Department of Plant Sciences
Education:
2011 – Ph.D., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science;
2007 – M.Sc., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science;
2001 – B.Sc., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science.
Scientific rank and job position: Senior research associate at the Department of Plant Sciences; Head of the Department of Plant Sciences, Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Croatia;
Scientific and Professional Interests: plant stress physiology, plant reproductive biology, molecular biology, olive growing
Research grants and trainings:
Grants –
2022: Grant within the project of The Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding for research work at Laboratory Ecologie Microbienne, UMR CNRS 5557, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I; Lyon (France);
2018: Grant within the UKF project (Research Cooperability Program/1C My First Collaboration Grant 2017, Contract no 10/17) for research work at Ecologie Microbienne Lyon, UMR CNRS 5557 / UMR INRA 1418, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I; research related to reproductive biology of olive;
2015: Grant within COST Action FA1204 for short-term scientific mission at Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA); ref. code COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-FA1204-230315-055367; research related to abiotic stresses in plants;
2010: Grant for attending the Summer school in Scientific Communication, Supported by Croatian Science Foundation and the School of Medicine in Split.
Trainings –
2022: Harmonisation of protocols to analyse the agronomic behaviour of the different varieties included in the catalogue, online workshop; organized by International Olive Council (IOC); Izmir (Turkey);
2021: Certification System for Olive Tree Plants; The International Olive Council (IOC) network of germplasm banks, the True Healthy Olive Cultivars (THOC) Project and the World Catalogue of the main genetically authenticated olive tree varieties, workshop; Cordoba (Spain);
2021: Olive Growing and Climate Change online course; The International Olive Council (IOC) and the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ); Zaragoza (Spain);
2019: The IOC Network of Germplasm Banks and the True Healthy Olive Cultivars Project Seminar; International Olive Council (IOC); Córdoba (Spain);
2018: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska (Slovenia); training in paternity assessment in olive cultivars using SSR markers;
2016: Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Departamento de Horticultura (Valencia, Spain); research training related to plant stress physiology within the project “Tomato grafting mitigates biotic stress caused by whiteflies”; Croatian Science Foundation; IP-2014-09-3365;
2012: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska (Slovenia); training in paternity assessment in olive cultivars using SSR markers;
2011: International Olive Council (Madrid, Spain); International seminar on olive cultivation systems and oil quality;
2009: University of Almería, Departamento de Producción Vegetal (Almería, Spain); training in application of microscopy techniques in the assessment of reproductive processes in olive;
2006: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska (Slovenia); training in assessment of genetic variability in olive cultivars using different molecular markers;
2006: research training at the Institute Ruđer Bošković (Zagreb, Croatia); Methodological courses in biology and medicine “DNA i RNA”;
2003: International seminar for virgin olive oil quality improvement; International Olive Oil Council (Split, Croatia).
Membership:
2016. – Member of Organizing committee of VIII International Olive Symposium (Split, Croatia); and editor of the symposium related Acta Horticulturae; International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and Institute for Adriatic Crop, Split, Croatia (published in 2018);
2015 – today: Member of Professional panel for the sensory analysis of virgin olive oils of the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split;
2014 – today: Member of International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS);
2004 – today: Member of the Croatian Society of Plant Biology (CSPB)