Prof. dr. Mateja Erdani Kreft is a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine. Her research and pedagogical work is focused on the field of cell biology, human genetics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
In the field of microscopy, her expertise is in freeze-fracture immunolabelling and correlative microscopy.
She leads and participates in national and international research projects as well as projects with the industry, especially in the field of design, implementation and analysis of potential new drugs on biomimetic models in vitro, and has patents in this field.
She was a visiting scientist at the Department of Cell Biology and Oncology of the Mario Negri Sud Institute in Italy, at the Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the University of York, United Kingdom, and at the Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis, University of Munster, Germany.