Education
- 2017 PhD in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- 2011 BSc in Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Work Experience
- 2011–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)
- 2021–2022 Evaluation of Cytogenetic Effects of Air Pollutants Towards Human Cells in vitro, Foundation of the Croatian Academy for Sciences and Arts (collaborator)
- 2018–2021 Levels of platinum group elements (PGE) near roads, IMROH (leader)
- 2017–2023 Expansion and Modernisation of the National Network for Continuous Air Quality Monitoring – AIRQ, ERDF (collaborator)
Professional projects
- 2011–present Monitoring of Air Pollution in the City of Zagreb, City Office for Economy, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategic Planning, Zagreb, Croatia (collaborator)
- 2015–present Monitoring of Air Pollution at National Network Stations for the Purpose of Continued Air Quality Monitoring, Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia and Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia (collaborator)
Science popularization projects
- 2021 Healthy Like a Dragon, Civil Society „Naša djeca“ Ozalj/IMImobile 2021 (collaborator)
- 2019–present IMImobile, IMROH, Zagreb, Croatia (collaborator)
Fields of interest
- Analytical chemistry,
- development of analytical methods,
- particulate matter,
- environmental samples,
- metals,
- microplastics,
- human health risk assessment,
- science popularization
Additional training
- 2023 Training Program for Operator and Filler of Containers with Compressed Gases, ZIRS, Zagreb, Croatia
Health Risk Assessment: Principles and Applications, Advanced International Training Programme in Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden - 2020 Advanced ICP-MS 7900 Instrument Training, Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany
- 2019 Understanding and Applying the Norm HRN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017, IMROH, Zagreb
Awards
- 2023 Annual award for scientific paper published in the top scientific journal according to the Web of Science, IMROH, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2023 1st Prize for the best poster in the Agroecology, Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change Section, 58th Croatian and 18th International Symposium of Agriculture SA2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- 2021 3rd Prize for the best poster, 12th Croatian Scientific and Professional Meeting with International Participation „Air Protection 2021“, Medulin, Croatia
Memberships
- Croatian Air Pollution Prevention Association