Sanja Stipičević – Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health

Place and date of birth

Zagreb, 1 April 1974

1988-1992 XI Gymnasium in Zagreb
1992-1998 Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb;
1998 Diploma in Chemistry
1998-2003 Graduate studies in natural sciences, Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
2003 MSc degree in natural sciences (chemistry)
2009 PhD degree in natural sciences (chemistry)

Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia, since 1998

Development of analytical methods for selective trace determination of organic pollutants and their degradation products in environmental and biological samples
Monitoring of temporal and spatial distribution of organic pollutants in soil and water
Studies on parameters affecting stability and mobility of organic pollutants in a soil/water system
Teaching: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate studies – Phytomedicine, Course: Interaction of herbicides in soil (since 2015)
Supervisor of Diploma Theses in a field of Analytical Chemistry (since 2001) – Workshops for students in primary and secondary schools (“edutainment”) (since 2012)
Coordinator of Institute’s Open Door Days (since 2014) – Editor for IMI Annual report (since 2016)

2001 University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 Workshop on Validation, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana and SENARC, Lipica, Slovenia
2007 3rd International Summer School „Advances and Trends in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of Persistant Toxic Substances“, RECETOX, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
2007 Statistics in validation of analytical methods, Croatian Metrology Society, Zagreb
2011 S-B-4 STATISTICA BASIC Course, Systemcom Ltd, Zagreb
2015 Application of standard HRN EN ISO/IEC 17025, Croatian Metrology Society, Zagreb
2016 Application of microreactors in the determination of antioxidant activity of wild plants (MICRO-AA), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Zagreb

2016. ACS Pittcon Travel Grant for Pittcon International Delegation, American Chemical Society (ACS), Atlanta, Georgia, US
2016. Pittcon Delegate Grant, Joint Board-Council Committee on International Activities, American Chemical Society – Office of International Activities and 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California, US

S. Stipičević et al., Persistence and mobility of green herbicides in agricultural soil. Extended Abstracts Database, Complete Communications of the 2nd International Conference on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Engineering / ScienceKNOW Conferences (ed.), Rome, Italy, 2016.
S. Stipičević et al., Distribution of terbuthylazine and atrazine residues in crop-cultivated soil: The effect of herbicide application rate on herbicide persistence. Geoderma 259/260 (2015); 300-309.

Croatian Chemical Society
American Chemical Society