Peter Zidar
| Peter Zidar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Nationality | Slovenian |
| Occupation | Coordinator of EU projects, Chairman of Operators Group in UMTS Forum |
| Known for | Author of "Universe Revealed" book |
Peter Zidar is chairman of Operators Group in UMTS Forum organization, where he is also a member of the Steering Board. He was unanimously elected for this position in March 2008. He represented UMTS Forum's Operators Group and Telekom Slovenje as a speaker at many international conferences including events in Great Britain, USA, China, Russia, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Arab Emirates, Thailand, Ethiopia, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic and Moldova. In March 2007 he was head of Slovenian national delegation on ETSI General Assembly in Nice. In September 2007 he was also a candidate for management board of SIST (Slovenian Institute for Standardization).
Currently he is main coordinator for two European FP7 projects SUNSEED and eBADGE.
He is author of more than 120 popular science articles in Slovenian monthly magazine "Življenje in tehnika" (Life and Technology) and other magazines and newspapers. From 2014 he is also member of editors board of "Življenje in tehnika" magazine.
He is an author of two books:
- a book about space exploration with title "Odstrto vesolje" (Universe Revealed). It was published in July 2008 (14,900 copies).
- a book about video games history with title "Kratka zgodovina videoiger" (A Brief History of Videogames) published in July 2011 (13,500 copies)
From 2009 to 2016 he had 18 radio and one TV interview on Slovenian national radio and TV Radiotelevizija Slovenija regarding topics related to both published books
References
"Življenje in tehnika" magazine