Research Fields
Carbon dioxide activation
Group leader: izr. prof. dr. Blaž Likozar
- Catalytic conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels
In Silico Catalysis
Group leader: doc. dr. Matej Huš
- Quantum chemical simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, microkinetic modelling, computational fluid dynamics
Process and product engineering for pharmaceutical and food industry
Group leader: dr. Filipa A. Vicente
- Development of sustainable and biocompatible technologies for the production of food and pharmaceutical ingredients
Biomass-derived building blocks
Group leader: doc. dr. Miha Grilc
- Conversion of lignocellulosic and marine biomass into useful chemicals and products.
Bioplastics, biocomposites and zero-waste technologies
Group leader: dr. Uroš Novak
- Developing advanced biomaterials and biocomposites from biopolymers
- Zero-waste technologies for food and cosmetics industry, and biomedicine
- Circular bioeconomy concepts
Bioinformatics of chemical reactions in microbiome metabolic responses
Group leader: prof. dr. Blaž Stres
- Microbiome information layers (functional genes, enzymatic reactions, metabolic pathways, metabolomes)
- Bio/Polymer degradation and synthesis
- Microbiome molecular evolution in responses to thermodynamic challenges