Education Background:
2025 Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), Univesity for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom.
2008-2016 PhD in Graphic and Interactive Communications, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2003-2008 BSc in Graphic Engineering and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Previous Employment:
2024-Present Lecturer, Institute of Creativity and Innovation, Xiamen University & University for the Crestive Arts, China.
2018-2024 Assistant professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2009-2018 Assistant, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2005-2009 Graphic designer/Video Editor, Public Institute RTV, Slovenian National Television Station, Slovenia.
Research Interests:
Graphic Design, Typography, Visual Communication Design, Interactive Technology, User Experience/User Interfaces, Communication Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Analogue & Digital Design.
Publications (Selected)：
Implementation of shape and style into content recognition (2024).12th International Symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design GRID.
Masculinity in Advertising: The power of Verbal Cue (2023), Journal of graphic engineering and design.
International students and health communication in Slovenia, monograph (2023), University of Ljubljana Publishing.
Visibility and legibility of five-letter words in different experimental conditions (2022), Journal of graphic engineering and design.
You read best what you read most: an eye tracking study (2020), Journal of eye movement research.
Effects of colour combination on short-words processing speed (2019), Technical Gazette.
Typeface comparison - Does the x-height of lower-case letters increased to the size of upper-case letters speed up recognition? (2016), International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
Effect of typeface, letter case and position on recognition of short words presented on-screen (2016), Behaviour & Information Technology.
Projects：
Bilateral project of scientific and research cooperation between the Republic of Slovenia and the United States of America, 2022−2024.
Alien PLAnt SpEcies−from harmful to useful alien plants with active involvement of residents, 2021.
Improving communication with foreign students in the Student Health Center of the University of Ljubljana, 2020.
Teaching geological content in primary and secondary schools through interactive textbooks, 2019
Raising awareness of residents of the municipality of Kamnik about creeping phenomena, 2018.
Development of letterpress wooden letters, 2018.
