Research Associate
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She graduated in Archaeology from the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with a thesis in Palaeolithic archaeology. For her academic achievements, she received the Award for Excellence in the graduate programme in Archaeology and a Scholarship for Excellence in the Postgraduate Doctoral Programme in Archaeology (FFZG). She obtained her PhD at the same faculty in 2024, with a dissertation focused on hunter-gatherer diet at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition, based on the analysis of mammal and mollusc assemblages from the eastern Adriatic coast (Vlakno Cave).
She has been employed at the Institute of Archaeology since 2018, first as a researsh assistant and doctoral candidate, later as a research associate, and since 2025 as a research fellow.
She has participated as a collaborator on several projects funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, including ARCHAEOLIM (UIP-2013-11-7789, PI: I. Janković), where she worked on the analysis of Palaeolithic lithic assemblages; FEMINE (IP-06-2016-1749, PI: M. Dizdar), focusing on the role of animal remains in female burials; and AdriaCos (UIP-2020-02-2419, PI: M. Ugarković), in which she investigates the economic exploitation of animals in Late Prehistory and Antiquity in central Dalmatia.
She has taken part in numerous systematic and rescue archaeological excavations across Croatia, covering periods from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Modern era. She is the author or co-author of several scientific papers and regularly participates in national and international conferences. She was a member of the organising committee of the 10th Postgraduate Zooarchaeology Forum, held in Zagreb in 2023.
Her research interests include zooarchaeology and archaeomalacology within the framework of economic and Mediterranean archaeology. She focuses on past diet, the role of animals in society, and human–environment interactions through the analysis of animal resources. Her research adopts a diachronic perspective, taking into account climatic, palaeoenvironmental, and socio-cultural changes that shaped adaptive strategies and animal exploitation patterns, with particular emphasis on island and coastal communities.