dr. Miha Mraz


Miha Mraz is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science and a head of Computational Biology Group at the same faculty. He received his BSc, MSc and PhD degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana in 1992, 1995 and 2000. He is in charge of several courses at the faculty, i.e. Unconventional Processing Methods, Computer Networks Modelling and System Reliability and Performance. He is a member of the Journal of Synthetic Biology editorial board.

research interests

  • unconventional computing
  • information processing with synthetic biological systems
  • QCA structures
  • fuzzy logic

education and awards

  • coauthor of one of the best 10 research achievements of the University of Ljubljana in 2017 (for the work Large-scale computational models of liver metabolism: how far from the clinics)
  • advisor to the computational part of the Slovenian iGEM 2016 team - Best foundational advance prize at the iGEM World Championship (2016)
  • one of the mentors to the Slovenian iGEM 2012 team - 1.runner up at iGEM World Championship 2012
  • one of the mentors to the Slovenian iGEM 2010 team - Grand Prize winners at iGEM World Championship 2010
  • PhD from computer science (2000)
  • MSc from computer science (1995)
  • BSc from computer science (1992)

PhD students

  • Lidija Stanovnik: Maximal non-overlapping codes as DNA-based storage addresses
  • Jure Bordon: Modelling simple biological switching systems using fuzzy logic and extended Petri nets

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