Urška Lavrenčič Štangar – keynote speaker

Urška Lavrenčič Štangar
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Urška Lavrenčič Štangar began her career at the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, researching sol-gel materials for various electrochemical devices. She was postdoc at Vienna University of Technology with Lise Meitner and Marie Curie fellowships. Then she joined University of Nova Gorica, where she did pioneering work in photocatalysis for environmental applications in Slovenia. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, and leads national research programme “Chemistry for Sustainable Development”. She has published more than 150 articles with over 4000 citations and is editor of Chemical Engineering Journal.