Dr. Andrej Brodnik receives the Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Andrej Brodnik receives the Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Andrej Brodnik, a UP employee working at UP IAM and UP Famnit, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 26th Information Society Multi-Conference. The conference took place at the Jozef Stefan Institute from 10 to 13 October and concluded with an award ceremony.

Andrej Brodnik was awarded for his outstanding lifetime contribution to the development and promotion of the information society. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada, has been active in professional associations, especially ACM Slovenia, and has been instrumental in promoting computer science in Slovenia, especially in the context of teaching in secondary and primary schools and in competitions for secondary school students. His main research areas are concise data structures, omnipresent computing and the teaching of computing and informatics.

His contribution to the establishment of the University of Primorska, where he was Vice-Rector for Education from 2003 to 2007, and is now a member of the UP Senate, is significant. During his professional career he has received numerous international and national awards and prizes, including the Innovation Cup in Sweden, the IBM Faculty Award, the Golden Plaques of the UL and the UP, and the Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia.

We would like to congratulate Dr. Andrej Brodnik and wish him many more successes!

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