Matjaž Perc
Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maribor in 2006. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Maribor, staff researcher at the Community Healthcare Center Dr. Adolf Drolc Maribor, Adjunct Professor at Kyung Hee University and Korea University, and External faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. He is a member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and among top 1% most cited physicists according to 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Clarivate Analytics data. He is also the 2015 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society, and the 2017 USERN Laureate. In 2018 he received the Zois Award, which is the highest national research award in Slovenia. In 2019 he became Fellow of the American Physical Society. Since 2021 he is Vice-Dean of Natural Sciences at the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg.
