Jožef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia

Igor Serša

Jožef Stefan Institute Condensed Matter Physics Deparment Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Tel.: + 386 1 477 3696 Fax.: + 386 1 477 3191 e-mail: igor.sersa@ijs.si

Education
B.Sc. 1991, M.Sc. 1994, Ph.D. in Physics 1996:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana

Teaching
Teaching assistant 1994-2002, Assistant professor 2002-2011, Associate professor 2011-2017, Full professor 2017- :
Department of Physics, FMF, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Leadership
1999- Head of the laboratory for magnetic resonance imaging at Jožef Stefan Institute
2010-2013 Head of the research program RRP15 within the Centre of Excellency EN-FIST
2013-2014 Head of the scientific program group »Experimental Biophysics of Complex Systems«

International cooperation and visits
1992 University College London, London, United Kingdom
1992 International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
1994 Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, United Kingdom
1995-2006 Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA
2001 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2013 Kyung Hee University, Suwon, Korea

Main Research Topics
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Microscopy:

• magnetic resonance imaging of electric currents
• excitation of MR signal from an arbitrarily shaped region of the sample
• magnetic resonance of porous materials
• thrombolysis research: MRI and mathematical modeling
• magnetic resonance in wood science
• magnetic resonance in food science

Awarded Research Grants (principal investigator)
ARRS grant J1-0313, 1998-2001
ARRS grant J3-6095, 2004-2007
ARRS grant J3-0610, 2008-2011
ARRS grant J4-2053, 2009-2012
ARRS grant J3-9288, 2018-2021

Organization of Conferences and Meetings
2014 “Alpine NMR Workshop Bled”, Bled, Slovenia, September 18-21, 2014
2017 “Alpine NMR Workshop Bled”, Bled, Slovenia, September 21-24, 2017
2020 “Alpine NMR Workshop Bled”, Bled, Slovenia, September 17-20, 2020