Professor Emeritus, Dr., Dr. Hab. Causa, Radovan Stanislav Pejovnik

He was born on May 4, 1946, completed general secondary education at Gimnazija Celje in 1964, graduated (B.Sc.), Master (M.Sc.)  and Doctoral degree (Dr.) at the University of Ljubljana. He was elected as Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana in 1989. His first employment was at the Institute »Jozef Stefan«, Department for Ceramics. In 1982, at the age of 36, he became the Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, leading the institute out of a profound crisis to the scientific institution of the relevant scientific importance. He was a Visiting Professor in the USA (North Carolina State University) and in Austria (Technische Universitaet Graz). He was elected Dean of the UL Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology and was from 2009 to 2013  the Rector of the University of Ljubljana. He was State Secretary for Higher Education in the Government of R Slovenia in years 2000 – 2003 and Member of National Council of Republic of Slovenia in years 2013 – 2017.

In his personal bibliography, Prof. Dr. Pejovnik compiles over 200 scientific (reviewed) publications, from which there are more than 100 articles in eminent international jornals with high SCI.

He  was invited to give lectures all around the globe. He is a winner of many awards and prizes, like: the Boris Kidrič Fund award for inventions, the Boris Kidrič Fund award for publications on sintering in the presence of  liquid phase, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in science, President of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering, etc..

He is a popular teacher to his students, an excellent manager and a most agreeable person.