Education
- 2022 PhD in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- 2018 MSc in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- 2016 BSc in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Work Experience
- 2019 – today – Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
Research projects
- 2024-2027 Environment Pollution and Human Health: Physico-Chemical Analysis, Toxicity and Machine Learning Models – EnvironPollutHealth, NextGenerationEU (collaborator)
- 2018–2023 Development, validation and application of analytical methods for PBDE determination – DeValApp, Croatian Science Foundation (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 (leader)
- 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 (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
- Analytical chemistry,
- development of analytical methods,
- persistent organic pollutants,
- environmental samples, biological samples,
- human health risk assessment
Additional training
- 2022 Summer School „Risk Assessment of regulated products“, EFSA, online
The basics of working in WordPress, SRCE, online
Introduction to LC-MS, Labtim, Zagreb, Croatia
Environmental Chemistry Towards Global Change – Chem2Change, ACE, online
Health Risk Assessment of Endocrine Disruptors, Karolinska Institutet, online - 2021 17th RECETOX Summer School 2021, RECETOX, online
9th BfR-Summer Academy 2021 – Lecture Series, BfR, online
Scientific School „A Comprehensive Approach to the Research of Anthropogenic Pressures on the Environment“, IRB, online - 2019 15th Summer School on Toxic Compounds in the Environment 2019, RECETOX, Brno, Czech Republic
XIX International Chromatography School, FCET, Zagreb, Croatia
Awards
- 2022 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
- 2021 “Young Scientist Award” for participation at 6th Croatian Congress of Toxicology (CROTOX2021), HTD, Rabac, Croatia
- 2020 Best Poster Award at 4th Symposium of PhD students of the Faculty of Science, PMF, Zagreb, Croatia
Memberships
- Croatian Chemical Society
- Croatian Society of Toxicology (Secretary, 2023-present)