Prof. Dr Simon Širca
Full University ProfessorE-mail: Tel: +38614766574 Simon Širca’s scientific work encompasses experimental research of electromagnetic and spin structure of nucleons and light nuclei by using coincidence electron scattering as well as their dynamics, in particular by using polarization observables and spin degrees of freedom. He is also involved in theoretical analyses of electromagnetic and weak excitations of nucleon resonances. Since 2004 he is Head of the program group Structure of Hadronic Systems, and collaborates mostly with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and MAMI (Mainzer Mikrotron). The focus of his pedagogical work are the subjects od modern physics and mathematical physics with emphasis on numerical methods.
Education |  |
- BSc in Pyhics (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 1993)
- MSc in Pyhics (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 1996)
- PhD in Pyhics (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, 1999)
Employment | |
- 1993–1999: young researcher, JSI
- 1999–2004: assistant, Dept of Physics, UL FMP
- 2000–2002: (senior) postdoctoral research associate, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2005–2011: assistant professor, UL FMP
- 2003–2008: research scientist, JSI
- since 2008: senior research scientist, JSI
- 2011-2016: Associate Professor of Physics, UL FMP
- since 2016: Professor of Physics, UL FMP
Field of work | |
- experimental hadronic physics (electron scattering)
- use of quark models of hadrons in the electroweak sector