| Title: | Adjunct lecturer |
| Function: | Senior Teaching Assistant |
| Location: | 4 MPZ |
| Public phone number: | +385 1 460 5963 |
| Internal phone number: | 5963 |
| E-mail: | |
| Department: | Department of Geology |
| Graduation year: | 2012 |
| PhD graduation year: | 2023 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 2017 |
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anytime during working hours with obligatory notice via e-mail
Zvonka Gverić was born in 1987 in Varaždin, Croatia, where she completed primary and secondary level education. In 2006 she enroled in Environmental Sciences bachelor's course at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. After completing her Bachelor's she continued her studies at Environmental Geology Master's program. She graduated in 2012 covering the topic of mineralogical and chemical characteristics of Croatian bentonites, mentored by Prof Darko Tibljaš. She spent part of her Master's studies at the Pannonian University in Veszprém, Hungary where she participated in a study of carbonate precipitation in Lake Balaton using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).
After a short detour during which she worked in Brussels representing local authorities as the Head of Croatian Regions Office from 2014, she returned to Zagreb and Geology in 2017. She completed her doctoral studies in 2023 defending the thesis titled Changes in clay mineralogy in soils developed in temperate climate on Miocene and Plio-Quaternary sediments of Medvednica Mt., Croatia (mentors: Prof Nenad Tomašić and Assoc. Prof Vedran Rubinić). Part of her research was done at the Institute of Geology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
Her research encompasses clay minerals and their transformations facilitated by pedogenesis, weathering or diagenesis. She is also focused on the implementation of various analytical techniques in clay minerals identification and quantification (XRD, FTIR). Her scientific interests are directed towards the use of clay minerals as recorders of past environments and environmental changes.
member of Croatian Geological Society - secretary of the Croatian Clay Group (since 2024)
member of Croatian Crystallographic Union
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