Director:

dr. Romana Martinčič

Director-Expert:

dr. Andrej Golle

Acting Principals and Principals of organisational units and quality assurance representative:

The leading positions at the institute, where management represents the predominant share of duties, are: principles of the organisational units of the institute and quality assurance representative.

Acting Principals and Principals of the organisational units:

dr. Andrej Golle, principal of the Center for Medical Microbiology

dr. Brigita Tepuš, principal of the Centre for Environment and Health

Katja Zelenik, principal of the Centre for Microbiological Analysis of Food, Water and other Environmental Samples

dr. Boštjan Križanec, principal of the Centre for Chemical Analysis of Food, Water and Other Environmental Samples

Andrej Golmajer, principal of the Official Control Laboratory at NLZOH

Melita Kores, principal of Corporate Services

mag. Jasna Koglot, quality assurance representative at the institute

In addition to the director of the institute, the bodies of the institute are the Institute Council and the Institute Expert Council.

The Institute Council

functions as the institute’s supervisory board. It consists of 7 members, of whom 4 are the representatives of the founder, one is the representative of the public employees at the institute, and two are the representatives of users. The term of office for the members of the Institute Council is 4 years. New members of the Institute Council were appointed in 2023, and their term of office will run until 2027.

• mag. Simona Potočnik, representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, President of the Council
• dr. Mojca Durjava, employee representative at NLZOH, Deputy President of the Council
• Metka Petek Uhan, representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia
• prof. dr. Ivan Eržen, representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia
• doc. dr. Bruno Nikolić, representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia
• mag. Alenka Sintič, representative of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia
• mag. Klara Mihaldinec, representative of the Slovenian Consumers’ Association

The Institute Expert Council

is a collegiate expert body that plans, discusses, and directs the expert activities of the institute. The Expert Council consists of the director, quality assurance representative, and the principals of the organisational units. The director of the institute may also invite other persons for expert assistance for dealing with individual professional issues.