OBRAZOVANJE
[ 9/2023 – 9/2025 ] Master’s Degree Program “Drug Research and Development”
Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka, Republic of Croatia
Grade point average: 4.7
Master’s thesis: Design and optimization of a QSAR predictive model for assessing the general and specific toxicity of molecules based on Tox21 data
[ 10/2020 – 09/2023 ] Bachelor’s Degree Program “Biology”
Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Republic of Croatia Grade point average: 4.4
Bachelor’s thesis: Distribution and accumulation of drugs in bones
[ 09/2015 – 07/2020 ] High School
Josip Slavenski Gymnasium Čakovec, Republic of Croatia
WORK EXPERIENCE
[ 10/2025 – current ] Institute for Anthropology, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Research associate in the system of science and higher education, Work on the NEXTAire project
STRUČNA PRAKSA
[ 02/2025 – 05/2025 ] Ascalia d.o.o, Čakovec/Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Internship focused on processing sensor data, evaluating low-cost sensors, and machine learning models for air quality prediction.
CERTIFIKATI
Python Basics – University of Michigan | Coursera
R Programming: Advanced Analytics in R for Data Science | Udemy
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification – DeepLearning.AI & Stanford Online | Coursera (Python)
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
[ 05/2024 ] Dean’s Award – for achieving the highest grade point average during studies
Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Republic of Croatia
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
[ 09/10/2024 ] Women Who are Changing Science – Driving Bold Research in Canada and Croatia 2024 – Rijeka
Passive participant
[ 05/10/2024 ] Fourth Symposium of Biotechnology Students PosteRi
Passive participant
DIGITAL SKILLS
OFFICE TOOLS: Microsoft Office package (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
PROGRAMMING AND ANALYTICS: Python (Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm), R: The R Project for Statistical Computing (RStudio), data analysis and visualization, data processing and cleaning, QSAR modeling, Machine Learning
COLLABORATION AND VERSION CONTROL: Git/GitHub
BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS: Clone Manager
DATABASES: PubChem, Tox21, ChEMBL
SCIENCE POPULARIZATION
[ 03/2023 ] Brain Week in Osijek, Volunteer
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue: Croatian
Other languages: English B2 & German A2
