2000. - 2006.
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, B.Sc., ecology
2010. - 2015.
Ph.D. studies in Molecular Biosciences (University of Osijek, University of Dubrovnik and Ruđer Bošković Institute)

2022 - 2024 Adris Foundation project "Systematics, taxonomy, and protection of cave spiders of the Rhodinae subfamily". Team: Martina Pavlek Principal investigator, team members: Iva Ćupić student, Miquel Arnedo reserch collaborator.

2017 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher on a HiddenLife project, Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions Individual Fellowship, University of Barcelona, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/749867

2015 June– 2016 September European Social Fond project “Genome evolution of subterranean animals” HR.3.2.01-0015. Team: Martina Pavlek Principal investigator, team members: Marko Lukić PhD student; Tanja Vojvoda Zeljko postdoctoral resercher.

2020 Systematics Research Fund award by the The Linnean Society & Systematics Association

2020 SYNTHESYS+, IL-TAF-8269

2017 100 000 MSCA FELLOWS AWARD for the od HiddenLife project, European Commission, European Researchers' Night, Brussels

2016 Annual prize of Society of university teachers and the other scientist in Zagreb

Books and book chapters

Authored books

• Bregović, P., Mišerić, I., Bedek, J., Ćukušić, A., Čupić, I., Delić, T., Dražina, T., Hlebec, D., Komerički, A., Lukić, M., Pavlek, M., Ružanović, L., Sudar, N., Tvrtković, N., Jalžić, B. & Malenica Čepelak, M. (2022) The hidden animal life of Barać Caves. Karlovac, Javna ustanova za upravljanje zaštićenim prirodnim vrijednostima na području općine Rakovica.

• Jalžić, B., Čuković Malenica, T., Mihoci, T., Bedek, J., Bilandžija, H., Bregović, P., Dražina, T., Jalžić, V., Komerički, A., Kovač Konrad, P., Kutleša, P., Lukić, M., Malenica Čepelak, M., Miculinić, K., Pavlek, M., Perkić, D. & Sudar, V. (2021) Caves of the island Mljet in pictures and words. Zagreb, Javna ustanova Nacionalni park Mljet ; Hrvatsko biospeleološko društvo.

• Marguš, M., Bedak, J., Dražina, T., Gracin, J., Jalžić, B., Komerički, A., Lukić, L., Marguš, D., Miculinić, K., Mihelčić, G., Ozimec, R. & Pavlek, M. (2013) Speleological guide to Krka National Park. Šibenik, Nacionalni park Krka.

• Marguš, D., Barišić, T., Bedek, J., Dražina, T., Gracin, J., Hamidović, D., Jalžić, B., Komerički, A., Lukić, M., Marguš, M., Menđušić, M., Miculinić, K., Mihelčić, G., Ozimec, R. & Pavlek, M. (2012) Underground secrets. Šibenik, JU NP Krka.

• Ozimec, R., Bedek, J., Gottstein, S., Jalžić, B., Slapnik, R., Štamol, V., Bilandžija, H., Dražina, T., Kletečki, E., Komerički, A., Lukić, M. & Pavlek, M. (2009) Red book of Croatian cave dwelling fauna. Zagreb, Ministarstvo kulture, Državni zavod za zaštitu prirode, Republika Hrvatska.

Journal articles

Scientific and review papers

• Mammola, S., Pavlek, M., Huber, B., Isaia, M., Ballarin, F., Tolve, M., Čupić, I., Hesselberg, T., Lunghi, E., Mouron, S., Graco-Roza, C. & Cardoso, P. (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data, 9 (1), 236, 13 doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01316-3.

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• Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Arabesky, V., Barrales-Alcalá, D., Barrion-Dupo, A., Benamú, M., Bird, T., Bogomolova, M., Cardoso, P., Chatzaki, M., Cheng, R., Chu, T., Classen-Rodríguez, L., Čupić, I., Dhiya’ulhaq, N., Picard, A., El-Hennawy, H., Elverici, M., Fukushima, C., Ganem, Z., Gavish-Regev, E., Gonnye, N., Hacala, A., Haddad, C., Hesselberg, T., Ho, T., Into, T., Isaia, M., Jayaraman, D., Karuaera, N., Khalap, R., Khalap, K., Kim, D., Korhonen, T., Kralj-Fišer, S., Land, H., Lin, S., Loboda, S., Lowe, E., Lubin, Y., Martínez, A., Mbo, Z., Miličić, M., Kioko, G., Nanni, V., Norma-Rashid, Y., Nwankwo, D., Painting, C., Pang, A., Pantini, P., Pavlek, M., Pearce, R., Petcharad, B., Pétillon, J., Raberahona, O., Saarinen, J., Segura-Hernández, L., Sentenská, L., Uhl, G., Walker, L., Warui, C., Wiśniewski, K., Zamani, A., Scott, C. & Chuang, A. (2022) An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Scientific data, 9 (1), 109, 12 doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6.

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• Mammola, S., Meierhofer, M., Borges, P., Colado, R., Culver, D., Deharveng, L., Delić, T., Di Lorenzo, T., Dražina, T., Ferreira, R., Fiasca, B., Fišer, C., Galassi, D., Garzoli, L., Gerovasileiou, V., Griebler, C., Halse, S., Howarth, F., Isaia, M., Johnson, J., Komerički, A., Martínez, A., Milano, F., Moldovan, O., Nanni, V., Nicolosi, G., Niemiller, M., Pallarés, S., Pavlek, M., Piano, E., Pipan, T., Sanchez‐Fernandez, D., Santangeli, A., Schmidt, S., Wynne, J., Zagmajster, M., Zakšek, V. & Cardoso, P. (2022) Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems. Biological reviews, 97 (4), 1476-1510 doi:10.1111/brv.12851.

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• (European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) Consortium) Formenti, G., Theissinger, K., Fernandes, C., Bista, I., Bombarely, A., Bleidorn, C., Ciofi, C., Crottini, A., Godoy, J., Hoglund, J., Malukiewicz, J., Mouton, A., Oomen, R., Paez, S., Palsboll, P., Pampoulie, C., Ruiz-Lopez, M., Svardal, H., Theofanopoulou, C., de Vries, J., Waldvogel, A., Zhang, G., Mazzoni, C., Jarvis, E., Balint, M., …, Ozretić, P., …, Pavlek, M., ... & Zammit, G. (2022) The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics. Trends in ecology & evolution, 37 (3), 197-202 doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.008.

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• Huber, B., Pavlek, M. & Komnenov, M. (2021) Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula. European Journal of Taxonomy, 752, 1-60 doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.752.1391.

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• Platania, L., Pavlek, M. & Arnedo, M. (2020) Testing the monophyly of the ground-dweller spider genus Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) with the description of three new species. Systematics and biodiversity, 18 (7), 688-707 doi:10.1080/14772000.2020.1776786.

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• Pavlek, M. & Mammola, S. (2020) Niche‐based processes explaining the distributions of closely related subterranean spiders. Journal of biogeography, 48 (1), 118-133 doi:10.1111/jbi.13987.

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• Vojvoda Zeljko, T., Pavlek, M., Meštrović, N. & Plohl, M. (2020) Satellite DNA‑like repeats are dispersed throughout the genome of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas carried by Helentron non‑autonomous mobile elements. Scientific reports, 10 (1), 15107, 12 doi:10.1038/s41598-020-71886-y.

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• Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Angyal, D., Balázs, G., Blick, T., Brustel, H., Carter, J., Ćurčić, S., Danflous, S., Dányi, L., Déjean, S., Deltshev, C., Elverici, M., Fernández, J., Gasparo, F., Komnenov, M., Komposch, C., Kováč, L., Kunt, K., Mock, A., Moldovan, O., Naumova, M., Pavlek, M., Prieto, C., Ribera, C., Rozwałka, R., Růžička, V., Vargovitsh, R., Zaenker, S. & Isaia, M. (2019) Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida: Araneae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e38492, 15 doi:10.3897/bdj.7.e38492.

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• Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Angyal, D., Balázs, G., Blick, T., Brustel, H., Carter, J., Ćurčić, S., Danflous, S., Dányi, L., Déjean, S., Deltshev, C., Elverici, M., Fernández, J., Gasparo, F., Komnenov, M., Komposch, C., Kováč, L., Kunt, K., Mock, A., Moldovan, O., Naumova, M., Pavlek, M., Prieto, C., Ribera, C., Rozwałka, R., Růžička, V., Vargovitsh, R., Zaenker, S. & Isaia, M. (2019) Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β-diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological sciences, 286 (1914), 1-9 doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1579.

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• Lukić, M., Delić, T., Pavlek, M., Deharveng, L. & Zagmajster, M. (2019) Distribution pattern and radiation of the European subterranean genus Verhoeffiella (Collembola, Entomobryidae). Zoologica scripta, 49 (1), 86-100 doi:10.1111/zsc.12392.

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• Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Culver, D., Deharveng, L., Ferreira, R., Fišer, C., Galassi, D., Griebler, C., Halse, S., Humphreys, W., Isaia, M., Malard, F., Martinez, A., Moldovan, O., Niemiller, M., Pavlek, M., Reboleira, A., Souza-Silva, M., Teeling, E., Wynne, J. & Zagmajster, M. (2019) Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems. Bioscience, 69 (8), 641-650 doi:10.1093/biosci/biz064.

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• Mammola, S., Cardoso, P., Ribera, C., Pavlek, M. & Isaia, M. (2017) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research, 56 (3), 301-316 doi:10.1111/jzs.12201.

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• Pavlek, M. & Carles, R. (2017) Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 262, 1-27 doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.262.

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• Andersen, T., Baranov, V., Hagenlund, L., Ivković, M., Kvifte, G. & Pavlek, M. (2016) Blind flight? A new Troglobiotic Orthoclad (Diptera, Chironomidae) from the Lukina Jama – Trojama cave in Croatia. PLoS One, 11 (4), 1-15 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152884.

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• Pavlek, M., Gelfand, Y., Plohl, M. & Meštrović, N. (2015) Genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats in Tribolium castaneum genome reveals abundant and highly dynamic tandem repeat families with satellite DNA features in euchromatic chromosomal arms. Dna research, 22 (6), 387-401 doi:10.1093/dnares/dsv021.

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• Meštrović, N., Mravinac, B., Pavlek, M., Vojvoda-Zeljko, T., Šatović, E. & Plohl, M. (2015) Structural and functional liaisons between transposable elements and satellite DNAs. Chromosome research, 23 (3), 583-596 doi:10.1007/s10577-015-9483-7.

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• Meštrović, N., Pavlek, M., Car, A., Castagnone-Sereno, P., Abad, P. & Plohl, M. (2013) Conserved DNA Motifs, Including the CENP-B Box- like, Are Possible Promoters of Satellite DNA Array Rearrangements in Nematodes. PLoS ONE, 8 (6), e6732-1 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067328.

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• Pavlek, M. & Ozimec, R. (2009) New cave-dwelling species of genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) for Croatian fauna. Natura Croatica : periodicum Musei historiae naturalis Croatici, 18 (1), 29-37.

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2021 ERGA (The European Reference Genome Atlas), country council representative

2019 Systematics association

2019 International Biogeography Society

2017 Research Institute of Biodiversity (IRBio - Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat), University of Barcelona

2017 CAWEB (European cave spiders’ network)

2016 International Society for Subterranean Biology

2015 International Society of Arachnology

2014 European Society of Arachnology

2012 Croatian Arachnological Society Narcis Damin

2003 Croatian Biospeleological Society (member, vice-president)

2010 - 2014 Society for Experimental Biology