NIB

SHORT CV

Education :

Primary School: 1989 – 1997,  OŠ Ledina, Ljubljana 

High School: 1997 – 2001,  Ledina High School, Ljubljana

Undergraduate studies: 2001 – 2008,  Biotechnical Faculty, Biology 

University post-graduate studies:     2008 – 2012, Biotechnical Faculty, Biology 

Title of PhD thesis: Photosynthetic properties and productivity of phytoplankton in the Gulf of Trieste

Field: Biology 

Supervisor: doc. dr. Patricija Mozetič 

Employment: 

2008 - 2014: young researcher at the Marine Biology Station of the National Institute of Biology

2014 - present: Research assistant with a PhD

COLLABORATIONS

September 2010 – February 2011: 5 months of professional training abroad, at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) Barcelona, under the supervision of the renowned phytoplanktologist dr. Marta Estrada, with the scholarship AD futura 

FIELD OF RESEARCH

My current research explores the eco-physiology of phytoplankton in coastal seas, where I am particularly interested in the impact of the physical properties of the water column on photo-physiological properties of phytoplankton. Other main area of research is the evaluation and modeling of primary production of phytoplankton and environmental influences on its seasonal dynamics. My research outlook is the possibility of predicting photosynthetic parameters and productivity of phytoplankton in the Gulf of using only routinely measured physical and chemical parameters of seawater, which would significantly help to identify long-term trends associated with environmental and natural pressures on marine ecosystems.


OTHER ACTIVITIES

Relevant training courses, workshops and conferences:

• June 2009: Training for working with ionising radiation 
• September 2009: participation at the Congress SAME, Portorož, Slovenia
• May 2010: Participation at the congress CIESM, Venice, Italy 
• September 2011: participation at the Congress PLANKTON 2011 Plymouth, England 
• March 2013: Participation in the India-EU Workshop on Marine Primary Production, Cochin, India 
• April 2013: Statistic course, Piran, Slovenia 
• February 2014: Participation at the ASLO Congress of Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii 
• May 2014: Training course for dynoflagellate cysts isolation from the sediment, Pesaro, Italy 

SELECTED (NEWER) PUBLICATIONS

Bibliography

1. TINTA, Tinkara, VOJVODA, Jana, MOZETIČ, Patricija, TALABER, Iva, VODOPIVEC, Martin, MALFATTI, F., TURK, Valentina. Bacterial community shift is induced by dynamic environmental parameters in a changing coastal ecosystem (northern Adriatic, NE Mediterranean Sea) - a 2 year time series study. Environmental microbiology, ISSN 1462-2912. [Print ed.], 2014, [In press], str. 1-16, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.12519/abstract, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12519.[COBISS.SI-ID 3156559] 

2. TALABER, Iva, FRANCÉ, Janja, MOZETIČ, Patricija. How phytoplankton physiology and community structure adjust to physical forcing in a coastal ecosystem (northern Adriatic Sea). Phycologia, ISSN 0031-8884, 2014, vol. 53, št. 1, str. 74-85. http://www.phycologia.org/doi/abs/10.2216/13-196.1. [COBISS.SI-ID 3040847] 

3. MOZETIČ, Patricija, FRANCÉ, Janja, KOGOVŠEK, Tjaša, TALABER, Iva, MALEJ, Alenka. Plankton trends and community changes in a coastal sea (northern Adriatic): bottom-up vs. top-down control in relation to environmental drivers. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, ISSN 0272-7714, 2012, vol. 115, str. 138-148, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.02.009. [COBISS.SI-ID 2504271] 

Link to COBISS, a Slovenian database containing all my publications