Education

• B.Sc. in geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009.
• Ph.D. in spatial planning, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 2022.

Research fields

• spatial planning, participatory planning and governance, regional development
• economic geography – urban transformation, transport geography (public passenger traffic)

Selected presentations and lectures

• Sustainable mobility solutions for visiting protected areas in Slovenia. Lecture at the Regional Studies Association conference for Central and Eastern Europe 2024: Dynamically changing regions in an ever-changing world. September 11-13, 2024. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• The role of industrial heritage in the transformation of Trbovlje, Slovenia: Context-embedded qualitative research design. Lecture at the Regional Studies Association annual conference 2023. Transforming regions: policies and planning for people and places. June 14-17, 2023. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• An asset or an obstacle? Investigating the role of intangible sociocultural (pre-)conditions in the transformation of older industrial regions (Bole, David ; Goluža, Maruša ; Kozina, Jani). Lecture at the RSA CEE conference Bridging old and new divides - global dynamics and regional transformations: 2022. September 14–17, 2022 Leipzig, Germany.
• Regionalni razvoj kot argument za načrtovanje državne prometne infrastrukture: vzroki za konflikte na primeru severnega dela tretje razvojne osi. Mesec prostora na Oddelku za geografijo FF UL: Konflikti na podeželju. Kako konflikti na podeželju spodbujajo iskanje rešitev in razvoj? Ljubljana, 19. 10. 2022.
• Contested motorway planning: confronting inclusionary practice and its impact on the legitimacy of decision-making process in Slovenia. Lecture at the AESOP conference Adapting Planning: Rethinking the Planning Practices, Gdansk, 13. 7. 2021, spletni dogodek.
• Dnevne migracije in možnosti uporabe javnega potniškega prometa med Slovenj Gradcem, Velenjem, Celjem in Ljubljano. Lecture at the 3rd regional conference Regijski izzivi dnevne mobilnosti – hitre avtobusne linije, Velenje, 30. 9. 2020.
• New road wanted (but not in my backyard). Lecture at the RGS IBG conference for doctoral students, Manchester, United Kindgdom, April 26, 2019.
• Conflicts in planning major infrastructure projects: what causes them and why are they so persistent? Lecture at the annual AESOP congress, Göteborg, Sweden, July 11, 2018.

Other activities

• member of editorial board of scientific journal Acta geographica Slovenica
• member of the commission for regional and spatial planning at the Geographical Societies of Slovenia
• member of editorial board of Regional Development book series (Slo. Regionalni razvoj)
• Co-editor of Regional development book series (Slo. Regionalni razvoj)
• member of the organisational board for Slovenian regional days symposium
• assistant professor at postgraduate school ZRC SAZU