Jurij Svete studied chemistry at the University of Ljubljana where he received his PhD in chemistry in 1990 under supervision of Professor Branko Stanovnik. He continued to work as a researcher with the group of Professor Stanovnik. In 1997 he spent one year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, working with Professor Volker Jäger on the synthesis of iminopolyols from furan-nitrile oxide cycloadducts. In 1996, he became an Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor in 2001, and a Full Professor in 2006. His research interest involves fundamental and applied organic synthesis with emphasis on development of novel reagents and synthetic methods, heterocyclic synthesis, combinatorial synthesis, stereoselective synthesis, 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions, and chemistry of enaminones and 3-pyrazolidinones.