Mentor of the year is a nationwide contest awarded to outstanding scientists and mentors of PhD students and postdoc researchers. Among 27 nominees the Ru-team Iztok Turel has made it into the ‘Top 5’ final stage of the Mentor of the year 2015 contest together with esteemed collegues (photo link)

• dr. Štefan Bojnec (Faculty of management of the University of Primorska, Koper),
• dr. Bogdan Filipič (Dept. of Intelligent Systems, Institute Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana),
• dr. Gregor Serša (Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana) and
• dr. Barbara Simončič (Chair of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana).

Congratulations to the winner prof. dr. Barbara Simončič and all fellow nominees.

Check out the photos of the event.