Teaching staff

Matevž Zupančič PhD.

title: Assistant Professor
work position: phd assistant
chair: 07 Chair of Heating and Process Engineering
laboratory: Laboratory for Heating Technology LTT
room no.: 309
telephone: 309
e-mail:
laboratory website: http://www.ltt.fs.uni-lj.si/
Contact hours

Each working day from 8h to 14h in office 309. Please send me the e-mail in advance.

Education

- 2017 PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 3rd Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

- 2013 MSc in Mechanical Engineering, 2nd Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

- 2011 BSc in Mechanical Engineering, 1st Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

Employment

- 2018 – danes: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

- 2017 – 2018: Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

- 2013 – 2017: Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana.

Leading and other important functions

- 2013 – present: Leading of Laboratory work in 1st Bologna Cycle courses (Professional Study Programme, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana): Environmental Process Technologies and Process Technology.

- 2013 – present: Leading of Exercises and Laboratory work in 1st Bologna Cycle courses (Research and Development Programme, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana): Energies and Environment and Heat Transfer.

- 2013 – present: Leading of Exercises and Laboratory work in 1st Bologna Cycle courses (Research and Development Programme, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana): Thermodynamics of Compounds, Process Technology, Heat Exchangers and Mechanical Wastewater Treatment Technologies.

- 2017 – 2018: Operational management of the project Development of membrane filtration system for nanofiltration of PAE resins (no. IG-017/6). Project was financed by chemical company Melamin d.d and was formally leaded by Prof. Dr. Iztok Golobič.

- 2016: leading author in 1 scientific paper.

Prizes and awards

- 2009: Award for best average grade in 1st year of undergraduate study (1st Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

- 2009-2013: Recipient of Zois scholarship, Slovenia.

- 2010: Award for second best average grade in 2nd year of undergraduate study (1st Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

- 2012: Award for best average grade in 1st year of graduate study (2nd Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

- 2013: Award for best average grade in 2ndt year of graduate study (2nd Bologna Cycle, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

- 2014: Krka's award for Master thesis Efficiency Enhancement in Ultrafiltration of River Water, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Janez Diaci, co-supervisor: Prof. Dr. Iztok Golobič (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

- 2016: Best solution award among more than 500 applications on international industrial competition Detecting the Orientation of a Human Body Lying on a Surface held by the InnoCentive platform.

- 2016: Outstanding reviewer award from international scientific journal Applied Thermal Engineering (Impact Factor 3.771).

- 2018: Outstanding reviewer award from international scientific journal International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Impact Factor 3.891).

Slovenian holder of national and international projects (duration of at least 3 years)

J2-2486: Enhanced boiling heat transfer utilising hierarchical functionalized surfaces (eHEATs)

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