Research visits:

• University of Bremen (1997-2000, doctoral study), 2000-2004, six months of extended stays.
• Up to one moth long study visits in China, Iran, Brasil, and USA.

Other:

He (co)authored 60 original and review scientific papers and five scientific monographs. His most important work is a monograph Processes of speleogenessis : a modelling approach, published by ZRC Publishing in 2005. The book presents the most comprehensive review of numerical modelling of early speleogenesis. He supervised five doctoral students; they developed new methods of observing and modelling the dynamics of underground waters, new numerical models of the evolution of karst aquifers, and models of the sources, transport and sinks of carbon dioxide in karst.

He has been editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Carsologia since 2011. He is the chairman of the expert council of the Škocjan Caves Park and an associate member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2015.

Selected publications:

• GABROVŠEK, Franci, PERIC, Borut, KAUFMANN, Georg. Hydraulics of epiphreatic flow of a karst aquifer. Journal of Hydrology. [Print ed.]. May 2018, vol. 560, str. 56-74, ilustr. ISSN 0022-1694. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.03.019.
• DREYBRODT, Wolfgang, GABROVŠEK, Franci. Dynamics of wormhole formation in fractured limestones. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 2019, vol. 23, no. 4, str. 1995-2014, ilustr. ISSN 1027-5606. DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-1995-2019.
• KAUFMANN, Georg, GABROVŠEK, Franci, ROMANOV, Douchko. Fracture evolution in soluble rocks : from single-material fractures towards multi-material fractures = Odvisnost kraškega razvoja razpoke od vrste in zaporedja vodotopnih kamnin, skozi katere poteka. Acta carsologica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2017, letn. 46, št. 2/3, str. 199-216, ilustr. ISSN 0583-6050. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/carsologica/article/view/5135/6248, DOI: 10.3986/ac.v46i2-3.5135.
• BLATNIK, Matej, MAYAUD, Cyril, GABROVŠEK, Franci. Groundwater dynamics between Planinsko Polje and springs of the Ljubljanica River, Slovenia = Dinamika podzemne vode med Planinskim poljem in izviri Ljubljanice, Slovenija. Acta carsologica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2019, letn. 48, št. 2, str. 199-226, ilustr. ISSN 0583-6050. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/carsologica/article/view/7263/7188, DOI: 10.3986/ac.v48i2.7263.
• MAYAUD, Cyril, GABROVŠEK, Franci, BLATNIK, Matej, KOGOVŠEK, Blaž, PETRIČ, Metka, RAVBAR, Nataša. Understanding flooding in poljes : a modelling perspective. Journal of Hydrology. [Print ed.]. Aug. 2019, vol. 575, str. 874-889, ilustr. ISSN 0022-1694. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.04.092.
• BRAITENBERG, Carla, PIVETTA, Tommaso, BARBOLLA, Dora Francesca, GABROVŠEK, Franci, DEVOTI, Roberto, NAGY, Ildikò. Terrain uplift due to natural hydrologic overpressure in karstic conduits. Scientific reports. 8 March 2019, vol. 9, art. no. 3934, str. 1-10, ilustr. ISSN 2045-2322. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38814-1, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38814-1.
• BLATNIK, Matej, FRANTAR, Peter, KOSEC, Denis, GABROVŠEK, Franci. Measurements of the outflow along the eastern border of Planinsko Polje, Slovenia = Meritve odtoka na vzhodnem robu Planinskega polja, Slovenija. Acta carsologica. [Tiskana izd.]. 2017, letn. 46, št. 1, str. 83-93, ilustr. ISSN 0583-6050. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/carsologica/article/view/4774/4752, DOI: 10.3986/ac.v46i1.4774.
• GABROVŠEK, Franci. Speleogenesis : telogenetic. In: WHITE, William Blaine (ed.), CULVER, David C. (ed.), PIPAN, Tanja (ed.). Encyclopedia of caves. 3rd ed. London [etc.]: Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, cop. 2019. Str. 989-995, ilustr. ISBN 978-0-12-814124-3. [COBISS.SI-ID 44674349]