| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Location: | -029 |
| Public phone number: | +385 1 4606 377 |
| Internal phone number: | 6377 |
| E-mail: | |
| Department: | Division of General and Inorganic Chemistry |
| Graduation year: | 2014 |
| PhD graduation year: | 2020 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 2015 |
undergraduate
Education
2020. Ph.D. in Chemistry, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry; Title: "Structural Transformations in Complexes of Cobalt, Nickel and Copper with Selected α-Amino Acids and Their Derivatives" (supervisor: Dr. Biserka Prugovečki, Prof.); Institution: Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
2014. Diploma Thesis in Chemistry (supervisors: Dr. Branimir Bertoša, Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Science; Dr. Marijana Hranjec, Prof., Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology); Institution: Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
Affiliation and current position
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: Assistant Professor (2025–today).
Visits to foreign research and education institutions
2024. National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – onwards – synchrotron facilities Elettra, Italy and DESY, Germany
Research interest
Coordination compounds, crystallography, crystallization, inorganic synthesis, metal-organic frameworks, porous materials, solid-state chemistry
Awards and recognitions
2014. - Medal for academic excellence, administered by the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
2020. - Annual Young Scientist's Award, administered by the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
2022. – Annual award „Brdo“ for the best assistant of the Department of Chemistry, administered by the Student Council of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Memberships
Croatian Crystallographic Association, Croatian Chemical Society, Croatian Zeolite Association
2015. – 2019, Researcher on the project: "Essential metal ions in Helicobacter pylori proteins and model complexes- structure and function/property" (Croatian Science Foundation HRZZ-IP-2014-09-4274)
2018. - 2022, Researcher on the project: "Combined molecular modelling and experimental studies of physiologically and stereochemically important copper(II) amino acid complexes" (Croatian Science Foundation HRZZ-IP-2014-09-3500)
2023 - today, Researcher on the project: "Molecular magnetism in advanced solid and soft materials" (Croatian Science Foundation HRZZ-IP-2022-10-9292)