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Personal information

 

Surname(s) / First name(s)

Smrečki / Vilko

Address(es)

Ruđer Bošković Institute, NMR Center, Bijenička 54, Zagreb

Telephone(s)

(385-1) 456 09 44

Fax(es)

(385-1) 468 00 85

E-mail(s), Web address(s)

smrecki@irb.hr

Nationality(-ies)

Croatian

Date of birth

September 07, 1966

Identification number from Records of Scientific Workers

190003

 

Work experience

 

• Dates (from – to)

2001 -

Name and address of employer

Ruđer Bošković Institute, NMR Center

Type of business or sector

scientific research

Occupation or position held

research associate

Main activities and responsibilities

nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and computational chemistry

 

• Dates (from – to)

1991 - 2001

Name and address of employer

Ruđer Bošković Institute, Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy

Type of business or sector

scientific research

Occupation or position held

research assistant

Main activities and responsibilities

molecular spectroscopy

 

Education

 

Date

July 07, 1998

Place of education

Zagreb

Name and type of organisation providing education

University of Zagreb

Title or qualification awarded

Ph. D. in Chemistry

 

Date

December 20, 1994

Place of education

Zagreb

Name and type of organisation providing education

Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Title or qualification awarded

M. Sc. in Chemistry

 

Date

July 03, 1990

Place of education

Zagreb

Name and type of organisation providing education

Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Title or qualification awarded

B. Sc. in Chemistry

 


 

 

Training

 

Year

1992

Place of training

Budapest, Hungary

Name and type of organisation providing training

Hungarian Academy of Science

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

infrared spectroscopy (Bowdoin College International Infrared Course)

 

Year

1994

Place of training

Linz, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (Fellowship of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Republic of Austria)

 

Year

1995

Place of training

Roskilde, Denmark

Name and type of organisation providing training

University of Roskilde

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

isotope effects (II. Summer School on Isotope Effects as Tools in Basic and Environmental Research)

 

Year

1996

Place of training

Budapest, Hungary

Name and type of organisation providing training

Central Institute of Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Science

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Raman spectroscopy (Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture and Education, Republic of Hungary)

 

Year

1997

Place of training

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Name and type of organisation providing training

Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

computational chemistry (The Twelfth Dubrovnik International Course & Conference on the Interfaces among Mathematics, Chemistry and Computer Sciences & The Fourth Croatian Meeting on Fullerenes)

 

Year

1998

Place of training

Darmstadt, Germany

Name and type of organisation providing training

Varian Associated, Inc.

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (Varian System Administration Course)

 

Year

1999

Place of training

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Name and type of organisation providing training

Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (The First International Dubrovnik NMR Course)

 

Year

2000

Place of training

Odessa, Ukraine

Name and type of organisation providing training

National Authority of Ukraine for the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (Regional Basic Course for Personnel Involved in the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention)

 


 

 

Year

2001-2002

Place of training

Linz, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (Postdoctoral fellowship of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Republic of Austria)

 

Year

2001

Place of training

Niederöblarn, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (NMR-Sommerschule: Ein- und mehr-Dimensionale Nmr-Spektroskopie in flüssiger Phase)

 

Year

2001

Place of training

Nove Hrady, Czech Republic

Name and type of organisation providing training

Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Česke Budejovice

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

computational chemistry (Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry Course)

 

Year

2001

Place of training

Niederöblarn, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (International Summer School: Solid State NMR for Liquid State NMR Spectroscopists)

 

Year

2002-2003

Place of training

Linz, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

NMR spectroscopy (Lise Meitner postdoctoral fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund - FWF)

 

Year

2003

Place of training

Linz, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

UNIX (UNIX - Aufbau und Systemadministrator Kurs)

 

Year

2003

Place of training

Mariapfarr, Austria

Name and type of organisation providing training

Johannes Kepler University

Principal subjects/Occupational skills covered

computational chemistry (Workshop on Theoretical Chemistry -  Theoretical Methods for Large Molecules: Hybrid QM/MM and Linear Scaling QM Approaches)

 

Personal skills and competencies

 

Mother tongue(s)

Croatian

 

Other language(s)

  

Language

English

German

Speaking

Proficient user – C1

Basic user – A2

Writing

Proficient user – C1

Independent user – B1

Understanding (listening and reading)

Proficient user – C1

Independent user – B1

 

Social skills and competencies

team spirit;

good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through work experience abroad;

good communication skills gained through experience as public relation person in an organization of citizens

 

Organisational skills and competencies

head of 4 bilateral Austrian-Croatian scientific projects; head of the project for young scientists; conducting and organising group seminars and lectures;

full-contact mentor of 6 diploma theses;

director of the 10th Central European NMR Symposium (CEUM 2008) and of an international summer school for solid-state NMR spectroscopy (ssssNMR 2007);

member of the Organizing Committee of 18 international scientific conferences (MATH/CHEM/COMP 1999-2006, 2008-2010; CECM 2000, 2003, 2006; EUCMOS 2008; DU NMR 06.2003, 10.2003, 2006);

participation in organising the Open Days of the Ruđer Bošković Institute;

Civil Expert in the NATO Food and Agriculture Planning Committee;

participation in activities of National Authority for the implementation of Chemical Weapons  Convention -  preparation and organization of two visits and inspections carried by the experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW);

commissioner for sport in the RBI subsidiary of the Independent Union of Research and Higher Education Employees of Croatia; manager of the indoor football (soccer) team of the Ruđer Bošković Institute

 

Technical skills and competencies

maintaining personal computers with Windows 9x/2k/XP operating systems; maintaining web server and firewall with Linux operating system, maintaining SUN workstation with SUN OS;  maintaining and managing web pages

 

Other skills and competencies

badminton and football (soccer)

 

Driving licence(s)

category B

 

Additional information

21 (+ 1 in press) scientific publications in international journals listed in Current Contents; one scientific publication in a book; 2 scientific publications in a scientific conference proceedings; one patent pending (PCT)

participation in 51 scientific conferences with 64 posters and oral contributions, as well as 2 invited lectures;

editor of 14 Books of Abstracts published at 14 international scientific conferences (MATH/CHEM/COMP 1999–2009, DU NMR 2006, CEUM 2008);

evaluations of scientific papers for international scientific journals (Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure, and Croatica Chemica Acta); member of the ESF Pool of Reviewers (2009-2012)

memberships: Croatian Chemical Society, American Chemical Society