Members of the program serve on editorial boards of several international scientific journals (Rudolf Podgornik is coeditor in chief of Journal of Biological physics. Rudolf Podgornik, Mojca Čepič, Marko Marhl are members of editorial boards of Scientific Reports, European Journal of Physics, The Scientific World Journal and BioSystems, respectively) and national journals (Marko Marhl, Mojca Čepič and Milan Brumen are members of editorial boards of Fizika v šoli, Presek and Proteus, respectively). In addition, we review manuscripts for many prominent international journals; in 2015 we peer-reviewed more than 70 manuscripts. Program members serve as external referees for ERC grants and Marie Curie individual fellowships.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Members of the program are actively involved in teaching and administrative positions at three national universities: in Ljubljana, Maribor and Nova Gorica. In 2015, Nataša Vaupotič was a Vice-Rector at University of Maribor and the Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at University of Maribor, Gvido Bratina was a Vice-Rector at University of Nova Gorica and Marko Marhl was the Dean at the Faculty of Education at University of Maribor. We taught more than 50 undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervised or co-supervised 3 PhD theses and 17 undergraduate theses. Members of the program were visiting scholars at universities in the USA, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and France, and we hosted several foreign students on various exchange programs.
D.10 Educational activities
Primož Ziherl was a co-director of the summer school "Soft Matter Self-Assembly", International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" (Varenna, Italy, 28.6.–7.7.). Mojca Čepič served on the advisory boards of "5th International Conference on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals" (Prague, Czech Republic, 28.6.-3.7.) and "The "13th European Conference on Liquid Crystals" (Manchester, UK, 7.-11.9.). Marko Marhl was a member of the organizing committee of an international workshop "CITIES AS ORGANISMS; Scaling and Networks in Urban, Social, and Biological Systems" (Maribor, Slovenia, 19.-20. 2.). Špela Zemljič Jokhadar served on the committees of the European Cytoskeletal Forum (Postojna, Slovenia, 30.8.-4.9.) and "XV Middle European Buiatric Congress" (Maribor, Slovenia, 10.-13.6.). In addition, members of the program gave a total of 14 invited talks and more than 40 other contributions at international scientific meetings, and 11 talks at foreign universities.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Members of the program are actively involved in various fields of popularization of science. Aleš Fajmut and Uroš Tkalec co-organized and participated in a number talks and workshops aimed at students of primary and secondary schools. Saša Vrhovec Hartman participated in events at hands-on science center "Hiša eksperimentov." Marko Marhl is a member of the scientific committee for the award "Science communicator" at the Slovenian Science Foundation. Mojca Čepič published a book "Liquid crystals through experiments" (San Rafael: Morgan & Claypool Publishers) aimed at facilitating the transfer of new discoveries in physics into schools and to undergraduate programs.
F.17 Transfer of existing technologies, know-how, methods and procedures into practice
Members of the program from UM are involved in development of a noninvasive methods for assessment of intolerance on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (with TalkingCells, Weisbaden, DE), in research of eye lens pathology (with University Medical Centre Ljubljana) and in analysis of left ventricular contractility (with University Medical Centre Maribor). Members from UL participate in a longterm collaboration on research of intermolecular interactions (with Lek Pharmaceuticals, d.d.) and started a collaboration on applications of microfluidics in immunology (with the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology at UL). In 2015 a Polish patent describing a device for measuring the magnetic dipole moment of nanoparticles was granted to Nataša Vaupotič and coworkers. Mojca Pavlin collaborates with Kolektor group on applications of nano-particles in biomedicine, and Uroš Tkalec with Šampionka d.o.o. and The National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food.
F.13 Development of new production methods and tools or processes