Who is Alternator?

Alternator is co-financed by the following partners:

  • 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).

Editorial Board

Sabina Autor

Sabina Autor

Editor

Is an assistant with a Master's Degree at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana and is currently writing her doctoral thesis in philosophy entitled "Transformations of Knowledge and the Legacy of the Enlightenment". The focus of her doctoral research is the question and status of knowledge in contemporary societies. She is also a member of the editorial board of The School Field journal and of the organizational board for the March for Science (Slovenia). She previously collaborated at the I Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, working primarily within the project Workers'-Punks' University (2000-2010) as a co-editor of the Intolerance Monitoring Report (2004-2008) and for Media Watch journal (2003-2008). From 2008 to 2015, she was a member of the editorial board of the journal KINO! for film theory and cinema.

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

Is a professor of religious studies (UM FF and AlmaMater ISH) and lead research fellow at the Science and Research Centre Koper (IFŠ – Institute for Philosophy). Her main interests include religious feminisms, ecofeminist theology, interreligious dialogue, and women’s religious peace-building. She received a Fulbright research grant (Fulbright Visiting Scholar) for the 2008-09 academic year, which she spent at the University of Berkeley. From 2010 to 2020, she was a member of the permanent expert body of the Scientific Research Council for Humanities (National Coordinator for Theology) at ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency). Since 2011, she has been a member of the Commission for Women in Science at the MIZŠ RS (Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia). She is a member of the editorial board 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

Obtained a PhD in physical chemistry and is a researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry. He is a science correspondent for Radiotelevision Slovenia, Delo, Slovenia's largest national daily newspaper, Monitor, the leading computer magazine, and an occasional expert on science and technology related topics for other media. In his spare time, he oversees science competitions for high school pupils and accompanies them to international competitions. After finishing his PhD at the University of Ljubljana, he began to work in chemical engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry and then went on a 18-month postdoc in physics at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden. Since returning home, physics, chemistry, computer science, and journalism have been inextricably linked parts of his life. Motto: Science should not be confined to laboratories.

Dejan Jontes

Dejan Jontes

Editor

Is an Associate 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).

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.

Oto Luthar

Oto Luthar

Editor

Is the director of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a member of the Institute for Culture and Memory Studies. His research interests include the modern history of ideas, the social theory and history of historiography, the philosophy of history, and the cultural history of memory. He is the author/editor of The Land Between: A History of Slovenia, Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits, Post-Communist Historiography Between Democratization and New Politics of History, and The Great War and Memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe.

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.

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.

Andrej Srakar

Andrej Srakar

Editor

Obtained his PhD in economics from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana and is now working on his second PhD in mathematical statistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana. He works at the Institute for Economic Research (IER) in Ljubljana and is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Business where he teaches courses in economics and methodology. His main fields of research are mathematical statistics and probability, econometrics, cultural economics and the economics of health and ageing (SHARE database). He is the joint coordinator of the Junior Section of Slovenian Statistical Society and a coordinator of the international project in statistics called YoungStatS.

Anja Skapin

Anja Skapin

Editor-in-Chief

She works at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the department for the presentation of research results. She is the editor-in-chief of the online journal Alternator. Her research interests are the need for effective communication, writing good stories, and the use of narrative in different areas of human activity.

Urška Vranjek Ošlak

Urška Vranjek Ošlak

Copy Editor (Slovene)
Erica Johnson Debeljak

Erica Johnson Debeljak

Copy Editor (English)