Blanka Tariba Lovaković

Rijeka, 27 July 1985

• 2015 – PhD, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb
• 2009 – M.Eng. in chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

• 2022 – SENIOR SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATE, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
• 2017–2022. SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATE, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
• 2015–2017. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
• 2009–2015. ASSISTANT, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb

• Application of gas and liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry in the analysis of organic pollutants; 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; human biomonitoring

• Biostatistics in R (Zagreb, Croatia, 2024)
• Scientific training in the Associated Laboratory UCIBIO@REQUIMTE, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, within the COST action CliniMARK (Porto, Portugal, 2021)
• CliniMARK – Approaches for Biomarker Discovery and Validation, COST Summer School on Biomarkers (Spetses, Greece, 2019)
• LC-QTOF Workshop (Rijeka, Croatia, 2017)
• Validation of analytical methods (Zagreb, Croatia, 2017)
• Basic Proteomics Course (Zagreb, Croatia, 2016)
• Clinical and applied proteomics Workshop (Zagreb, Croatia, 2016)
• EUROTOX Principles of Toxicology Course (Zagreb, Croatia, 2016)
• Scientific training at Helmholz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit and Umwelt, Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry (Munich, Germany, 2015/2016)
• InnoMol Molecular Interactions Workshop (Zagreb, Croatia, 2015)
• Advanced School of Mass Spectrometry (Belgrade, Serbia, 2014)
• InnoMol Proteomics Workshop (Zagreb, Croatia, 2014)
• Course in Cancer risk assessment (Stockholm, Sweden, 2013)
• EUROTOX Basic Toxicology Course (Belgrade, Serbia, 2011)

• The annual award of the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health (IMROH) for a scientific paper with the largest number of citations published in journal Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology (Zagreb, Croatia, 2024)
• The annual award of the IMROH for at least 3 original scientific papers published in 2021 on of which the employee of the Institute is the first author (Zagreb, Croatia, 2022)
• The annual award of the IMROH to a young researcher for the largest number of papers published in 2020 (Zagreb, Croatia, 2021)
• Scholarship obtained by COST action CA16113 – CliniMARK for a study stay in an international scientific institution (2021)
• The annual award of the IMROH for a scientific paper with the largest number of citations published in journal Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology (Zagreb, Croatia, 2019)
• Scholarship obtained by COST action CA16113 – CliniMARK for attending COST summer school on biomarkers, Spetses, Greece (2019)
• The annual award of the IMROH to a young researcher for the largest number of papers published in 2017 (Zagreb, Croatia, 2018)
• Award for Research Excellence presented by the organizers of the XI Conference of the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans (ISTERH) (Dubrovnik, Croatia) to honour the scientific contribution at the ISTERH 2015 (2015)

• Croatian Society of Toxicology

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 2026–2029 Associate researcher within the scientific project Oxidative Potential and Airborne Organic Tracers – OxAirTracers (HrZZ, PI: Ranka Godec, PhD)
• 2025–2030 Principal Investigator Young Researchers’ Career Development Project – Training New Doctoral Students: Effects of exposure to plasticizers and microplastics on men’s reproductive health (HrZZ)
• 2025–2029 Associate researcher within the trilateral project Promoting effective transport through healthy bus drivers – PROMETHEUS (HrZZ, PIs: Goran Gajski (HR), Marina Otelea (RO) i Irina Guseva Canu (CH))
• 2024–2027 Principal Investigator Effects of exposure to plasticizers and microplastics on men’s reproductive health (HrZZ)
• 2024–2027 Associate researcher within the scientific project Assessment of Efficacy and Toxicity of Biologically Active Substances (EU – NextGenerationEU, PI: Nikolina Maček Hrvat, PhD)
• 2020–2023 Associate researcher within the project Development of a functional drink in sustainable packaging – JamINNO+ (KK.01.2.1.02.0305)
• 2019–2021 Principal Investigator Evaluation of reproductive toxicity of commonly used pesticides followed by chronic low-dose exposure in vivo (institutional project)
• 2018–2022 Associate researcher within the scientific project Application of Nanobiotechnology for Nutritional Supplementation with Selenium – NutriNTENSe (HrZZ, PI: Tomislav Vinković, PhD)
• 2017–2021 Associate researcher within the scientific project Assessment of daily exposure to metals and maternal individual susceptibility as factors of developmental origins of health and disease – METALORIGINS (HrZZ, PI: Martina Piasek, PhD)
• 2016–2018 Associate researcher within the scientific project Organic Pollutants in Environment – Markers and Biomarkers of Toxicity – OPENTOX (HrZZ, PI: Davor Želježić, PhD)
• 2015–2016 Associate researcher within the Croatian-German bilateral project Diabetes mellitus type 2 in the Croatian population after chronic exposure to arsenic (PIs: I. Vinković Vrček, PhD; B. Michalke, PhD)
• 2009–2014 Associate researcher within the scientific project Reproductive health effects of toxic and essential metals in men (Ministry of science, education and sports of the Republic of Croatia, PI: Alica Pizent, PhD)