Dr. Zavasnik is an Assistant Professor at the International Postgraduate School Jožef Stefan (since 2020) and senior researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, leader of the joint laboratory “Extreme Energy Materials” between Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Germany) and Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).

He finished his PhD in 2013 in “Investigations of twinning and phase transformation in iron sulphides” and completed his postdoctoral research at Max-Planck-Institute für Eisenforschung (MPIE) in Düsseldorf.

He is an instrumentalist, with expertise in nanomaterials, applied crystallography, analytical transmission and scanning electron microscopy, with a special focus on analytics and in-situ methods.

Dr. Zavasnik authored > 60 SCI papers, and is involved in student training and education process, several research and industrial projects.