Niki is an assistant researcher at InnoRenew CoE as well as a teaching assistant and PhD student at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska.

He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science at the same faculty. During his studies, he worked as a substitute teacher at a Slovenian Technical institute, Jurij Vega, in Gorica, Italy.

In his research work at InnoRenew CoE, Niki focuses on wireless sensor networks, distributed ledger technology, security and privacy.