News

As of June 30, 2025, the O2 Department of the Jožef Stefan Institute has successfully obtained two new Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs), bringing the total number of published CMCs to 32.

At the ARIS Day event held on 12 November, awards were presented for the most outstanding scientific achievements of the past year. Among the 2025 Excellent in Science laureates, the Human Biomonitoring Group was once again recognized—marking the fourth consecutive year the group has received this prestigious distinction.

Researchers from the Department of Environmental Sciences — dr. Jan Gačnik, dr. Klara Žagar and dr. Polona Vreča — together with the collaborators, have published a new article in Environmental Research.

You are kindly invited to attend the upcoming O2 Seminar. Dr. Oleg Travnikov will present his work on atmospheric modelling under the O2 department.

Representatives of the Department of Environmental Sciences (O-2) took part in the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury, held in Geneva from 3 to 7 November 2025 (www.mercuryconvention.org)

You are kindly invited to attend the inaugural lecture by dr. Žiga Tkalec titled: Decoding the Metabolome and the Exposome: Integrative Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Biomarker Discovery

From October 6 to 7, the O2 team gathered at Grmovškov dom, Kope, for our annual Strategic Days — two days dedicated to shaping our future together, strengthening connections, and enjoying some well-deserved fun in the mountains.

We are proud to announce that Dr. Polona Vreča from the Department of Environmental Sciences,  is one of the co-authors of a newly published review article in the prestigious journal Reviews of Geophysics (Impact Factor 25.2).

We cordially invite you to the inaugural lecture by dr. Anja Stajnko titled: Human Exposure to Chemicals: exposure determinants, gene–environment interactions, and health impacts.

Join us for the O2 Seminar on 15 October 2025 at 1 PM in the O2 Lecture Room and online. Our young researchers will present their work, followed by Dr. Polona Vreča, who will share highlights from the COST Action WATSON project.

The Department of Environmental Sciences is currently hosting the PARC Training Course on Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) in Human Biomonitoring.

Gornja Radgona, Slovenia — The ecological mobile laboratory ELME was a proud participant at the 10th International Fair for Defense, Security, Protection and Rescue – SOBRA, held from 25 to 27 September 2025 at the Pomurski Sejem grounds in Gornja Radgona.