We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the WearSense project team - Wearable Optical Chemical Sensors for Multimodal Determination of Biomarkers - at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology.

This position is offered on a fixed-term contract of 20 months duration, closing date for receipt of applications is July 4^th 2024.

For informal enquiries please contact Prof Ivana Murkovic Steinberg ivana.murkovic@fkit.unizg.hr

Pleased to have presented a keynote talk earlier this week at the NanoApp2024 conference (https://nanoapp.ios.si/) on our latest WearSense project results funded by Hrvatska zaklada za znanost (Croatian Science Foundation) – hosted in the timelessly beautiful Dominican Monastery in Ptuj, Slovenia.

A special big thanks to my long time friend and research collaborator Gerhard Mohr of JOANNEUM RESEARCH MATERIALS for his expertise and enthusiasm in all things chemical, and also to our younger team members  Iva Žuvić and Karlo Bubnjar of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology.

WearSense team presented at the Europt(r)ode conference 2024 in Birmingham:

Biocompatible nanofiber based ion-selective optodes: Towards reversible chemical sensors for wearables

Gerhard J. Mohr², Karlo Bubnjar¹, Svjetlana Krištafor¹ and Ivana Murković Steinberg¹

1) University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Marulićev trg 19, HR-10000 Zagreb,  Croatia

2) Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH – Materials, Franz-Pichler-Straße 30, Weiz A-8160, Austria

“Towards multimodal (bio)chemical sensing with wearable optoelectronics”

WearsSense team gave an invited seminar talk at the Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering (RCBE) at City, University of London  and presented current research on the development of optically sensitive materials and sensing schemes targetted at implementation on low-cost wearable devices.

We also introduced our new Croatian Science Foundation project and discussed collaboration modalities with Professor Panicos Kyriacou, Dr Meha Qassem and Dr James May.