CV

Education

University of California, Berkeley, USA — Ph.D., Physics
Aug 2021–May 2026 (expected)
Thesis advisor: Uroš Seljak
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland — M.Sc., Physics
Sep 2019–May 2021
Thesis advisors: Robert Brandenberger and Lavinia Heisenberg
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia — B.Sc., Physics
Oct 2016–Aug 2019
Thesis advisor: Miha Ravnik

Heising–Simons Foundation Fellowship — Developing probabilistic Kepler exoplanet catalog (2022–2026)
U.S. Department of Energy Grant — Enable research for data-intensive machine learning and analysis (2023–2026)
Ad futura Fellowship — Tuition and living expenses for talented Slovene students abroad (2019–2021)
ASEF Fellowship — Research with Prof. Uroš Seljak, UC Berkeley (2018)
Zois Fellowship — Living expenses for talented students (2012–2019)

Honorable Mention, Gravity Research Foundation Essay (2021)
Graduation with Distinction, ETH Zürich (High GPA) (2021)
Dean’s Prize, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (2017, 2018, 2019)
Bronze medals at International Olympiads
- Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), India (2016)
- Physics (IPhO), Switzerland (2016)
Absolute winner at Slovene national competitions
- Physics (2016)
- Astronomy (2015, 2016)

Research mentor
- Emma Yu, Physics Innovators Initiative (undergraduate student) — 2025
- Levi Galvan, MPS Scholars Research Fund (undergraduate student) — 2024
- Zihao Wu (undergraduate student) — 2023–2024
Conference organizer
- From Perturbation Theory to AI, Split, Croatia — 2024
- Cosmology, Vipolže, Slovenia — 2022
Reviewer
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) — 2025
- European Physical Journal C — 2023
Exam designer — National high-school physics competitions, Slovenia (2017–2025)
Tutor for undergraduate physics students — ETH Zürich & University of Ljubljana (2016–2021)