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Prof. Dr. Uroš Cvelbar

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Education

2005 PhD in Material Science. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2002 MsBA in Economy. Economic Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000BS in Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Appointments In The Source Record

2019 – source date Head; Department of Gaseous Electronics (F6), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2019 – source dateFull Professor for Nanotechnology; Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (MPŠ), Ljubljana, Slovenia

2013 – source dateVisiting Research Professor; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China

Previous Positions

2014 – 2019Associate Professor for Nanotechnologies; Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (MPŠ), Ljubljana, Slovenia

2014 – 2018 Senior Researcher / Scientific Secretary; Department for Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics (F4), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2010 – 2013 Research Associate and Project Leader; Centre of Excellence for Polymer Materials (PolyMat) funded by European Regional Development Fund, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2009 – 2014 Research Associate; Department F4, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

2008 – 2014 Assistant Professor for Nanotechnologies; Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006 – 2009 Research Assistant; Department F4, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

2002 – 2005 Young Researcher; Department for Surface Engineering and Optoelectronics (F4), Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Selected Fellowships And Awards

2019 – source dateFellow, World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS)

2011 – 2012 ERUDITE Visiting Professor, Scholars-inResidence Programme. School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerla, India.

2011Puh Award, the highest Slovenian Award for breakthrough achievements and transfer of knowledge to practice. Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport

2007 – 2008 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2002 – 2005 PhD grant for Young Researcher by National Science Foundation of Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Slovenia

Teaching Activities / Organisation Of Scientific Meetings

Teacher of postgraduate courses: Advanced Plasma Processing, Gas sensors, Plasma Nanoscience, Individual research.

Organizer of scientific meetings: 22 including different international conferences; organization of ECS DST section: Plasma Nano Science and Technology (2015-), Thermal and Plasma CVD (2008-); organizer of iPlasmaNano series

Institutional Responsibilities

2019 – source date Head of Department F6, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

2018 – source date Resource dateative of Jožef Stefan Institute in European Association of Research & Technology Organisations (EARTO) for Space

2016 – source date Chair of a Quality Assurance Committee, Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2008 – 2018 Scientific Secretary of Department F4, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

Commissions Of Trust

2020 – source date Editorial board member, Associated Editor, Micro and Nano Engineering, Elsevier.

2019 – source date Editorial board member, Associated Editor, Microelectronic Engineering, Elsevier.

2019 – source date Editorial board member, Associated Editor, Nanomaterials, MDPI.

2018 – source date Editorial board member, Nature Scientific Data, Springer-Nature

2015 Guest Editor; Plasma Sources Science and Technology (2015), Bristol, UK.

2014 – source dateAssociate Editor, (field editor) Frontiers in energy research, Lausanne, Swiss.

2014 – source dateAssociate Editor, (field editor) Frontiers in materials, Lausanne, Swiss.

2012 Guest Editor; Composite interfaces, Zeist

2011 – 2017 Guest Editor; Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics (2011, 2017), Bristol, UK

2010 – source date Guest Editor; ECS Transactions (2010, 2012, 2016), USA

Memberships Of Scientific Societies

2020 – source dateVice-chair of Dielectric Science and Technology (DST) Division at Electrochemical Society (ECS), USA

2016 – source dateChair, Plasma Nanoscience Society

2017 – 2019Secretary of Dielectric Science and Technology (DST) Division at Electrochemical Society (ECS), USA

2013 – 2016Secretary of Plasma Science Division at IUVSTA (International Union for Vacuum Science Technique and Applications), USA

2013 – source dateMember of Executive Board of Dielectric Science and Technology (DST) Division at Electrochemical Society (ECS), USA

2009 – source dateFounding Member and Executive Board Member; Research Network Plasma Nanoscience “iPlasmaNano” - Plasma Nanoscience Society

2008 – source dateBoard Members-at-Large of Dielectric Science and Technology (DST) Division at Electrochemical Society (ECS), USA

2013 – 2019Chair of Supervisory Board of Slovenian Vacuum Society (DVTS), Slovenia

2003 –source dateMember; Slovenian Vacuum Society (Društvo za vakuumsko tehniko Slovenije); Society MIDEM; Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS) at IEEE; Electrochemical Society (ECS); International Plasma Chemistry Society; International Society for Plasma Medicine (2010-)

Major Collaborations

1. Ten resource dateative publications:

Park S.; Cvelbar, U.; Choe W.; The creation of electric wind due to the electrohydrodinamic force. Nature Communications, 2018, 9, 371. IF 12.124

Baranov O.; Bazaka K.; Kersten H.; Keidar M.; Cvelbar, U. et al. Plasma under control: Advanced solutions and perspectives for plasma flux management in material treatment and nanosynthesis. Applied physics reviews, 2017, 4, 4, 041302. IF 13.667

Cvelbar, U.; Chen, Z.; Levchenko, I.; Sheetz, R.M.; Jasinski, J.; Menon, M.; Sunkara, K.M.; Ostrikov, K., Sub-oxide-to-metallic, uniformly-nanoporous crystalline nanowires by plasma oxidation and electron reduction. Chemical communications 2012, 48, 90, 11070-11072. IF 6.319

Cvelbar, U.; Chen, Z.; Sunkara, M.K., Mozetič, M., Spontaneous growth of superstructure αFe2O3 nanowire and nanobelt arrays in reactive oxygen plasma. Small 2008, 4, 10, 1610-1614. IF 8.64

Chen, Z.; Cvelbar, U.; Mozetič, M.; He, J.; Sunkara, M.K., Long-range ordering of oxygen-vacancy planes in αFe2O3 nanowires and nanobelts. Chemistry of materials 2008, 20, 9, 3224-3228. IF

Cvelbar, U., Towards large-scale plasma-assisted synthesis of nanowires. Journal of physics. D, Applied physics, 2011, 44, 174014. IF

Mozetič, M.; Cvelbar, U., A method for the rapid synthesis of large quantities of metal oxide nanowires at low temperatures. Advanced Materials 2005, 17, 17, 2138-2142. IF 9.466

Cvelbar, U.; Levchenko, I.; Filipič, G.; Mozetič, M.; Ostrikov, K., Plasma control of morpho-dimensional selectivity of hematite nanostructures. Applied physics letters 2012, 100, 24, 243103. IF 3.411

Ostrikov, K.; Cvelbar, U.; Murphy, A.B., Plasma nanoscience: setting directions, tackling grand challenges. Journal of physics. D, Applied physics 2011, 44, 174001. IF 2.772

Filipič, G.; Cvelbar, U., Copper oxide nanowires: a review of growth. Nanotechnology 2012, 23, 19, 194001. IF 3.446

2. Research monographs: 2

(1) Thomas, S.; Grande, D.; Cvelbar, U.; Raju, K.V.S.N., Narayan, R.; Thomas, S. P.; Akhina, H. (ed.). Micro- and nano-structured interpenetrating polymer networks : from design to applications. Hoboken: Wiley, 2016. XVI, 406 pp, ISBN 978-1-118-13817-5. (2) Thomas, S.; Mozetič, M.; Cvelbar, U.; Špatenka, P.; Praveen, K.M. Non-thermal plasma technology for polymeric materials: Application in composites, nanostructured materials, and biomedical fields. Elsevier, 2019, 480 pp, ISBN 978-0-12-813152-7; Chapters: 4

3. Examples of leadership in industrial innovation or design:

The development of a method for improving the electrical connection properties of the surface of a product made from a polymer-matrix composite: The technological process for treatment of polymer matrix composites, which has been protected by international patent (EP 1828434), has been successfully transferred in a massive production of composite commutators at the company Kolektor Group, Idrija, Slovenia. For over 6 years, serial production is going on at the extent of more than 60 million pieces annually, resource dateing about 40 percent of world market in this segment.

4. Granted patents: 19

5. Invited source dateations to internationally established conferences: 93 (2006-2020) including

6. Organization of international conferences as lead organizer 22

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