Short Bio:
Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe, Scientific Advisor at the Department for Nanostructured Materials at Jožef Stefan Institute, was until 2018 for 16 years acting as a Head of this department. She is a full professor at the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan” and a Slovenian Academy of Engineering member.
She initiated rare-earth magnet research activities in Slovenia. She was the coordinator of the European project “Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Option” - ROMEO (FP7-NMP) and “A novel circular economy for sustainable RE-based magnets« - MaXycle (ERA-MIN).
She was 20 years the Leader of the National Research Programme “Nanostructured Materials,” and until 2017, the Slovene director of The International Associated Laboratory between CNRS, Nancy, France and Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is also a member of the Governing Board of eseia (European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance), the International Postgraduate School “Jožef Stefan,” and the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Leoben.
Job related skills: processing of intermetallic alloys including rare-earth transition-metal, permanent magnets, hydrogen-storage materials, quasicrystals, magnetocaloric materials, complex metallic alloys, influence of magnetic field in crystallization, application of RETM permanent magnets in ecology, effect on processing on microstructure and physical properties. Applied research has included the development and large-scale production of a large variety of magnetic materials, and in strong collaboration with industry; it has involved product development, quality control and troubleshooting at the factory-floor level.
In 2019 Prof. Dr. Spomenka Kobe received the prestigious Fray International Sustainability Award for “Leadership in developing new technologies that contribute to global sustainable development in the environment, economy, and social points of view.” In her honor, one of the Symposia in the frame of SIPS 2019 (Sustainable Processing Summit & Exhibition) was named “Kobe International Symposium on Science of Innovative and Sustainable Alloys and Magnets.”
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