Petnica Summer Institute

Organizers

Mateja Bošković

Mateja is a PhD student of Astroparticle Physics at SISSA, Trieste. He is working on gravitational probes of ultra-light bosons. He was the Head of the Department of Astronomy in Petnica from 2015 to 2017 and contributed to the organization of the school from 2022.

Institution: SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Email: mboskovi (at) sissa.it

Ivan Milić

Ivan is a Tenure-Track Scientist at Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Astronomy, University of Belgrade. His main interests are astrophysical spectropolarimetry and numerical radiative transfer. He was the Head of the Department of Astronomy in Petnica from 2010 to 2012 and is one of the organizers of the school from 2013.

Institution: KIS, Freiburg, Germany; University of Belgrade, Serbia

Email: ivan_milic (at) matf.bg.ac.rs

Stanislav Milošević

Stanislav is an Assistant at the Department of Astronomy, University of Belgrade. His main research interests are in galaxy formation and evolution. Stanislav joined PSI as one of the organizers in 2019 and was the Head of the Department of Astronomy in Petnica from 2020 to 2021.

Institution: University of Belgrade, Serbia

Email: stanislav (at) matf.bg.ac.rs

Andrej Obuljen

Andrej is a postdoc at the Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich, working on large-scale structure and 21cm cosmology. He was the Head of the Department of Astronomy in Petnica from 2013 to 2014 and joined PSI as one of the organizers in 2015.

Institution: University of Zurich, Switzerland

Email: andrej.obuljen (at) uzh.ch

Marko Simonović

Marko is a researcher at the Department of Theoretical Physics in CERN, working on theoretical cosmology. He has been involved in the astronomy program of Petnica Science Center as a participant, lecturer and supervisor since 2001 and contributed to the organization of the school from 2013.

Institution: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Email: marko.simonovic (at) cern.ch

Gabrijela Zaharijaš

Gabrijela is an Associate Professor at Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica. She is working on dark matter detection. Her interests cover astroparticle physics, physics beyond the Standard Model and cosmology. Gabrijela contributed to the school organization from the beginning in 2013.

Institution: University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

Email: gabrijela.zaharijas (at) ung.si

Friends of PSI

Nikola Božić

As a Coordinator for International Activities and later a Program Director of PSC, Nikola contributed to the organization of schools from 2013 to 2019 and played a key role in establishing PSI as one of the regular PSC programs.

Jelena Gledić

As the present PSC Program Director, Jelena helped with the school organization from 2022.

Gabriele Trevisan

Designed and maintained the PSI website and lectured in the first edition of PSI in 2013.