Founder · Researcher · Mentor
I build tools for people who work with knowledge, and I study how impact gets funded.
Founder of ScAIentist®. PhD student of entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, and young researcher at the Institute for Economic Research.
What I do now
ScAIentist®
Founder, since 2023
A Ljubljana company building focused tools for students, researchers and institutions, plus the services to put them to work. I lead business development, sales and the products, from pricing to deciding what goes live.
Doctoral research
SEB UL and IER
I research early relationships between impact investors and founders: which signals and frames each side reads, and how that shapes the deal.
Teaching
Teaching assistant, SEB UL
I take part in entrepreneurship courses with guest lectures on impact, digital tools and building a company.
Mentoring
Impact Hub Slovenija · Mentor The Young
I mentor young founders in the Social Impact Award and Impact Launchpad programmes, and in Mentor The Young in Serbia.
What I have built
With the ScAIentist® team, from the first prototype to production.
TechCheck
Formatting and citation review for final theses, for students and universities.
Cite
Citations that follow your university's style guide.
SciComic
Research papers translated into science comics and visual abstracts.
SciBLIND
Online experiments, surveys and vignette studies, run remotely and without bias.
Lumen
A calm dashboard for a doctorate. I built it for my own PhD first.
Habilis
Research-title eligibility calculated from SICRIS. It started as NazivIER for the Institute for Economic Research.
Rounds
Website care for the people who build websites. Clients point at what to change, the developer reviews one pull request.
Beyond ScAIentist®
KASE
Co-founder, with Isidora Radičević
A machine that prints a custom phone case on the spot. My first business with a physical product, locations and stock.
Institute RAISED
Co-founder and advisor
A non-profit institute for research, inclusive science and education with digital tools. It carries the public-interest side of our work.
Research
My doctorate sits between entrepreneurship and impact investing. I want to know what happens in the first conversations between an investor and a founder who both say they care about impact.
The role of impact signals and frames in dyadic early-stage impact investing relationships
- Programme
- Economics and Business (Entrepreneurship), School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana
- Mentors
- Asst. Prof. Kaja Primc (IER) and Prof. Alenka Slavec Gomezel (SEB UL)
- Methods
- Qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and dyadic interviews
- Status
- Proposal defended in March 2026
Talks and workshops
Recent talks, mostly in Slovene.
A social-science doctorate powered by vibe coding
Pre:plet festival, School of Economics and Business · 22 Sep 2026
How I built the tool that runs my PhD, and what it taught me about checking what AI writes.
Between code and context: AI, language and cultural identity
Skupni prostor kulture, ZRC SAZU · 3 Oct 2026
Why large language models speak our languages unevenly, and what that means for how young people talk.
Innovations with social impact
Rector's Award UL, Ljubljana University Incubator · 30 Sep 2026
An online workshop on funding, legal forms and values for teams in the social-impact category.
Presence, self-presentation and the pitch
LiLaLab incubator, Impact Hub · 24 Sep 2026
A three-hour workshop for young women founders, ending with a two-minute pitch from each of them.
Recognition
With my team I have received two awards for social impact in two different countries and the University of Ljubljana Rector's Award for one of the best social innovations. EU-Startups listed ScAIentist® among Slovenian startups to watch.
Get in touch
For a product, a project, a talk or a mentoring session, write to me or book a time.