In 2008, she enrolled in the undergraduate study of Environmental engineering at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb. She defended her thesis in 2011 (cum laude), and graduated in 2013 (magna cum laude). After completing her studies, she was employed at the Department of Industrial Ecology at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology as a professional associate on projects with the pharmaceutical industry. Since 2015, she has been employed as an assistant at the Department of the same name, and since 2021 as a senior assistant.

She has participated in numerous domestic and international conferences with oral and poster presentations. She participates in the preparation of professional studies and the organization of international water conferences (IWA Young Water Professionals). She has received numerous awards for her professional and scientific work. In 2020, she completed her scientific training abroad at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Water Quality and Resource Management, and in 2022 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. She was visiting guest teacher in 2025 at the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Chemical Technology.

She participates in teaching at the Department of Industrial Ecology, laboratory exercises and seminars in Microbiology; Environmental Protection; Air, Water and Soil Management;  Bioremediation; Industrial Wastewater Treatment; Solid and Hazardous Waste Treatment; Waste Composting; Environmental Engineering Laboratory. The field of scientific activity is in chemical engineering, the branch of environmental protection in chemical engineering. Research is related to the bioremediation of waste streams, with special emphasis on the isolation of selective microbial cultures with the potential to degrade xenobiotics.

M. Vuković Domanovac,  M. Volf,  M. Šabić Runjavec, I. Terzić, Sustainable and Advanced Strategies for Bioremediation of Highly Contaminated Wastewater. Processes, 13 (2025) 2250. (CC, Scopus, SCIE; IF (2024) = 2.4; Q2 )

T. Domanovac, D. Kučić Grgić, M. Šabić Runjavec, M. Vuković Domanovac, Design of a Bioreactor for Aerobic Biodegradation of Biowaste Based on Insight into Its Composition and Estimated Process Parameters. Processes 12 (2024) 545. (CC, SCIE; IF (2022) = 3.5; Q2)

B. Bertović, M. Šabić Runjavec, N. Todorović, I. Zgrebec, M. Vuković Domanovac, Biotechnological potential of oil-tolerant strains for possible use in bioremediation. Sustainability 16 (2024) 563. (CC, SCIE; IF (2022) = 3.9; Q1) 

M. Šabić Runjavec, M. Vuković Domanovac, A. Jukić, Ante, Application of industrial wastewater and sewage sludge for biohydrogen production, Energies 16 (2023) 2383. (CC, SCIE; IF (2022) = 3.2; Q1)

M. Vuković Domanovac, M. Šabić Runjavec, E. Meštrović, The modelling of biosorption for rapid removal of organic matter with activated sludge biomass from real industrial effluents, Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 39 (2022) 3361–3368 (CC, SCIE; IF (2021) = 3.146; Q2)

M. Šabić Runjavec, M. Vuković Domanovac, E. Meštrović, Removal of organic pollutants from real pharmaceutical industrial wastewater with environmentally friendly processes, Chemical Papers 76 (2022) 1423-1431. (CC, SCI, SCIE; IF (2021) = 2.146; Q2)

T. Sokač, A. Šalić, D. Kučić Grgić, M. Šabić Runjavec, M. Vidaković, A. Jurinjak Tušek, Đ. Horvat, J. Juras Krnjak, M. Vukovic Domanovac, B. Zelić, An enhanced composting process with bioaugmentation: Mathematical modelling and process optimization, Waste management & research 40 (2022) 745-753. (CC, SCIE; IF (2021) = 4.432; Q2)

D. Reif, E.  Saracevic, M. Šabić Runjavec, J. Haslinger,  H. Schaar, N. Kreuzinger, Desorption of organic micropollutants from loaded granular activated carbon, Water, 12 (2020) 2754. (CC,SCI-EXP)

M. Vuković Domanovac, M. Šabić Runjavec, E. Meštrović, Bioaugmentation effect of Aeromonas hydrophila and Pseudomonas putida on kinetics of activated sludge process in treating pharmaceutical industrial wastewater, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 94 (2019) 2721-2728. (CC, SCI, SCIE; IF = 2.750; Q1)

D. Kučić Grgić, M. Vuković Domanovac, T. Domanovac, M. Šabić, M. Cvetnić, V. Ocelić Bulatović,  Influence of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa BSW and Clinoptilolite addition on the biowaste composting process, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 44 (2019), 5399-5409. (SCI-EXP)

M. Šabić, L. Čižmek, M. Vuković Domanovac, E. Meštrović,  Biodegradation of erythromycin with environmental microorganism Pseudomonas aeruginosa 3011, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, 29 (3) (2015) 367-373. (SCI-EXP)

Knowledge of microbiological techniques and methods for the application of bioremediation of waste streams, and microscopic analysis of activated sludge.

Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers

Croatian Chemical Society

Croatian Microbiological Society

Green approach for antibiotic removal for the sustainability of the aquatic environment (ZePi), European Fund - Next Generation, NPOO.C3.2.R3-I1.05.0207 (2025-2026)

Development of the Tehnix plant for bioreactor composting of biowaste, European IRI funds - Cohesion Fund (2018–2021, EU IRI project)