Prof. Julijana Kristl

Biography

 Professor Julijana Kristl PhD, born in 1953, is from Ljubljana. She holds a PhD in pharmaceutical science. In 1977 she was employed by the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Ljubljana. She continued her studies in the pharmaceutical industry at the University of Geneva and elsewhere. She conducts research, gives lectures on all three cycles of university education, heads several commissions and committees and participates in them. Her research work focuses on modern active substance delivery systems, nanotechnology, biomaterials and biomedical evaluation. She is the author of more than 150 articles in renowned international journals and three patents. She has been a guest lecturer at the universities in Lyon, Berlin, Bonn, Pisa, Cagliari and elsewhere.   She has held a range of leadership and organisational positions including Vice-Dean (1991-1995), the Head of the Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology, for two terms as the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana (1999–2003), two terms as the Vice-Rector at the University of Ljubljana (2005–2013) and since June 2014 the President of the Management Committee of the Faculty of Pharmacy. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, USA, Controlled Release Society, USA, Association de pharmacie galenique industrielle, France and other associations and editorial boards of the Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology in European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. She is a peer reviewer for more than 30 international scientific journals with an impact factor ranking. Due to her wide recognition and renown in the scientific community, she frequently evaluates doctoral dissertations and research projects at foreign universities and agencies.   Her expertise covers planning, development and assessment of medicinal products, and she also has experience in obtaining marketing authorisations.

Research Interest

 pharmaceutical science.