Samo Tuma
Samo Tuma, an alumnus of the UL Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, was an engineer at Cosylab and was responsible for strategic partners in the field of proton therapy and medical devices. He also works at CERN as a representative of the Slovenian economy.
Samo Tuma graduated from the Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics in 2013 and immediately joined Cosylab. He initially worked as an engineer in an international team that developed the control system for a proton accelerator for the treatment of cancer tumours as part of the MedAustron project in neighbouring Austria. He later progressed to systems architect and manager of large-scale projects and integration teams in the USA, Switzerland and China. In 2015, he moved to Geneva and was eventually promoted to one of the most important sales engineers at Cosylab.
When Slovenia joined the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2017, Samo took on the role of Slovenia's business representative at CERN, where he helped to bring CERN closer to Slovenian companies and establish the first collaborations between CERN and Slovenian industry.
His research work during his student exchange in Malmö, Sweden, focused on metaheuristic genetic algorithms, in which he also obtained a Master's degree, and later in his career mainly on the efficient integration of control systems for particle accelerators, where he published a paper together with MedAustron at the prestigious International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 14).