Darja Lisjak is a scientific councillor at IJS and a full professor in the field of Nanoscience. He lectures at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and at the University of Nova Gorica. At JSI, she leads the Hybrid and Liquid Ferroic Materials group and, currently, she also leads four research projects, including the Horizon2020 FET-OPEN project MAGNELIQ. She is the vice-president of the Slovenian Chemical Society (SKD).
Her main research interest is the development and understanding of hybrid organic-inorganic materials and nanomaterials. The focus is understanding the influence of the nano size and surface hybridization on the crystalline and electronic structure of nanomaterials and the resulting influence on their properties. She combines synthesis, surface and colloidal chemistry for the controlled preparation of materials, such as ferromagnetic liquids and multifunctional nanoparticles for optical and magneto-electric sensing.
