Education
- 2015 PhD in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- 2007 BSc in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Work Experience
- 2007–present Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Research projects
- 2024–2027 Environment pollution and human health: physico-chemical analysis, toxicity and machine learning models – EnvironPollutHealth, NextGenerationEU (collaborator)
- 2022–2023 Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in dust of public places – do they pose a risk to human health?, Foundation of the Croatian Academy for Sciences and Arts (collaborator)
- 2020–2021 Development of analytical methods for obtaining the first data on human exposure in Croatia to brominated compounds, Foundation of the Croatian Academy for Sciences and Arts (leader)
- 2018–2023 Development, validation and application of analytical methods for PBDE determination – DeValApp, Croatian Science Foundation (collaborator)
- 2015–2016 Behaviour of New Herbicides in Cornfield near Zagreb, Croatia, Foundation of the Croatian Academy for Sciences and Arts (collaborator)
- 2014–2018 Organic Pollutants in Environment – Markers and Biomarkers of Toxicity – OPENTOX, Croatian Science Foundation (collaborator)
- 2011–2013 Monitoring of Organic and Inorganic Pollution in the Environment of Plitvice Lakes, Plitvice Lakes National Park (collaborator)
- 2008–2014 Organic Pollutants in Environment: Distribution, Interactions, Human Exposure, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (collaborator)
Science popularization projects
- 2022–2024 Meet the Toxicity – Live Safely – MeeTox, EU Erasmus+ KA2 (collaborator)
- 2021 Healthy Like a Dragon, Civil Society „Naša djeca“ Ozalj/IMImobile 2021 (collaborator)
Fields of interest
- Development and validation of analytical methods,
- persistent organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples,
- gas chromatography,
- human exposure and risk assessment
Additional training
- 2022. Summer School on Risk Assessment of Regulated Products, EFSA, online
Introduction to LC-MS, Labtim, Zagreb, Croatia - 2016. Principles of Toxicology Course, Croatian Society of Toxicology under the auspices of EUROTOX, Zagreb, Croatia
XVI International Chromatography School, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia - 2009. 5th Summer School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology – RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Awards
- 2023 Annual Award for at least 3 original scientific papers on which the employee is the first author, and were published in journals indexed in the Web of Science, IMROH, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2016 Fellowship „Young Scientist“ for 5th Croatian Congress of Toxicology (CROTOX2016) with international participation, HTD, Zagreb, Croatia
Memberships
- Croatian Chemical Society
- Croatian Society of Toxicology