| Title: | Full Professor |
| Public phone number: | +385(0)1 4898 079 |
| Internal phone number: | 8079 |
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| Department: | Division of Microbiology |
| Graduation year: | 1992 |
| mr.sc. graduation year: | 1996 |
| PhD graduation year: | 2000 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 1992 |
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Dijana Škorić obtained her PhD in biology in 2000 at the University of Zagreb. She is employed as a full tenured professor (permanent title) at the University of Zagreb Faculty of science (Department of Biology) , where she teaches at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies in courses related to molecular virology, subviral pathogens. She also started a course on service learning in biology. So far, she has been the mentor of two doctoral dissertations and more than 40 master's, graduate diploma and final theses. Her scientific interests are in the field of molecular plant pathology with emphasis on the diversity of plant viruses and subviral pathogens (viroids), molecular characterization, epidemiology and diversity of phytoplasmas and other non-cultivable bacteria.
She was a Fulbright scholar at the Department of Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside, USA, recipient of an EMBO short-term research grant at the Dipartimento di Patologia Vegetale e Scienze Ambientali, University of Bologna, Italy, where she was later a TEMPUS scholar, and visiting young researcher at Dipartimento di Patologia Vegetale, Università di Bari, Italy.
Dijana Škorić was the president of two scientific committees of international congresses, the president of the organizational committees of one national congress with international participation and two international symposia. She personally presented five invited lectures at international and national meetings with international participation.
She was the PI of one Croatian-Slovenian HRZZ research project, two bilateral projects of the Ministry of Science and Education, the EU service learning learning project "In the company of microbes" from the European Social Fund, and participated in the implementation of six international scientific projects as follows: SEE-ERA.NET "Global epidemiology of phytoplasma diseases of economic importance in Southeast Europe" (Network PHYTOPLASMA-EPIDEMIO) FP6 from the networking category (November 2007 - July 2008), COST Action FA0807 "Integrated Management of Phytoplasma Epidemics in Different Crop Systems" (2009-2013), COST Action FA0806 "Plant virus control employing RNA-based vaccines: A novel non-transgenic strategy" (2009-2013). COST Action FA1407 DIVAS "Deep investigation on viral associated sequences" (2015-2019) Horizon2020 WiNetwork "Network for the exchange and transfer of innovative knowledge between European winegrowing regions to increase the productivity and the sustainability of the sector", no. 652601 (2015-2017) ICGEB CRP/MNE19-01 - International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) collaborative research project "Next generation diagnostics and characterization for emerging viruses and virus-like agents of pome and stone fruits in Montenegro" (10/2021-12/2023) ). She also participated as a researcher in 11 national scientific projects.
D. Škorić is a member of international and national conference scientific and organization committees. She is a member of the Croatian Biological Society 1885 and the Croatian Microbiological Society (HMD). She represents HMD in the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) since 2012 and in the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) since 2022. She was the president of the Virological Section of HMD in 2013-2017, and the representative of HMD in the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) 2018-2021. She is also a member of the International Organization of Citrus Virologists (IOCV), the International Council for the Study of Viruses and Virus-like Diseases of the Grapevine (ICVG), the International Council for the Study of Viruses and other Graft Transmissible Diseases of Fruit Crops (ICVF) in in which she has been a member of the scientific committee since 2019. Among others, she held the position of deputy head of the Department of Biology and student advisor (2010-2011) and the head of the Division of Microbiology (2016-2020).
Prof. Dijana Škorić published more than seventy scientific and professional papers, five chapters in international books, three in national books and was a co-author of a university textbook. She participated in more than 35 international scientific conferences. In addition to English, she speaks French and Italian.
She was a member of the editorial board (as associate editor 2010-2014 and as senior editor from 2015-2023) of the Journal of Plant Pathology, and since 2022 she has been a member of the Frontiers in Microbiology editorial board. She reviewed of over 80 papers for journals listed in the SCI, JCR and Scopus databases (Journal of Plant Pathology, Plant Disease, Plant Pathology, Canadian Journal of Phytopathology, Journal of Phytopathology, New Phytologist, Journal of Virological Methods, Phytopatologia Mediterranea, Acta Botanica Croatica, etc. ). She was a reviewer of scientific projects for the American NSF, the Swedish ISF, and evaluator in the selection procedures for positions at international and national academic institutions.
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