Department of Applied 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 –
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 –
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); paternity assessment in olive cultivars using SSR markers;
2016: Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Departamento de Horticultura (Valencia, Spain); scientific 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); 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); 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); assessment of genetic variability in olive cultivars using different molecular markers;
2006: scientific 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).
Memberships:
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. – Member of Professional panel for the sensory analysis of virgin olive oils of the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split;
2014 – 2018: Member of International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS);
2004. – Member of the Croatian Society of Plant Biology (CSPB)