FERI

Awards for outstanding academic work in the field of electro energetics and industrial automation are awarded since 1970. Since 2009 the awards are granted under the sponsorship of the Slovenian Electric Power Engineers Association CIGRE-CIRED and in cooperation with both Slovenian electro technical faculties - Faculty for Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (UL FE) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (UM FERI), University of Maribor. One of the faculties is holding the event every alternate year and this year, we had the privilege to organize it.

Including year 2016 there have been granted 288 awards - of which 162 winners from Ljubljana's Faculty for Electrical Engineering, 61 from our faculty (FERI Maribor) and 65 from other universities. They were awarded 54 PhDs, 90 scientific theses and 144 dissertations. Most of the winners are now prominent researchers, university professors and experts of international standing in the European and international professional associations.

The main speakers of this year's event were Rector of the University of Maribor prof. dr. Igor Tičar, Dean of UM FERI prof. dr. Borut Žalik, Vice Dean for financial affairs and quality UL FE assoc. prof. dr. David Nedeljković and Chairman of the awards, dr. Zvonko Toroš.

From 9 received applications the commission selected 4 winners:

- award for the doctoral thesis: dr. Klemen Stopar from UM FERI
- award for scientific thesis: mag. Borut Prašnikar from UL FE
- two awards for Master's dissertations: Gregor Černe for UL FE and Andrej Mohar form UM FERI

Highlights from ceremony can be found in the gallery: https://feri.um.si/fotogalerija/podelitev-bedjanicevih-nagrad/

She was born on 7th of December 1985 in Ptuj. During her studies at FERI she has gained practical experience as a moderator on different events and worked on a commercial radio station. In 2007 she became a part of Radio Maribor's show called "Mladi mladim" (Youth to Youth) and also a collaborator of Radio Slovenia International. She was also co-leader of musical radio show called "V dobri družbi" (In good comany).

Congratulations!