WORK EXPERIENCE:
9/2025 – 11/2025 Student intern – Cell laboratory, Institut for Veterinær- og Husdyrvidenskab, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Research of inflammation and the influence of vitamin D on the hepatocyte cell line, Erasmus internship

2025 – Data analyst, Chemical codes, d.o.o., Zagreb

  • Bioinformatics and statistical analyses under the supervision of dr. sc. Mario LovrićWork&Travel program USA

07/2024 – 10/2024 Work&Travel program USA, The Little Nell, Aspen, Colorado

  • Cook III at banquets team

2024 – Group tutoring, Oratorij Marija Pomoćnica, Rijeka (Volunteer Activity)

  • Group tutoring for primary and secondary school students (mathematics, chemistry)

2022/2024 Coordinator of Student Project “Biotech Magazine”, Biotechnology Student Association at University of Rijeka, (Volunteer Activity)

  • The “Biotech Magazine” is written and edited by students, with the focus of the project being on the popularization of science.

2023/2024 Coordinator of Student Project “PosteRi”, Biotechnology Student Association at University of Rijeka, (Volunteer Activity)

  • Biotechnology Student Symposium “PosteRi” is a project that invites all students of biotechnology and related fields to share their experimental results in the form of posters.

2021-2022 Member of the USBRI pr team, Biotechnology Student Association at University of Rijeka, (Volunteer Activity)

  • Content development and creation for the social media platforms of the faculty and the student association.

2021 Co-coordinator of Student Project “Biotech Magazine”, Biotechnology Student Association at University of Rijeka, (Volunteer Activity)

  • The “Biotech Magazine” is written and edited by students, with the focus of the project being on the popularization of science.

09/2021 Student Intern – Microbiology laboratory, Opća županijska bolnica Pakrac i bolnica hrvatskih veterana, Pakrac

  • Student internship in a hospital microbiology laboratory lasting 2 weeks.

2020 – 2024 Member of the Appeals Disciplinary Committe, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

2022 – 2025 Biotechnology in Medicine, master program

Master’s thesis title: Comparative analysis of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor gene between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka

04/2024     Short-term scientific mission

Title: Comparative analysis of the AHR gene in Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens, Biologiezentrum der Universität Wien, Austria

19/09/2023-21/09/2023   Paleogenomics: From sampling and data collection to multidisciplinary analyses, Training school, Biologiezentrum der Universität Wien, Austria

2019 – 2022   bacc. biotechn. et pharm. Inv.

Bachelor’s thesis title: Evolution of human brain, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, University of Rijeka

PERSONAL SKILLS
Digital and computational skills: Tox21 data analysis, QSAR modeling, Machine Learning, Linux environment proficiency, Molecular docking (rDock), Handling genomic databases, Python and R programming language

Laboratory skills: Cell culture techniques, PCR, Cell differentiation assays