dr. sc. Katarina Pičuljan

Biography

Education

2014 PhD degree in Chemistry (Analytical Chemistry)
Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

2006 BSc degree in Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Affiliation and current position:

2014 – Senior Research Assistant, Division of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Previous positions: 

2007 – 2014 Assistant, Division of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Visits to foreign research and education institutions: National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2010); Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (2010); Institute of Chemistry, Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria (2010, 2012)  

Research interest: NMR spectroscopy, solid and solution state structural characterization of bioactive compounds by combined experimental and theoretical approach, study of hydrogen bonds, study of interactions between ligands and their biological receptors  

Scientific papers: co-author of 8 scientific papers in journals indexed in Current Contents database  

Awards and recognitions and memberships: Member of the Croatian Chemical Society  

Participation in research projects:  

2017– 2019 Development of Supramolecular Receptors for Cations and Anions, Croatian Science Foundation (project leader: Professor Vladislav Tomišić) 

2014–2016 The development of a new methodology for the control of drug preparation process – Met4Pharm, European Regional Development Fund and Croatian State Budget (project leader: Professor Predrag Novak) 

2012–2013  Investigating macrolide antibiotic interactions with membranes and ribosomes as a tool  for rational drug design, bilateral Croatian-Austrian project funded by the Government of  the Republic of Croatia and the Austrian Federal Government (project leadesr: Professor Predrag Novak and Professor Klaus Zangger) 

2007–2013  Interactions and design of bioactive molecules, Ministry of Science, Education  and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (project leader: Professor Predrag Novak) 

2010  Conformational Analysis and Hydrogen Bonding Interactions in Thiosemicarbazones, EAST-NMR project (project leader: Professor Predrag Novak) 

2010–2011  Macrolide-ribosome interactions monitored by NMR paramagnetic relaxation  enhancements, bilateral Croatian-Austrian project funded by the Government of the  Republic of Croatia and the Austrian Federal Government (project leader: Professor Predrag Novak) 

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