6 Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Name

Vito Šimonka

Address

Argentinierstraße 16/3/44, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Nationality

Slovenian

Date of Birth

April 18, 1991

Place of Birth

Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Academic Career and Positions

since 10/2015

Doctoral Student
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Selberherr
Institute for Microelectronics,
TU Wien, Austria

since 08/2015

Research Assistant
Christian Doppler Laboratory for High Performance TCAD
Institute for Microelectronics,
TU Wien, Austria

07/2015

Master’s Degree in Physics
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matjaž Perc
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Slovenia

10/2013 - 10/2015

Student Research Assistant
European Social Fund project
University of Maribor, Slovenia

09/2012

Bachelors’s Degree in Physics
Supervisors: Doc. Dr. Aleš Fajmut and
Prof. Dr. Milan Brumen
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Slovenia

06/2012 - 09/2012

Internship
FMC, sistemski integrator d.o.o., Slovenia

Professional Training

11/2016

VSC Training Course: Shared Memory Parallelization
with OpenMP, Vienna, Austria

09/2016

Dresden Microelectronics Academy 2016,
Dresden, Germany

04/2016

VSC Training Course: Efficient Parallel Applications
using Intel developer tools, Vienna, Austria

07/2013 - 09/2013

PRACE Summer of High Performance Computing,
Barcelona, Spain

10/2013

Challenge Future Summit, Maribor, Slovenia

11/2012

PoliMaT Academy TalentCamp, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Awards

01/2017

Rectors Award
University of Maribor, Slovenia

05/2016

Best Master’s Thesis in the Field of Science and Technology
Educational Fundation of Pomurje, Slovenia

12/2015

Diploma Magna Cum Laude
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Slovenia

09/2015

Award for Excellent Research Work
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Slovenia

05/2015

The Best Student of University of Maribor
University of Maribor, Slovenia

12/2013

Summer of HPC Ambassador Award
PRACE, Spain

10/2012 - 10/2015

Zois Scholarship
Public Fund of Slovenia for Excellence, Slovenia