Place and date of birth
Zagreb, 4 September 1987
Education
- 2017-2021 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, post-graduate (doctoral) study of Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Engineering, Food Technology and Nutritionism
- 2010-2013 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, graduate study of Bioprocess Engineering
- 2006-2010 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, undergraduate study of Biotechnology
Work Experience
- November 2023 – Scientific Associate at Division of Toxicology, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
- February 2022 – November 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher at Toxicology Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
- 2017 – February 2022 – Assistant at Analytical Toxicology and Mineral Metabolism Unit, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
- 2014 – 2015 – Toxicology Expert at Department of Physical-chemical and Toxicology Expertise, Forensics Science Centre “Ivan Vučetić”, Ministry of the Interior, Zagreb
Fields of interest
- Application of gas chromatography with mass spectrometry in the analysis of phytochemicals, identification of psychoactive substances of abuse in selected populations; development and validation of analytical methods for determining traces of organic pollutants and their degradation products in biological and environmental samples; risk assessment of health effects, experience with cell lines and in the application of molecular biological methods for the detection of DNA molecule damage
Additional training
- Continuing Education Course Old methods, new perspective: new regulation and approach to toxicity testing of food chemicals, Rabac, Croatia (2021)
- Training and education in Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine, Backweston Laboratory Complex, Celbridge, Ireland (16 April – 16 June 2021)
- Understanding and applying the norm HRN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (2019)
- Comet Workshop – Basic comet assay techniques, Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegovina (2019)
- EUROTOX Specialized Toxicology Course in Regulatory Toxicology, Otočec, Slovenia (2018)
- HPLC Fundaments – Theory and Practice, Zagreb, Croatia (2017)
Awards
- Winner of COST, EUROTOX and Croatian Society of Toxicology Travel bursary awards supporting early scientist career
- 2011 – Rector’s award for the work Green, green, green: solvents, catalysts, processes
Memberships
- Member of the executive editorial board of the journal Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology
- Organizing Committee member at the 6th Croatian Congress of Toxicology – CROTOX 2021 (3 – 6 October 2021, Rabac, Croatia)
- Member of the Working Group on the Early Warning System on New Psychoactive Substances in the Republic of Croatia at the Croatian Institute for Public Health
- Member of the Croatian Society of Toxicology (HTD)
- Member of the Croatian Genetics Society (HGD)