I am a PhD student from Slovenia studying the balance between inflammatory and anti-inflammatory immune cells. As a part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network INsTRuCT, I focus on metabolic and mitochondrial functions of myeloid cells used as tolerogenic cell therapies.

I hold a Bachelor in Chemistry degree from the University of Ljubljana which I finished with a thesis on Zika virus, an emerging pandemic at that time. Afterwards, wanting to dive into the biomedical field, I became a Master in Biomedical Research at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona with a thesis on colorectal cancer at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid. I continued my studies and graduated also with a Master in Biochemistry from the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on novel CAR-T cells at the National Institute of Chemistry.

My interests include immunometabolism, single-cell technologies and mitochondrial control of the immune response. Outside of the lab, I like to dance, run and travel.