Education
BSc in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2003
PhD in Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2008

Research fields

economic geography – cultural industries, economic transformation of the city and the countryside, urban geography – small industrial towns, post-industrialism, post Fordism, transport geography – daily mobility and land use

Other activities

• member of The Executive Committee and a secretary of the Association of Geographical Societies of Slovenia (2004 – 2007),
• member of the Steering committee of the biannual symposium “Slovenian regional days” (2009 onwards),
• member of the editorial board of the ‘Regional development’ series (2009 onwards),
• member of the editorial board of the ‘Geography of Slovenia’ series (2008 onwards),
• member of the editorial board and the main editor for Regional planning of the international journal Acta Geographica Slovenica (2016 onwards),
• guest editor of the Regions magazine (Regional Studies Association 2009, 2012),
• guest editor of the Special Issue in the Urban Science journal (MDPI, 2019, 2020)
• member of the International editorial advisory board at the Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis (2018– …)
• guest co-editor of the Georhythm series (2015, 2016) and guest editor of the CAPACities series (2020),
• guest co-editor of The Urban Book Series, Springer Publishing (2020)
• member of scientific board of the international conference Geographical research and cross-border cooperation within the lower basin of Danube (2014).
• member of scientific board of the CEE Regional Studies Association Conference (2022),
• member of the HERA Public Spaces International Review Panel (Humanities in the European Research Area)
   

Selected presentations and lectures

• Leveraging the past for the future: industrial culture and its impact on development. Lecture at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Ljubljana, June 2023.
• The Role of Sociocultural Assets in the Revival of Industrial Towns. Lecture at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography, Dublin, Ireland, June 2022.
• The resilient small industrial town in Europe. Lecture at the EUGEO conference 2021, online event from Prague, Czechia, july 2021.
• Industrial culture as an agent of social innovations in industrial towns. Case study of Velenje, Slovenia. Lecture at the 5th Geography of Innovation (GEOINNO) conference in Stavanger, Norway, january 2020. 
• The European Industrial Town: Understanding (post)industrial transitions through local narratives. Lecture at the EURA-UAA »City Futures IV« conference in Dublin, Ireland (June 2019). 
• Assessing and planning the human settlement system in Slovenia: a preliminary report. Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) in Graz, Austria, April 2016
• Geography of daily mobility in post-socialist European countries: evidence from Slovenia. Association of American Geographers in Chicago, USA, April 2015
• Emerging transport land use changes in post-socialist urban environment: example of Slovenia. Lecture at IV. EUGEO congress 2013, Rome, Italy.
• SY_CULTour: synergy of culture and tourism. Invited lecture at the international conference Cultural values and tourism development in rural areas 2013, Heraklion, Greece.
• Studying daily commuting network in Slovenia : one country, one metropolis? Lecture at the Cities without limits 2011 Conference, Kobenhavn, Denmark.