Jure Zupan is a Slovenian physicist and founder of chemomectrics research in Slovenia. He is one of the leading authorities in applications and development of
artificial neural networks in chemistry.

Studies

He studied Physics at the University of Ljubljana and graduated in 1966. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 1972. He did his first research on the magnetic properties of solids at the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (1963–1973).
In 1974 he has joined National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana to work on Computerized Databases, Chemometrics, and Artificial Intelligence. He did his post doctoral research at ETH Zürich (1975) and at NIH, Bethesda (1978).

Work

Since 1985 he is a Full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He was Visiting Professor at the Arizona State University in Tempe, USA (1982), at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Flemish university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has two campuses referred to as Etterbeek and Jette.The university's name is sometimes abbreviated by "VUB" or translated to "Free University of Brussels"...

, Belgium (1988), for 3 consecutive years (each year for three months) at the Technical University Munich, Germany (1990–1992), and at the University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain (1995).

Research

After 1988 his research focused to the field of Artificial Neural Networks. He wrote with Johnny Gasteiger a very successful book “Neural Networks for Chemists”, which received more than 500 citations and was nominated the book of the month in 1993. The book was translated to Chinese and Japanese and was expanded with more practical applications as a second edition under the title Neural Networks and Drug Design. He is now mostly interested in the multi-dimensional data representation and context extraction from large assembles of multi-dimensional data. He is member of the European Academy of Science (Salzburg) and member of the Engineering Academy of Slovenia. He is author and editor of 10 books and monographs and has written more than 200 articles in different journals and books.