A new young researcher joins the project team

According to the public vacancy published on 21st November 2018 for the admission of one doctoral candidate to an associate position and work place of an assistant in the project by the Croatian Science Foundation “Young Researchers’ Career Development Project – Training of Doctoral Students”, Silvija Šafranko, mag. chem., was employed on 15th Februray 2019. Silvija Šafranko will write her PhD thesis as a part of this project research under the supervision of a PhD. Stela Jokić, associate professor. The candidate is employed on a fixed-term contract and her salary will be financed by HRZZ (Croatian Science Foundation).
During her undergraduate and graduate program, Silvija Šafranko was involved in several research studies in the field of bioinorganic chemistry, more precisely, investigating precipitation of calcium oxalate and participating in several conferences. Recently, two A1 articles have been published in journals Urolithiasis and Chemistry in Industry, and several articles are still in revision process. Also, she gained great computer skills using Microsoft Office package, OriginLab, ChemDoodle, Mathcad, Photoshop CS2, CorelDraw,…).
She has participated in various events promoting science, was a member of student associations, but also a president of Student Council of Department of Chemistry in Osijek. S. Šafranko recieved Rector’s Award twice (2017. and 2018.), and also a Dean’s Award (2018.).