Asst. Prof. Matjaž Gomilšek
Scientific Associate
matjaz.gomilsek@ijs.si
matjaz.gomilsek@fmf.uni-lj.si
room: M104
t: +386 1 477 3973
Research interests
Themes: ab initio calculations, quantum muon and nuclear effects, frustration and quantum spin liquids, topology and skyrmions, percolation, chaos theory
Experiment: muon spectroscopy (μSR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron spin resonance (ESR), elastic and inelastic neutron scattering (INS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), resonant elastic X-ray scattering (REXS), torque magnetometry
Theory: ab initio density functional theory (DFT) and path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), exact diagonalization (ED) in spin systems, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of percolation and chaos
Laboratories: Laboratory for Numerical Physics (head), Laboratory for Measurements at Large-Scale User Facilities (member)
Born: 3rd November 1987, Maribor, Slovenia
Education:
- 2018: PhD from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. PhD thesis “Quantum Spin Liquids on Geometrically Frustrated Kagome Lattices“, advisor Prof. Dr. Andrej Zorko.
- 2013: BSc from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. BSc thesis “Time Irreversible Billiards“, advisor Prof. Dr. Tomaž Prosen.
Positions:
- 2023–present: Scientific Associate at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2023–present: Assistant Professor for Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2021–2023: Teaching Assistant for Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2019–2023: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 2018–2019: Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Physics, Durham University, United Kingdom.
- 2013–2018: Young Researcher (PhD candidate) at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Awards:
- 2022: Special Commendation for Young Higher Education Teachers and Staff for outstanding teaching and research achievements, University of Ljubljana.
- 2020: Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis.
- 2014: Best talk award at the ISIS Muon Spectroscopy Training School.
- 2013: Faculty Prešeren Award for an outstanding BSc thesis.
- 2009: 1st place at the Slovenian ACM-ICPC University Programming Marathon.
- 2008: Slovenian national team at the ACM Central European Programming Contest.
- 2008: Dean’s award for outstanding undergraduate academic performance.
- 2006: Bronze Medal at the 18th International Olympiad in Informatics.
- 2006: Honourable mention at the 27th International Physics Olympiad.
- 2005: Honourable mention at the 26th International Physics Olympiad.
- 2005: Competed at the 17th International Olympiad in Informatics.
- 2024–present: Head of the Laboratory for Numerical Physics at the Condensed Matter Physics F5 department, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Project leader (as PI):
- 2024–2026: Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) ERC complementary research project N1-0356 “Quantum effects of light particles in materials”.
- 2023–2026: Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) research project J1-50012 “Entangled and delocalized states of muons and nuclei”.
- 2019–2021: Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) research project Z1-1852 “Frustrated skyrmions studied by nuclear magnetic resonance”.
- 2015: Ad futura scholarship from the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund, which funded PhD research work at Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France.
Equipment grants (as PI):
- 2024: Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) research equipment grant “Establishing a computing cluster for ab initio simulations of quantum and functional materials”. Seven compute nodes for the Laboratory for Numerical Physics.
Organization of scientific meetings:
- 2025: Physics in Ljubljana 2025 summer school for BSc and MSc students of physics (to be held in June/July 2025).
- 2024: Physics in Ljubljana 2024 summer school for BSc and MSc students of physics (34 international participants).
- 2023: Physics in Ljubljana 2023 summer school for BSc and MSc students of physics (38 international participants).
- 2022: Physics in Ljubljana 2022 summer school for BSc and MSc students of physics (30 international participants).
Physics (uni) at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana
- Povzetek teorije iz vaj (Theoretical summary), 23. 8. 2022
Classical physics (uni) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana