Marko Novinec, PhD (PI). Marko obtained his diploma at UL FCCT in 2004. He did his PhD research at the Jozef Stefan Institute and obtained his PhD degree in Biomedicine at UL Medical Faculty in 2008. He was a postdoc in the lab of Antonio Baici at the University of Zurich (2009-10) and then returned to UL FCCT. He obtained his assistant professorship in 2013 and associate professorship in 2018. He is a member of program group “Advanced organic synthesis and catalysis” led by Prof. Jurij Svete.

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Ana Obaha (PhD student). Ana joined the group as a bachelor student of Biochemistry in 2018. She obtained her bachelor degree in 2019 and afterwards her masters’ degree in Biochemistry in 2021. She is now aiming to produce oligomeric variants of monomeric cysteine peptidases.

Milena Stojkovska (PhD student). Milena obtained her bachelor degree in Applied Chemistry at the Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (North Macedonia) in 2017. She joined the group as a masters’ student of Biochemistry in 2018 and obtained her masters’ degree in 2021. Her current goal is to engineer cooperativity into DPPI.

Zala Perko (PhD student – young researcher). Zala joined the group as a bachelor student of Biochemistry in 2022. She obtained her bachelor degree in 2023 and her master degree in 2025. As a young researcher in program group P1-0179, she is now focusing on engineering novel PETases with superior properties to battle the threat of plastic waste.