Mitja received his MPharm from Faculty of Pharmacy in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2006. He then specialised as a community pharmacist and worked as associate lecturer of pharmacology in Maribor (Slovenia). He obtained his PhD in 2013 jointly at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Tours (France) developing fluorinated benzovesamicol derivatives as potential radioglands for the vesicular acetylcholine transporter.
Mitja joined the MICL in September 2013, as a Research Associate developing novel PET radiotracers for imaging Tau pathology and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease.