Education, academic, and scientific degrees

  • 2022. Assistant Professor, chemistry
  • 2021. Doctor of Science in the field of chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science; thesis: “Development and application of models for assessing the ecotoxicological risk of bioactive chemical compounds”
  • 2012. Master degree in applied chemistry, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology

Work experience

  • 2023 – present: Institute of Anthropology, Research associate
  • 2021 – 2023: Know-Center, Austria, Group leader Computational life sciences
  • 2018 – 2019: Bioinformatician, Children’s Hospital Srebrnjak
  • 2017 – 2021: Know-Center, Austria, Senior Data Scientist
  • 2015 – 2017: Pliva d.o.o., Researcher analytical chemistry
  • 2014 – 2015: University of Basel, Switzerland, Research Fellow
  • 2012 – 2013: AC2T, Austria, Researcher analytical chemistry

Participation in projects

  • 2022 – 2026: Scientific Director, “Evidence-driven indoor air quality improvement – EDIAQI” (coordinator: Francesco Mureddu, The Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness ASBL, Brussels, Belgium), HORIZON Europe (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-ENVHLTH-02-02)
  • 2023 – 2027: Co-author of the project and researcher, KNOWSKITE-X — Knowledge-driven fine-tuning of perovskite-based electrode materials for reversible Chemicals-to-Power devices (HORIZON.2.4 – Digital, Industry and Space), Grant agreement ID: 101057497
  • 2021 – 2023: Project Leader, KI in der Pflege – Entwicklung einer künstlichen Intelligenz zur Unterstützung bei der Pflegediagnostik und Pflegeplanerstellung, FFG Basisprogramm, https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/4159813
  • 2019 – 2022: Deputy Project Leader, Artificial Intelligence to assist Patient Solution Development, COMET FFG, Know-Center
  • 2018 – 2021: Researcher, HIDALGO – HPC and Big Data Technologies for Global Systems (INFRAEDI-02-2018: HPC PPP – Centers of Excellence on HPC /RIA), Grant No 824115
  • 2018 – 2021: Work Package Leader, IC-MPPE – Integrated Computational Material, Process and Product Engineering, COMET FFG, https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/1837046

Scientific and professional development

  • 2018: Copenhagen School of Chemometrics – Design of Experiments, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2018: Copenhagen School of Chemometrics – Linear Classification, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2015: Zagreb, Pliva, Education program in gas and liquid chromatography

Teaching activity:

  • Participating in graduate course “Systems Biomedicine” – Biotechnology in Medicine (2023, Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka).
  • Participating in graduate course “Artificial Intelligence Methods in Chemical Engineering” – Chemical Engineering (2022, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb).

Organizational skills and competencies

Laboratory management:

  • 2021 – 2023: Group leader Computational life sciences

Scholarships

  • 2020. Research stay (EEACI scholarship), COPSAC, Denmark
  • 2019. Research stay (French Government scholarship), University of Reims, France
  • 2016. Research stay (French Government scholarship), University of Strasbourg, France
  • 2012. Erasmus+ stay, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 2012. IAESTE internship, EMPA, Switzerland

Membership in professional organizations and associations

  • Croatian Toxicology Society (HTD)
  • Croatian Chemical Society (HKD)
  • Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers (HDKI)

Research interests: chemometrics, machine learning, bioinformatics, computational toxicology.