Ms. Špela Stres
Director, Innovation and Technology Transfer Center for Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Ms. Špela Stres is the Director of Innovation and Technology Transfer Center for Jožef Stefan Institute and a visiting lecturer at University of Ljubljana. She started her career in research at Jožef Stefan Institute and continued as a Research Associate at Deutsches Elektronen Synchroton (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. After an engagement in the industry she returned to Jožef Stefan Institute as a Senior Researcher. She managed the Communication and TechTransfer Unit, coordinated Enterprise Europe Network and supervised creation of several spinout companies in the field of material science and ICT. She was the first president of Slovene Technology Transfer Association. She served as a Board Member of CERN Technology Transfer Network and as a Vice President of ASTPProton, Knowledge Transfer Europe, European Association of Science and Technology Professionals. She has vast experience in European Commission programs. She is a European Research Council Evaluator and an Advisory Group Member for The Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology and The Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. She is Member of the high-level 10MG of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism at the United Nations, New York, USA.