Education

• BS degree from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department for Automation, University of Ljubljana in 1979
• MS degree from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana in 1982
• PhD degree from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana in 1988
• In 1993 he spent his sabbatical leave at the Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe.
• Assistant professor at University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, 2009 

Employment and management

• 1979-1983 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department for Automation, research assistant
• 1983- Jozef Stefan Institute, Department for Automatics, Biocybernetics and Robotics, senior researcher
• Task leader of NAS EUROShoE EU FTR project 2001-2004
• Project leader of several domestic projects
• Member of the EU FP6 PACO+ Project
• Member of the EU FP7 CONFIDENCE Project

Rewards

• Vatrislav Bedjanic reward for Master thesis, 1982
• Boris Kidric reward for research, 1987
• New Technology Foundation Award for Entetrtainamenet Robotics and Systems,  for most outstanding paper and presentation in IROS 2009, StLouis, 2009
• Best paper award in Intelligent Robotics in ICAR 2017, Hong Kong, 12 July 2017

Research interest

• Robot control
• Autonomous robot learning
• Sensor guided control
• Biomechanical easurements in sport