Avrelija Cencič

Avrelija Cencič
Born	October 19, 1964 (1964-10-19) (age 47) Maribor, Slovenia
Residence	Slovenia
Citizenship	Slovene
Nationality	Slovene
Fields	Biochemistry, Immunology, Biotechnology
Institutions	University of Maribor

Avrelija Cencič (pronounced Cen•cich) (born October 10, 1964) is an award-winning Slovenian university professor, researcher, manager and educator in health and life sciences.

Education and training

In 2000 she made her PhD (with 1st class honours) from Biochemistry and Molecular biology of leukocytic and trophoblastic interferon gamma participating with University of Paris XI, Orsay, France and University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Slovenia (these en co-tutelle).^[1]

Currently she is employed as the Chair of Dept. of Biochemistry at the Medical Faculty and Chair of Dept. of Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Agriculture and she is a Vice dean for research and was Vice dean for International Relations at the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Maribor

Multi language skills including English, German, French and Croatian.

1987 Award of the University of Maribor; for the outstanding Student research work.
1989 Krka award; for the second best pharmaceutically interesting Student research work.
1990 Award of the University of Maribor; for the best Student research work (part of the Graduation Thesis work).
2008 Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques

Slovenian society of microbiologists (since 1989),(A board member since 2002),
Slovenian society of biochemists (since 2005)
Federation of European Microbiological societies (since 1996),
International society of Interferon and Cytokine research (since 1993),
American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS (since 2001).
CFME-ACTIM (Agence pour la Promotion Internationale des Technologies et des Enterprises Francaises) in Slovenia, since 1998 (A board member between 1998–2002),
Society of University professors of the University of Maribor (since 1996)
Society of Slovenian - Scottish friendship (since 1999).
Eursafe (since 2001),
European federation of Biotechnology (since 2002).
ALTEX (since 2006)

2004 onwards: A member of national committee for GMO.
2004 onwards: A president of national committee for Biotechnology at RIC
2005 onwards: An expert in ERA-ARD project
2005 onwards: INTAS evaluator
2006 onwards: A member of national committee for awarding the best research work "Zois award" in Slovenia
2006 onwards: COST programme (expert in Food and Technology)
2008 onwards: EFSA expert