2025 – 9th Symposium – PhD Student Symposium

Jason Pellettieri, PhD: “The Biology of Planarians – Circling the Globe to Study Worms that Are Flat”
Krešimir Kumerički, PhD: “The Shape of the Proton”
Vjekoslav Kovač, PhD: “Problem Solving at the Level of Mathematical Research”
Petra Bajo, PhD: “Speleothems: Time Capsules of Earth’s Climate History”

“Startups – From Hypothesis to Market” (Mateo Čupić – Entropic; Stipe Lukin – KalphaTech; Marijana Serdar – Latom ; Mario Špadina – SeaCras)

We gave 10 awards in total, plus 3 additional awards for Quiz winners. Below you can find all the details of given awards.

Daniela Ivanković (Mathematics): “CHASING EXTREMES: HOW OFTEN DO RARE EVENTS OCCUR?”
Lucija Vrban (Chemistry): “DISRUPTION OF MONOAMINE OXIDASE B ENZYME BY SARS-COV-2 SPIKE PROTEIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES”
Lea Čolakić (Chemistry): “REAL-TIME IN SITU MONITORING OF STEREOSELECTIVE MECHANOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF OXIMES”

Bernardo Marciuš (Chemistry): “DETERMINATION OF IODINE AND HEAVY METALS IN ALGAE AND ALGAE-BASED FOOD WITH INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP-MS) AFTER ALKALINE EXTRACTION AND MICROWAVE DIGESTION”
Robert Pendelić (Chemistry): “A CELL-BASED REPORTER SYSTEM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL INHIBITORS OF AMINOACYL-tRNA-SYNTHETASES”
Tea Frey (Chemistry): “COMPUTATONALLY RATIONALIZING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS THROUGH MODIFYING MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS”