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Tuesday, 30 August 2022 New position for a Research Assistant with a PhD at the project Horizon Europe BGE is available

The University of Primorska is seeking a Research Assistant with a PhD and experience in genomics and bioinformatics, in the area of whole genome sequencing. This position is full-time (40 hours per week) for 2 years with possibilities for extension. The successful candidate will mostly be involved in the EU-funded project "Biodiversity Genomic Europe" and in a national project on wildlife genomics.

However, the group they’ll be part of, the Molecular Ecology group at the Department of Biodiversity, uses molecular tools to investigate many different topics and species, from wildlife monitoring to adaptation, and from conservation biology to wildlife management, opening opportunities for additional collaborations.

Your tasks include contribution to:

• the management of research projects,
• maintaining and promoting open science practices.

Specific duties may include:

• genomic sampling,
• building DNA and RNA libraries,
• developing and applying bioinformatic pipelines,
• performing population genomic and related analyses,
• performing other data science and statistical analyses,
• documenting work performed; maintaining databases,
• contributing to research papers,
• resolving a diverse range of problems with creativity,
• teaching, training, and supervising students,
• coordinating the work,
• planning, establishing, and refining protocols,
• preparing reports,
• managing grant funds.

Depending on the applicant’s interest, some teaching could be included. Work environment will include also international travel due to project meetings.

Your profile:

• a relevant university education with a completed doctoral/PhD degree and a strong potential in research,
• proficiency in UNIX command line and high-performance computing,
• script writing skills in at least one language (R, Python or Perl),
• experience building population genomic libraries, developing bioinformatic pipelines, and conducting population genomics analyses is preferred but not required,
• exceptional organizational skills and strong ability to accomplish tasks independently,
• willingness to supervise graduation/master theses, and to promote young scientists,
• excellent spoken and written English.

We offer:

• The advertised position is for an initial period of 2 years.
• The position will be paid according to the category of the Collective agreement for employees at Slovenian universities.
• We offer a collaborative, supportive, and interdisciplinary work environment, opportunities to be involved in a wide range of international research projects, opportunities for learning and professional development, and the expectation of co-authorship on scientific manuscripts.
• At the end of the 2 years period, pending positive evaluation, the contract could be extended into an Assistant Professorship.

Application instructions:

Interested applicants are requested to send the application in electronic form to stepchange@famnit.upr.si, and with "Postdoc in bioinformatics" in the object.

Please attach in pdf format:

• a cover letter explaining your interest in the position and how you fit the description,
• a CV,
• a list of publications highlighting the five most relevant ones.

Application deadline: 15 October, 2022

Friday, 26 August 2022 August ends with the successful summer camp editions

We spent the last days of August in the company of young enthusiasts of mathematics and computer science, who participated in the summer camps Matematika je KUL and Orada RAčunalniška Delavnica. In this year's edition, 15 elementary and high school students joined us with a united desire to discover both mathematical riddles and computer science tricks.

During the lectures, which took place from 21 to 25 August at UP Famnit, the participants of the Matematika je KUL camp learned about the beginnings of cryptography as well as statistics, where they learned more about security keys and predictions such as who will win the election or what the next day's weather will be like. They acquired new knowledge about graph theory, the application of mathematics in biology and game theory.

Young computer science enthusiasts, who made up the curious group of participants of the Orada RAčunalniška Delavnica camp, had the opportunity to learn and create their own computer game with the Unity 3D tool and got to know the world of cryptocurrencies and secret codes, then and now.

Participants used the newly acquired knowledge in group workshops to prepare final products, which they presented to their parents on the last day of the camp.

The entertainment part was, of course, also taken care of, which the participants, as they themselves added, particularly liked. We hung out over various mind games and sports activities, tried out VR glasses and danced in body tracking suits.

UP FAMNIT organizes camps with the aim of popularizing mathematics and computer science, as we strive to show young people with examples from practice that these fields can be fun, interesting and, above all, useful. The participants who return to the camps are proof of the achieved purpose and success of the camps.

Thursday, 25 August 2022 Deadline extension for the Young Researchers' Training Programme at UP IAM

Friday, 19 August 2022 Today opens the 2nd application deadline for enrollment in undergraduate study programs for Slovene nationals, EU citizens and Slovene nationals without Slovene citizenship

Today, 19 August 2022, is opened the second application deadline for the first year of study in study year 2022/23, for Slovene nationals, EU citizens and Slovene nationals without Slovene citizenship. The application deadline is 23. August 2022. 

Aavailable places for EU citizens:

• Bioinformatics (UN) Slovene and English version
• Mathematics (UN) Slovene and English version
• Computer Science (UN) Slovene and English version
• Mathematics in Economics and Finance (UN)
• Mediterranean Agriculture (VS)
• Conservation Biology (UN)

Available places for Slovene nationals without Slovene citizenship:

• on all undergraduate study programmes

The call for application and instructions for submitting the application are published HERE

Candidates can obtain additional information at the Student Services.

Thursday, 18 August 2022 Presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation – Petra Horvat

We invite you to the presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation Knowledge management systems at the civil engineering research organizations and their impacts on scientific excellence of the student Petra Horvat, enrolled in the doctoral study programme Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments.

The presentation will take place on Wednesday, 24 August 2022 at 16.00 in InnoRenew CoE, Livade 6a, 6310 Izola, room Tilia and via Zoom on link: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/85282887807

Tuesday, 16 August 2022 In collaboration with the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 a Web-based temperature regulation application was created

The Faculty for Mathematics, Natural Science and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT), hosted Assoc. Prof. Lionel Medini, who took part in a one-week ERASMUS + exchange, from 2 August to 8 August 2022, where he collaborated with Prof. Michael Mrissa.  

Prof. Medini is a researcher and associate professor of computer science from Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University in France.  

The purpose of the visit was both research discussion, knowledge transfer and lectures, which consisted of the first part about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), a second part about Web of Things (WoT) development, and the third part about Web application development. 

Each lecture was combined with a practical session, where the students could experiment with the technologies and with physical hardware lent by Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, through which they were able to create a Web-based temperature regulation application.

The Web application dynamically detects users' activity and adjusts their minimum and maximum temperature preferences accordingly. 

More about the application can be read here. 

     
                                                               Lectures by Assoc. Prof. Lionel Medini

Tuesday, 9 August 2022 Slovenian team at the CEOI 2022 in Croatia

Tuesday, 9 August 2022 FAMNIT students once again successful at the 29th International Student Mathematical Competition (IMC)

The 29. International Mathematics Competition for University Students 2022 (IMC) was held between 1st and 7th August 2022, where, now traditionally, FAMNIT students competed among 667 participants from all over the world.  

This year, UP FAMNIT students performed with exceptional results. Ranking best was Diar Gashi (1st year, Mathematics), who received a bronze medal with 21 points, while the honorary mention went to Dren Neziri (1st year, Mathematics), Mirza Redzić (1st year, Mathematical Sciences) and Todor Antić (3rd year, Mathematics). 

We would also like to congratulate Dorotea Redžepi (2nd year, Mathematics) and Ajla Šehović (3rd year, Mathematics) who received a certificate of participation. 

After two years the IMC was finally held live. The competition was organized under the auspices of University College London and hosted by the American University in Bulgaria. Hybrid participation also allowed for online competition, where the final results are not published yet.

We congratulate our students for their achievements and wish them a lot of success in their future endeavours!

More information on the IMC, as well as problems and solutions, is available here.

      
                                                                     Achievements of our students

Friday, 5 August 2022 Active summer - we visited the All-Slovenian scouts’ event Taborniški Zlet 2022

At Famnit, we have an active summer despite the summer break. Our researchers and students took part in an All-Slovenian scout’event Taborniški zlet 2022, which hosted over 700 scouts and 300 volunteers from Slovenia.

It is the biggest event for young scouts in Slovenia organized by the Association of scouts, taking place from 29 July to 7 August 2022 at the Ski Resort Cerkno. The event is organised only every four years and it is an excellent opportunity to meet old friends, and at the same time to actively connect with nature and oneself, as the organizers wrote on their website invitation.

As the head of the Association of Campers of Slovenia added in his statement for the RTV Slovenia: “The main thread of the program this year is the code of visits to nature, which has various components, one of the main ones being that we are in nature and that we have a sustainable and positive impact on nature.”

As in the contribution of RTV Slovenia, the Association of Campers of Slovenia added that this year the basis of the program is the codex of visits to nature, which has various sections, one of the main ones being that we part of the nature and that we should have a sustainable and positive impact on it.

In the first part of the week, the scouts set off on a four-day journey. After their return, together with the volunteers, they co-created a camp at the top of the Cerkno Ski Resort, where they are spending the rest of the week socializing and engaging in various activities before returning home.

Afternoons at the camp are dedicated to workshops that are promoting science, some of which were organized by Famnit's researchers and students. Young participants had the opportunity to participate in various puzzle games and computer science workshops.

This is what Karolina Trajkovska, Famnit student of Computer scence had to say about participating at the event: "It was a lot of fun working with the children and showing them the work we do at Famnit and the HICUP Lab. I believe the event was enjoyed by the children as well. They were really interested in all of our activities. By participating, they also picked up some programming skills and some new Japanese words. Overall, I'd say it was a really successful day. It was an amazing experience that I would gladly repeat at any time."

Here are some more highlights from Taborniški Zlet

More about the camp

Thursday, 4 August 2022 Presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation – Lea Primožič

We invite you to the presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation Communication of sustainable construction concepts based on scientific evidence tailored to relevant stakeholders of the student Lea Primožič, enrolled in the doctoral study programme Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments.

The presentation will take place on Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at 16.00 in InnoRenew CoE, Livade 6a, 6310 Izola, room Tilia and via Zoom on link: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/87972240764

Wednesday, 3 August 2022 Presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation – Lei Han

We invite you to the presentation of the topic of the doctoral dissertation Viscoelastic properties of thermo-hydro-mechanically (THM) densified wood of the student Lei Han, enrolled in the doctoral study programme Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments.

The presentation will take place on Thursday, 11 August 2022 at 10.00 in InnoRenew CoE, Livade 6a, 6310 Izola, room Tilia and via Zoom on link: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/85190103585

Tuesday, 2 August 2022 Deadline extension for the Young Researchers' Training Programme at UP IAM