Jure Zupan

Jure Zupan is a Slovenian physicist and founder of chemomectrics research in Slovenia, known for his work in applications and development of artificial neural networks in chemistry.

He did his first research on the magnetic properties of solids at the Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana (1963–1973).

In 1974 he has joined National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana to work on Computerized Databases, Chemometrics, and Artificial Intelligence.

He did his post doctoral research at ETH Zürich (1975) and at NIH, Bethesda (1978).

With Johann Gasteiger he co-authored Neural Networks in Chemistry and Drug Design.