence of military bases
Military bases worldwide remain heavily dependent on fossil fuels for their energy supply, increasing their carbon footprint and vulnerability due to logistical challenges. Researchers from the UL Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia, have developed an innovative methodology for designing autonomous energy hubs based on renewable energy sources and green hydrogen, and demonstrated its capabilities on the case of the energy system of the military barracks in Kranj.
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First Slovenian quantum key distribution network based on entangled photons
Members of the SiQUID project have established Slovenia's first quantum communication network and developed the country's first industrial quantum encryptor. These achievements represent an important step towards the future quantum internet, as quantum technologies are expected to transform secure communications, computing, and sensing in the coming decades.
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Higher diet quality is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia
Higher diet quality is associated with a lower risk of developing dementia, even among older adults with biological markers indicating an increased risk of neurodegenerative diseases. This is the key finding of a new study co-authored by asst. Anja Mrhar, MSc in Nutrition Engineering, a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Biotechnical Faculty UL.
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Global map of ancient DNA research places the University of Ljubljana among the world's leading institutions
The University of Ljubljana ranks among the world's leading research institutions in terms of scientific publications on DNA recovered from ancient human skeletal remains. Particularly noteworthy are the publications of Dr. Irena Zupanič Pajnič, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine UL and Dr. Tamara Leskovar, Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts UL.
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Professor Nina Gunde-Cimerman Becomes the Second Slovenian Woman Elected to EMBO
Professor Nina Gunde-Cimerman of the Department of Biology at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, has been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), one of the world\'s most prestigious organizations in the life sciences. As the second woman from Slovenia and only the sixth Slovenian researcher overall, she has received this recognition, which is awarded by the international scientific community for outstanding research achievements and an exceptional contribution to the advancement of science.
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Prof. Dr. Marko Žnidarič Awarded Prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
Physicist and researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics UL, Prof. Dr. Marko Žnidarič, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) grant for established researchers (ERC Advanced Grant) for his project NUMBS – Effective Non-Unitarity in Many-Body Systems. The ERC Advanced Grant is one of the most prestigious funding schemes available to individual researchers, supporting established scientists with outstanding research achievements.
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Dr. Rachel Trode receives MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Rachel Trode, a researcher from the European University Institute in Italy, has been awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska–Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project BURKNOW. The project will be carried out at the Faculty of Arts under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Rok Stergar.
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Slovenia gains the cutting-edge FRIDA supercomputing infrastructure
On Tuesday, 16 June 2026, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Computer and Information Science (UL FRI) launched FRIDA, a high-performance data centre and new supercomputing infrastructure designed to support research and development partnerships. The opening event was attended by Dr Tomaž Boh, Director-General of the Science and Innovation Directorate at the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth (MIZM); Prof. Dr Gregor Dolinar, UL Vice-Rector for Research and Development; and more than 150 representatives from academia and the business sector.
