Matej is an Assistant Researcher at the Department of Multimedia and Information-Communication Technologies at the University of Žilina, Slovakia. He earned his BSc degree in Communication and Information Technologies in 2023 and is currently in the final year of his MSc studies in Telecommunication and Radiocommunication Engineering. His research is focused on the design of polarization-insensitive photonic elements, with a primary emphasis on surface grating couplers and optical filters for telecommunications and data communications applications.