By young experts, for future experts
The Summer School of Science is organized by an expert team of young scientists and STEM majors, who ensure a high level of quality, as well as a personable touch.
Supervisor
President of the Society for Out-of-Frame Education
Leonardo is a passionate researcher and educator. He graduated Natural Sciences in 2016 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours for excellent examination results. In 2021, he obtained his PhD in nanomagnetism at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where he investigated the physics of permanent magnets used in electric cars. He has published papers in prestigious scientific journals and specializes in researching nanomagnetic structures using transmission electron microscopy.
Apart from being a researcher, Leonardo is an educational consultant. He has worked with over 500 students, helping them score well in A levels, IB and PAT exams, and get accepted to prestigious universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge. He also advises university students on carrying out research for their Bachelor's, Master's or PhD theses.
Leonardo fell in love with S3 while he was a project leader in 2018. He returned in 2019 and 2020 as an organizer, and he currently supervises the activities of S3, especially in designing the program and projects. The main thing that Leonardo appreciates about S3 that it is a safe space for everyone to learn, grow and make friends no matter their background. He cherishes the fact that S3 is an interdisciplinary environment that encourages participants to both develop critical thinking and research skills as well as emotional intelligence.
Organizing team
Laura has always liked asking questions, whether it be about the mundane or the incomprehensible, and maintains that childlike curiosity to this day. She has accumulated a number of different interests, ranging from music to film to nonograms and, of course, science. Her love of science started as a fascination with all things cosmic, mostly due to her outright obsession with Carl Sagan. This passion grew and eventually branched out into other fields. Ultimately, however, her wish to study the universe itself prevailed, which is why she is currently pursuing a degree in physics at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb.
She came to the Summer School of Science as a participant at S3 in 2017 and returned in 2018. She absolutely loved her time there and was eager to come back in the future (in fact, she came back to visit the Summer School several times). She got the opportunity to contribute as a technical assistant in 2020 and is now coming back as an organizer for the third time.
Whenever she can, Laura enjoys playing guitar or listening to music, which she considers indispensable. She also spends her free time drawing, learning new things of various sorts (like piano, languages or info from the rarest of Wikipedia pages), reading more books at a time than she probably should, as well as walking, cycling or ice skating... basically, quite a few things, many of which she has a terrible habit of doing late into the night.
University of Zagreb, Croatia
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Luka has always been a curious and imaginative individual with a great desire to understand everything he encounters. At first, this mainly manifested through his passion for physics and mathematics, but as soon as he discovered computer science and programming, it became his number one preoccupation. He also shaped his education and career around it, enjoying not only learning about it but also teaching others everything he knows. His other interests include photography, architecture and traffic management, which often perfectly fit as applications for his computer science and programming knowledge.
This is his third consequtive year organizing Summer School of Science, although he was never a participant. His science popularization background dates back to high school when he started giving lectures on satellite construction and rocket launching as a part of Croatia’s first satellite project (which launches soon!). He also participates in development of science workshops for high-schoolers and teaches at a private high school.
Luka currently studies computer science at the University of Zagreb and volunteers in several Society for Out-of-Frame Education's projects, which take up much of his daily schedule. However, when possible, he tries to relax by playing board games, billiards or lacrosse.