My research interests are diverse, but mostly fall within: evolutionary and behavioural ecology, wildlife/habitat conservation, Open Science, and informed decision making. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my work, ideas for collaborative projects, or if you think your group would benefit from a workshops on open practices or/and meta-analysis.
I am also actively advocating for diversity and equality in science. As a sole carer of a toddler, I have been experiencing many obstacles in managing my scientific career. I hope that being vocal about this can help in changing the current evaluation, expectation, and promotion systems in science, and encourage practices that accommodate those in less-common life-situations.
I currently hold VENI research fellowship at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Two main compoentnes of this fellowship are
I am also activly working on several other projects related to open science and meta-science in ecology, use of meta-anlaysis for informed decision making, and probelms related to uncertainty inherent to observational data
During my undergrad and Masters at the Univeristy of Zagreb, I was also working as an ornithologist at BIOM - Croatian association for biological research and Croatian Institute of Ornithology, where I still hold research ties. I did my Masters thesis on the urban bird fauna, linking habitat traits of urban parks to the diveristy of breeding and wintering birds.
After that, I have done a DPhil at the Univerity of Oxford (2010-2015), on pair fidelity and divorce in monogmous species, followed by a postdoc position at the the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford (2015-2016). During this position, I have established scientific background for a project on life-history and population dynamics in bats. During my PhD I have developed an interest in the Open Science, and I have took up an exciting position at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology to lead a project on Open Science and Meta-Analysis in ecology and evolution.
Affiliations
Invited talks and seminars
Organizing symposiums and workshops
Conference talks (non invited)
Outreach Activities
My collaborative network consists of several main clusters:
1) evolutionary ecology research cluster
2) SPI-Birds cluster (130 collaborators)
3) meta-science and Open Science cluster