PERSONAL INFORMATION
Scientific Personal Identification Number 113165
Date and place of birth: June 21st 1958, Zadar
Scientific title: Professor, PhD, Specialist in Cytometry (American Society of Clinical Pathology)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2024 – present Senior scientist, Professor Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb
2010 – present Senior scientist, Professor, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
1994 – 2010 – Senior scientist, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
1993 -1994 Research Officer, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Sydney, Australia
1990 -1993 Research Officer Lymphocyte Differentiation Unit, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
1981-1990 Department of Experimental Biology and Medicine,Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
PROFESSIONAL FIELD
Regenerative medicine, lymphocyte and thymus development, hematology, adult stem cell, nanotechnology, flow cytometry,
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1976 -1981 Bachelor’s Degree, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb,
1981-1984 MSc Degree, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, field: Biology
1984 – 1987. PhD Degree, Ludwig Maximilian’s University, Munich, Germany, field: Molecular biology, Immunology
1997 and 1998 Stem Cell Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
1996 The Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
1992 Institute for Immunology, INSERM, Marseille, France
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Croatian Immunological Society, president
American Society of Hematology (ASH),
European Hematology Association (EHA)
CIVITAS – ZAGREB, a non-profit, non-governmental organization for the media promotion of civil society (science dissemination in elementary schools) Life member of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
AWARDS
2012/ Honored by Ruđer Bošković Institute Annual Award
2009/ Award of the Croatian Immunological society
2000/ Federal Award of the Croatian Government,
1999/ Award of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
1987/ Federal Award for Young Scientists for Outstanding Scientific Achievements
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2016 – 2020 Board Director for the National Scientific Award in Biomedicine, Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia
2017, 2018 Panel member of the Slovenian Research Agency
2015, Panel director for Biomedicine of the Croatian Science Foundation,
2023 Reviewer for the European Commission, Horizon 2020
Lecturer in Methodological courses in biology and medicine at the University
of Zagreb, Head of Laboratory for more than 20 years
Ambassador of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
full list available on CroRIS