LASIN - Laboratory of Synergetics

University of Ljubljana | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Anamarija Borštnik Bračič, assist. prof.

position:   teaching assistant
e-mail: anamarija.bracic@fs.uni-lj.si
tel.: +386 1 4771-166

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Research interests

  • dynamics and monitoring of machining processes
  • nonlinear dynamics and chaos
  • signal processing and time series analysis
  • factory automation
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000
  • MBA - Masters in Business Administration, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2002
  • B.Sc. in Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1995
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Fellowship

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Bibliography

Summary of complete personal bibliography: anamarija-bib.pdf

A list of representative personal bibliography:

  • Borštnik Bračić A., Kočevar K., Muševič I., Žumer S. (2003): Capillary forces in a confined isotropic-nematic liquid crystal, Physical Review E, Vol. 68, pp 011708.1 - 011708.9.
  • Kočevar K., Borštnik Bračić A., Muševič I., Žumer S. (2001): Capillary condensation of a nematic liquid crystal observed by force spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 86, pp. 5914-5917.
    Report on article: Physical Review Focus story, 21 june 2001
  • Borštnik A., Stark H., Žumer S. (2000): Temperature-induced flocculation of colloidal particles immersed into the isotropic phase of a nematic liquid crystal. Physical Review E, Vol. 61, pp.2831-2839.
  • Borštnik A., Stark H., Žumer S. (1999): Interaction of spherical particles dispersed in a liquid crystal above the nematic-isotropic phase transition. Physical Review E, Vol. 60, pp. 4210-4218.
  • Borštnik A., Žumer S. (1997): Forces in an inhomogeneously ordered nematic liquid crystal : stable and metastable states. Physical Review E, Vol. 56, pp. 3021-3027.
  • Fung Y. K., Borštnik A., Žumer S., Yang D.-K., Doane J. W. (1997): Pretransitional nematic ordering in liquid crystals with dispersed polymer networks. Physical Review E, Vol.55, pp. 1637-1645.
  • Borštnik Bračić A., Mankoč Borštnik N. (2006) Origin of families of fermions and their mass matrices. Physical Review D, Vol. 74, pp. 073013.1-073013.16.
  • Mankoč Borštnik N., Borštnik A. (1998):  Left and right handedness of fermions and bosons. Jurnal of Physics G,  Vol. 24, pp. 963-977.
  • Borštnik Bračić A., Govekar E., Grabec I. (2007) Modeling the field of laser welding melt pool by RBFNN. Dyn. contin. discrete impuls. syst., Vol. 14/1, pp. 227-231.
  • Borštnik Bračić A., Grabec I., Govekar E. (2009) Modeling spatio-temporal field evolution. Eur. phys. j., B Cond. matter phys., Vol. 69, pp. 529-538.
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Industrial projects

Major projects implemented in collaboration with company Iskra Impuls d.o.o.
  • Fully automated crane in production plant of Daimler-Chrysler in Ludwigsfelde, Germany (2003).
  • Automation of lacquery room installed by Dürr in production plant of BMW for Indonesian market, Indonesia (2000).
  • Wheel balancing production line in production plant of Renault - Revoz, Slovenia (2005) - project leader.
  • Automation of system for thermal treatment of porous concrete buildig blocks in production plant of  Xella, Slovenia (2006) - project leader.

Other interests

Playing with my children, skiing, sailing, playing piano.