Lidija Furač is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated in chemical engineering in 1993 and received her master's degree in 2000 on voltammetric research of copper complexes with azithromycin at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology. She received Ph D in 2005 on research into the characterization and properties of arsenic in drinking water, also at the  Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology.

Her research includes electrochemical studies of macrolides, chemical water, equilibrium phenomena and surface complexes that form at the solid/liquid interface, the issue of arsenic in drinking water, which includes methods of removing arsenic from drinking water and the influence of various factors on the release of arsenic into the environment.  Also, the area of ​​interest is the research of fluorescent nanomaterials as chemical sensors for pH and metal ions, as well as the design of optical sensors, the issue of the appearance and detection of microplastics in the environment. The current work is focused on the research of SARS-CoV2 antivirals in the environment.

• K. Košutić, L. Furač, L. Sipos, B. Kunst, Removal of arsenic and pesticides from drinking water by nanofiltration membranes, Separation and Purification Technology, 42 (2005) 137-144.
• I. Ternjej, I. Stanković, , Z. Mihaljević, L. Furač, D.  Želježić, N. Kopjar, Alkaline comet assay as potential tool in the assessment of DNA integrity in a freshwater zooplankton affectesd by pollutants from water treatment facility, Water, air and soil pollution, 204 (2009) 1/4, 299-314.
• I. Stanković, I. Ternjej, Z. Mihaljević, L. Furač, M. Kerovec, Crustacean Plankton Community(Crustacea:Copepoda&Cladocera) in Gypsum Karst Lakes and their Relation to Abiotic Parameters,Hydrobiologia, 666 (2011) 1,145-153.
• D. Kučić, M. Simonič, L. Furač, Batch adsorption of Cr (VI) ions from an aqueous solution on zeolite and agroindustrial waste: Equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamic study, Chemical and biochemical engeenering quarterly, 31 (2017) 497-507.
• A. Tutić, M. Miloloža, M. Cvetnić, V. Martinjak, L. Furač, M. Markić, Š. Ukić, T. Bolanča i D. Kučić Grgić, Karakteristike i obrada otpadne vode koksne industrije, Kem. Ind. 72 (5-6) (2023) 349–358.

• 2002 - 2006 researcher on scientific project 0125017 financed by Croatian Science Foundation, Development and research of complex water purification procedures (Prof.  L. Sipos, Ph. D.)

• 2007-2013 researcher on scientific project 125-1253008-2571 financed by Croatian Science Foundation Purification and stabilization of water in large water supply systems ( L. Sipos, Ph.D.)

• 2015 - 2019 researcher on scientific project HRZZ 3386 financed by Croatian Science Foundation, Design and synthesis of new nitrogen heterocyclic fluorophores and fluorescent nanomaterials as chemical sensors for pH and metal ions, iNFiNiTE–SENS( Ph. D.  R. Vianello)

• 2023 - 2027 researcher on scientific project financed by Croatian Science Foundation Okolišni aspekti SARS-CoV-2 antivirotika  (Ph. D. Š. Ukić)