Martin Milanic received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2007. After a postdoctoral stay at Bielefeld University, he joined the University of Primorska in Slovenia, where he designed a higher-level course on graph algorithms and has been teaching various courses related to discrete mathematics. His main areas of research are structural and algorithmic graph theory. He has written over 80 papers (with over 100 coauthors). In 2017 he was awarded with Zois Recognition, the Slovenian national award for important achievements in science.