Who is Alternator?

Alternator is co-financed by:

  • Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU),
  • National Institute of Biology (NIB),
  • Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS),
  • National Institute of Chemistry (KI),
  • Educational Research Institute (PEI),
  • Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing (IHPS),
  • Geological Survey of Slovenia (GeoZS),
  • Institute of Contemporary History (INZ),
  • Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG),
  • Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES),
  • Institute for Ethnic Studies (INV),
  • Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper),
  • Institute of Information Science (IZUM),
  • Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS),
  • Slovenian Research And Innovation Agency (ARIS),
  • Institute for Economic Research (IER),
  • Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana (INST-KRIM),
  • University of Ljubljana (UL),
  • Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (IMFM),
  • Rudolfovo – Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto (Rudolfovo),
  • University of Nova Gorica (UNG). 

Editorial Board

Sabina Autor

Sabina Autor

Editor

She obtained a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and is a research associate at the Educational Research Institute. Her research focuses on social philosophy, questions of knowledge, and the role of education in contemporary society, as well as the education of children with a migrant background. She is also the initiator and co-editor of the Pedagogical Lexicon.

Helena Dobrovoljc

Helena Dobrovoljc

Editor

Is a researcher and the head of the Department for Normative Guidelines at the Fran Ramovš Institute for Slovenian Language, ZRC SAZU. Professionally, she explores the theory of standard language, its norm and codification. Her research is primarily focused on the normative difficulties of various social groups. She is also a moderator at the Language Counselling Service. She is especially interested in linguistic peculiarities that, due to various social factors, deviate from the expectations, norms, system and nature of language. She holds a PhD in the Slovene Theory of Linguistic Naturalness.

Nadja Furlan Štante

Nadja Furlan Štante

Editor

She is a Scientific Fellow at ZRS Koper (Institute for Philosophical Studies) and a Professor in the field of religious studies (FF UM and AlmaMater ISH). Her work primarily focuses on religious feminisms, theological ecofeminisms, interreligious dialogue, and (women's) religious peacebuilding. She is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship for the academic year 2008–2009 (University of California, Berkeley). Between 2010 and 2020, she was a member of the permanent expert body (national coordinator for the field of theology) of the Scientific Council for Humanities at ARRS. Since 2011, she has been a member of the expert body of the Committee for Women in Science – now the Committee for Equal Opportunities at MIZŠ. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the scientific journals Poligrafi and Monitor ISH.

Anton Gradišek

Anton Gradišek

Editor

Is an Assistant Professor. He completed his PhD in physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana in 2012. He spent the years from 2012 to 2013 as a researcher at the Korea Basic Science Institute in South Korea, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Washington University in Saint Louis from 2014 to 2015. He currently works at the Jožef Stefan Institute in the Departments of Intelligent Systems and Solid State Physics. His interests include materials for the hydrogen economy, liquid crystals, applications of artificial intelligence in medicine, and bumblebees.

Arne Hodalič

Arne Hodalič

Photo Editor

Studied biology in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After finishing university, he worked for five years as a professional sailboat skipper and diver and had his own charter company on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. He began taking photographs, mostly of boats, diving and nautical activities. His first trip to India in 1989 changed the arc of his career. The photos he took in India were published in the prestigious Swiss magazine Animan, and, in response, he received more than 20 assignments from the magazine and travelled around the world with his camera. He joined the Gamma Press Agency in Paris and began working for the French press as a member of several photo agencies. In 2008, he became a lecturer in photography and photojournalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana and at the Higher School of Applied Sciences in Ljubljana. He is currently the photo editor of National Geographic Magazine (Slovene edition).

Matej Huš

Matej Huš

Editor

Is a researcher and mentor at the National Institute of Chemistry, specialising in quantum chemistry, theoretical catalysis, and computational simulations. He is also a contributor covering science and technology for RTV Slovenia, the technology magazine Monitor, and the daily newspaper Delo. He works extensively with students: at the Association for Technical Culture of Slovenia, he helps organise science competitions and coaches high-school pupils for international contests. He reads by day and writes by night. When he's in, he whispers to computers. When he's out, he runs fast and far.

Dejan Jontes

Dejan Jontes

Editor

Is a Professor of media studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. His main research interests include the critical analysis of journalism, popular culture, and television studies. He wrote the book Journalism as Culture: Myth and Values (2010) and co-edited the reader Media and Audiences (2012). His recent publications include: "Ridiculing the Working-Class Body in a Post-Socialist Sitcom" (with A. Trdina, Comedy Studies 2018), "Television Audiences in a Multichannel Environment" (Teorija in praksa 2017), and "Technology, Communication, and Monopolies of Knowledge" (with M. Pušnik and R. Bobnič in H. Innis: Pristranost komuniciranja 2018).

Faris Kočan

Faris Kočan

Editor

He is a lecturer at Chair of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. As deputy head of the Center of International Relations, his research focuses on challenges of post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding processes in Southeast Europe, with an emphasis on aspects of everyday life and interethnic relations.

 

Marko Kovač

Marko Kovač

Editor

Is a researcher at the Energy Efficiency Centre at the Jožef Stefan Institute, working on mobility and new technologies. He obtained a PhD in nuclear engineering from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, then worked in the automotive industry for several years. Occasionally, he writes books and popular articles on various types of technologies that affect our world, sometimes using unconventional statistics. He finds both Eurovision and the Champions League amusing, despite having no talent for either. He also likes to read and build things out of Lego bricks.

Matjaž Ličer

Matjaž Ličer

Editor

Obtained his PhD in molecular physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana. He currently works as a physical oceanographer at the Slovenian Environment Agency and at the Marine Biology Station of the National Institute of Biology. He also studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, and obtained a PhD in philosophy from the Graduate School of the Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His translation into Slovenian of Einstein's Relativity – The Special and the General Theory was published as part of the Historia Scientae Collection at ZRC Publishing. He likes sports climbing, freeriding, and film photography.

Martin Pogačar

Martin Pogačar

Editor

Is a researcher at ZRC SAZU's Institute of Culture and Memory Studies. Lest he forget too much, Martin researches memory in digital media environments, but is also interested in the entanglements of technology, memory, and (post)socialism. He asks questions about the uncertainty of the present predicament in the cultures of the past. Late at night he reads science fiction and is intrigued by space sociology. Recent publications include: "Culture of the Past: Digital Connectivity and Dispotentiated Futures" (in: Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition) and Media Archaeologies, Micro-archives and Storytelling: Re-presencing the Past.

Mija Oter Gorenčič

Mija Oter Gorenčič

Editor

Holds a PhD in art history and a Master's degree in Slovenian. She is the head of ZRC SAZU's France Stele Institute of Art History and the President of ZRC SAZU's Scientific Board. She also teaches at the Department of Art History of the University of Maribor. She has won several scholarships (Vienna, Bamberg, Paris, Graz), including the 2020 JESH Scholarship (Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities) endowed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She also received the award of the Slovenian Art History Society. Her field of research is medieval art, in particular medieval architecture, iconography, monastic art, wall paintings, and the artistic patronage of noble families with a particular focus on the Counts of Cilli.

Anja Skapin Subanović

Anja Skapin Subanović

Editor-in-Chief

To better understand the past, she engages with nostalgia; to better understand the future, she watches science fiction. In between, she delves into what it means to think science, in order to gain a deeper understanding of humanity's structure. As the editor-in-chief of Alternator, she does not pretend to understand all scientific languages, but persistently strives to find a common language for everyone. She travels to less-visited lands and seeks stories that take time to unfold.

Urška Vranjek Ošlak

Urška Vranjek Ošlak

Copy Editor (Slovenian language)