The Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) has announced the results of its 2025 call for (co)financing research projects. This is one of the most important calls promoting top-level science and innovation in Slovenia. We are proud that the agency has recognized the scientific excellence and potential of our researchers and supported 10 projects that will contribute to the development of new knowledge and technologies.
Funded Projects:
Basic Research Projects
- Real-time control of acoustically driven cavitation bubble clusters by Reinforcement Learning – Juan Manuel Rossello
- Laser generation of nanobubbles with precise spatial and temporal control – Rok Petkovšek
- Characterizing the Strength of Biomaterials Under High Strain Rates via Cavitation Bubbles (CAVoMAT) – Jure Zevnik
- HotSpotDrop: Digital microfluidic thermal management of hot-spots – Urban Tomc
- HyDRaCool: Scalable Hybrid Desorption-Radiative Cooling Method for Water Harvesting and Hotspot Thermal Management – Primož Poredoš
- Stabilizing multiphysics simulations for cost-effective and reliable metal processing (Program AD) – Igor Tominec
Applied Research Projects
- Revealing the mechanisms behind the formation of sub-visible particles in biologics based on tribological concepts and fluid-film modelling (TRIBOforBIOLOGICS) – Mitjan Kalin
- Solid-State Booster Heat Pump with Enhanced Pressure-Temperature Control for Efficient Local Heating in Existing Buildings – TECOMFORT – Andrej Kitanovski
Postdoctoral Research Projects – Basic
- Intelligent monitoring of low-frequency environmental sound emitted by smart sources – Luka Čurović
- Open-Source Online Tool and Guidelines for Determination of Thermal Characteristics of Phase Change Materials in Building Elements – Eva Zavrl
From left: Dean Prof. Dr. Jernej Klemenc, Assist. Prof. Dr. Luka Čurović, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Urban Tomc, Prof. Dr. Andrej Kitanovski, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Primož Poredoš, Prof. Dr. Rok Petkovšek, Research Fellow Dr. Jure Zevnik, Prof. Dr. Mitjan Kalin, Assist. Prof. Dr. Eva Zavrl, and Vice-Dean for Research and International Relations Prof. Dr. Franci Pušavec.
We warmly congratulate all the recipients of the selected projects!
Photo: Anže Zevnik