| Title: | Full Professor |
| Location: | 211 |
| Public phone number: | +385 1 4606 136 |
| Internal phone number: | 6136 |
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| Department: | Division of Physical Chemistry |
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EDUCATION
1997 PhD
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
1991 BSc degree in Chemistry
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
CURRENT POSITION
from 2018 – Professor, tenure position, Divison of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2015 – 2019 Head of the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2011 – 2015 Head of the Divison of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2013 – 2018 Professor, Divison of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 – 2013 Associate Professor, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2003 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2000 – 2003 senior research assistant, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
1995 – 2000 research assistant, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
1991 – 1995 junior research assistant, Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2001 French Goverment fellowship, visiting scientist, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Bioinorganique, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (one month)
2000 French Goverment fellowship, visiting scientist, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Bioinorganique, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (one month)
1998/1999 CNRS postdoctoral fellowship, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Bioinorganique, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (one year)
1990 IAESTE fellowship, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Germany (three months)
2012 Faculty of Science Student Council Award for the best lecturer at the Department of Chemistry
2014 Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for Natural Sciences and Mathematics
2021 Medal of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Additional professional training
2008 visiting scientist, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Bioinorganique, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (two weeks)
1992, 1993 and 1994 visiting scientist, Laboratory for Raman Spectroscopy, Institut für Angewandte Physikalische Chemie, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany (several weeks each year)
SUPERVISION OF BSc AND PhD STUDENTS
2012 – 2020 8 PhD theses + 1 in progress
2003 – 2020 19 BSc/Mr theses
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2003 – 2017
Lecturer in Chemometrics, Chemical Thermodynamics and Irreversible Processes, Chemical Kinetics and Supramolecular Chemistry to postgraduate students of chemistry
Lecturer in Basic Physical Chemistry to undergraduate students of molecular biology
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics, Chemical Thermodynamics and Chemometrics to undergraduate students of chemistry
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
1991 – 2003
Laboratory teacher in Physical Chemistry to undergraduate students of chemistry and biology
Seminar teacher to undergraduate students taking a course in Physical Chemistry
Seminar teacher in Experimental Design and Data Analysis to postgraduate students of chemistry
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 member of the Organizing Committee of the conference Adriatic NMR, Mali Ston 3 times, Peroj, Croatia
2018, 2019 member of the Organizing Committee of the conferences 2nd and 3rd Symposium on Supramolecular Chemistry, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Zagreb, Croatia
2015 member of the Organizing Committee of the conference Application of NMR Spectroscopy in Pharmaceutical Industry, Crveni Otok, Rovinj, Croatia
2009 member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of XXI Croatian Meeting of Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Split, Croatia
2005 member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of XIX Croatian Meeting of Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Opatija, Croatia
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2013 – 2016 Head of the Doctoral Studies Council-Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
from 2011 member of the Doctoral Studies Council-Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
from 2010 member of the Faculty of Science Council, University of Zagreb
2009 – 2013 member of the Council for Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb
MEMBERSHIPS
from 2017 member of the Board of Chemistry of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
from 2017 member of the Board of Chemistry of the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education
2016 – 2019 Associate Member of the IUPAC Physical and Biophysical Division
2013 Croatian representative to the IUPAC General Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 – 2016 National Representative on IUPAC Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division
2011 IUPAC Representative at the 2nd World Conference on Physico-Chemical Methods in Drug Discovery and Development
from 2011 Associate Editor of the journal Croatica Chemica Acta
2009 Croatian representative to the IUPAC General Assembly, Glasgow, UK
from 2005 member of the Editorial Board of the journal Croatica Chemica Acta
2004 – 2006 General Secretary of the Croatian Chemical Society
1994 – 1998 Metric Processing Editor for the journal Food Technology and Biotechnology
from 1991 member of the Croatian Chemical Society
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Solution chemistry: electrolyte solutions (ion pairing and ion solvation); protonation and other equilibria; thermodynamics and kinetics of metal-ligand complexes formation
Supramolecular chemistry: thermodynamics of calixarene chemistry; thermodynamics of anion and cation complexation reactions
Chemometrics: factor analysis (application and development) and regression analysis of spectrometric and potentiometric data
Bioinorganic chemistry (equilibria and kinetics)
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Author of 78 scientific papers; >1500 citations; h-index = 22.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
from 2020 – leader of the Croatian Science Foundation project Coordination Reactions of Macrocyclic Ligands in Solution (MacroSol)
2015–2019 leader of the Croatian Science Foundation project Development of Supramolecular Receptors for Cations and Anions (SupraCAR)
2014–2016 research coordinator of the of the project Met4Pharm funded by EU structural funds (project leader: Professor Predrag Novak)
2007–2013 leader of the Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia project Electrolytes and Coordination Reactions in Solution
2002–2006 researcher on the Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia project Colloids, Interfaces and Electrolytes (project leader: Professor Nikola Kallay)
1996–2002 researcher on the Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia project Equilibria and Kinetics in Colloid and Electrolyte Systems (project leader: Professor Nikola Kallay)
1991–1996 researcher on the Ministry of Science, Republic of Croatia project Physical Chemistry of Colloids, Interfaces and Electrolytes (project leader: Professor Nikola Kallay)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
N. Vidović, G. Horvat, D. Riva, T. Rinkovec, N. Cindro, V. Tomišić, G. Speranza, Chloride-Assisted Peptide Macrocyclization, Org. Lett. 22 (2020) 2129−2134.
D. Barišić, N. Cindro, M. Juribašić Kulcsár, M. Tireli, K. Užarević, N. Bregović, V. Tomišić, Protonation and anion binding properties of aromatic bis‐urea derivatives – apprehending the proton transfer, Chem. Eur. J. 25 (2019), 4695-4706. (featured on the front cover of the Journal, IF: 5.160)
N. Cindro, J. Požar, D. Barišić, N. Bregović, K. Pičuljan, R. Tomaš, L. Frkanec, V. Tomišić, Neutral Glycoconjugated Amide-Based Calix[4]arenes: Complexation of Alkali Metal Cations in Water, Org. Biomol. Chem., 16 (2018) 904-912. (featured on the front cover of the Journal, IF:3.423)
G. Horvat, L. Frkanec, N. Cindro, V. Tomišić, A comprehensive study of the complexation of alkali metal cations by lower rim calix[4]arene amide derivatives, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19 (2017) 24316-24329. (IF: 3.906)
J. Požar, I. Nikšić-Franjić, M. Cvetnić, K. Leko, N. Cindro, K. Pičuljan, I. Borilović, L. Frkanec, V. Tomišić, Solvation Effect on Complexation of Alkali Metal Cations by a Calix[4]arene Ketone Derivative, J. Phys. Chem. B 121 (2017) 8539-8550. (IF: 3.146)
N. Bregović, N. Cindro, B. Bertoša, D. Barišić, L. Frkanec, K. Užarević, V. Tomišić, Dehydroacetic Acid Derivatives Bearing Amide or Urea Moieties as Effective Anion Receptors, Chem. Eur. J. (2017), DOI:10.1002/chem.201701677.
M. Tranfić Bakić, D. Jadreško, T. Hrenar, G. Horvat, J. Požar, N. Galić, V. Sokol, R. Tomaš, S. Alihodžić, M. Žinić, L. Frkanec, V. Tomišić, Fluorescent phenanthridine-based calix[4]arene derivatives: synthesis and thermodynamic and computational studies of their complexation with alkali-metal cations, RSC Advances 5 (2015) 23900-23914.
I. Sviben, N. Galić, V. Tomišić, L. Frkanec, Extraction and complexation of alkali and alkaline earth metal cations by lower-rim calix[4]arene diethylene glycol amide derivative, New J. Chem. 39 (2015) 6099-6107.
N. Bregović, N. Cindro, L. Frkanec, K. Užarević, V. Tomišić, Thermodynamic study of dihydrogen phosphate dimerization and complexation with novel urea- and thiourea-based receptors, Chem. Eur. J. 20 (2014) 15863–15871.
G. Horvat, V. Stilinović, B. Kaitner, L. Frkanec, V. Tomišić, The Effect of Specific Solvent-Solute Interactions on Complexation of Alkali-Metal Cations by a Lower-Rim Calix[4]arene Amide Derivative, Inorg. Chem. 52 (2013) 12702–12712.
K. Užarević, I. Halasz, I. Đilović, N. Bregović, M. Rubčić, D. Matković-Čalogović, Dubravka; V. Tomišić, Dynamic Molecular Recognition in Solid State for Separating Mixtures of Isomeric Dicarboxylic Acids, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52 (2013) 5504–5508.
G. Horvat, V. Stilinović, T. Hrenar, B. Kaitner, L. Frkanec, V. Tomišić, An Integrated Approach (Thermodynamic, Structural and Computational) to the Study of Complexation of Alkali Metal Cations by a Lower-Rim Calix[4]arene Amide Derivative in Acetonitrile, Inorg. Chem. 51 (2012) 6264-6278.
M. Rubčić, K. Užarević, I. Halasz, N. Bregović, M. Mališ, I.Đilović, Z. Kokan, R. Stein, R. E. Dinnebier, V. Tomišić, Desmotropy, Polymorphism, and Solid-State Proton Transfer: Four Solid Forms of an Aromatic o-Hydroxy Schiff Base, Chem. Eur. J. 18 (2012) 5620-5631.
P. Vukosav, M. Mlakar, V. Tomišić, Revision of iron(III)-citrate speciation in aqueous solution, Anal. Chim. Acta. 745 (2012) 85–91.
V. Tomišić, S. Blanc, M. Elhabiri, D. Expert, A.-M. Albrecht-Gary, Iron(III) Uptake and Release by Chrysobactin, a Siderophore of the Phytophatogenic Bacterium Erwinia chrysanthemi, Inorg. Chem. 47 (2008) 9419-9430.
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