Dr. Dijana Žilić
Education
2008. Ph.D. Physics (Solid state physics), Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
2002. B.Sc. Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
1995. High school, Zagreb
1990. Primary school, Konjic (BiH)
Projects
PI of Croatian-German bilateral project (MZO-DAAD) (2026-2027): "Influence of ligand exchange on magnetic properties of manganese metal-organic frameworks"; PI of German side dr. Alexey Alfonsov (Leibniz IFW-Dresden)
PI of Croatian Science Foundation research project IP-2022-10-9292: "Molecular magnetism in advanced solid and soft materials"
PI of Croatian-German bilateral project (MZO-DAAD) (2019-2021): "Magneto-structural correlations in molecular magnetic complexes studied by electron spin resonance spectroscopy"; PI of German side dr. Yulia Krupskaya (Leibniz IFW-Dresden)
PI of Postdoc project of Croatian Science Foundation (2012-2013): "Study of molecule magnets (polynuclear transition metal complexes) by HF-EPR spectroscopy" at Leibniz IFW-Dresden, Germany (group of dr. Vladislav Kataev)
PI of project supported by "Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts" (2011): "Kristali organskih stabilnih radikala kao EPR probe na površini jednomolekulskog magneta Mn12-acetata"
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Associate at HRZZ-project IP-2018-01-3168 (2018-2023): "Elucidating the importance of spin-spin interactions as a tool for new approaches in ESR studies of materials"
Associate at Croatian-German bilateral project (MZO-DAAD) (2021-2022): "New generation of magnetic MOF composites based on controllable confinement of selected endofullerenes"
Associate at HRZZ-project HrZZ-UIP-2014-09-9775 (2015-2018): "Influence of Magnetic Anisotropy on Quantum Spin Systems"
Associate at HRZZ-project 1108 (2014-2018): "Low-temperature molecular dynamics of systems exhibiting lattice disorder probed by ESR"
Associate at NATO-project The Science for Peace and Security Programme (2016-2019): "Engineering silicon carbide for enhanced borders and ports security"
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2022.-2026. COST Action CA21144 (MC member) "Superconducting nanodevices and quantum materials for coherent manipulation (SUPERQUMAP)"
Principal Investigators: Hermann Suderow (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
2016.-2020. COST Action CA15128 (MC member) "Molecular Spintronics (MOLSPIN)" Principal Investigators: Eugenio Coronado (University of Valencia, Spain)
2014.-2018. COST Action CM1305 (MC member) "Explicit Control Over Spin-states in Technology and Biochemistry (ECOSTBio)" Principal Investigators: Marcel Swart (University of Girona, Spain)
Awards and Achievements
Awards of RBI general director and Division of Physical chemistry for a few best articles.
2019. and 2021. Financial support of the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) for organization scientific meeting "Solid State Science & Research 2019" given to organizers D. Žilić i K. Užarević.
2011. Financial support of the Foundation of HAZU for the project: "Kristali organskih stabilnih radikala kao EPR probe na površini jednomolekulskog magneta Mn12-acetata"
The award for one of the three best student works at the conference PrimMath(2001) (1. znanstveno-stručni skup Programski sustav Mathematica u znanosti, tehnologiji i obrazovanju) 2001., Zagreb
Scholarship of CSF (California).
Classes
2018./2019.- Lecturer for the Doctoral study course “EPR spectroscopy”, at Physical Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
2010./2011. Laboratory Exercises in "Introductory Laboratory Exercises in Physics 2", Undergraduate Study of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
2002./2003.-2008./2009. Laboratory Exercises in "Physics and Biophysics" ("Medical physics", "Physics and biophysics for students of veterinary medicine"), Undergraduate Study, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb
Featured Publications
Vujević, L.; Talajić, G.; MacMillan, F.; Popov, A. A.; Kveder, M.; Karadeniz, B.*; Užarević, K.*; Žilić, D.* Inorg. Chem., 65 (2026), 14; 7603-7612. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04870
Torić, F.; Androš Dubraja, L.; Herak, M.; Novosel, N.; Petreska, I.; Molcanov, K.*; Žilić, D.* Dalton Trans., 55 (2026), 3840-3852, 13. doi: 10.1039/d5dt02533h
Vujević, L.; Karadeniz, B.*; Cindro, N.; Krajnc, A.; Mali, G.; Mazaj, M.; Avdoshenko, S. M.; Popov, A. A.; Žilić, D.*; Užarević, K.*; Ilakovac Kveder, M.* Chem. Sci., 14, 9389 - 9399 (2023).
Muratović, S.; Martinez, V.; Karadeniz, B.; Pajić, D.; Brekalo, I.; Arhangelskis, M.; Mazaj, M.; Mali, G.; Etter, M.; Friščić, T.; Krupskaya, Y.; Kataev, V.; Žilić, D.*; Užarević, K.*, Inorg. Chem., 61, 18181-18192 (2022).
Garg, N., Goriya, Y., Manojveer, S., Muratović, S., Pajić, D., Cetina, M., Petreska, I., Krupskaya, Y., Kataev, V., Johnson, M.*, Wendt, O.* & Žilić, D.* Dalton Trans., 51 (6), 2338-2345 (2022).
Muratović, S.; Karadeniz, B.; Stolar, T.; Lukin, S.; Halasz, I.; Herak, M.; Mali, G.; Krupskaya, Y.; Kataev, V.; Žilić, D.*; Užarević, K.* J. Mater. Chem. C 8, 7132-7142 (2020).
Smokrović, K.; Muratović, S.; Karadeniz, B.; Užarević, K.; Žilić, D.*; Đilović, I.* Cryst. Growth Des., 20 (2020), 4; 2415-2423
Karadeniz, B.; Žilić, D.; Huskić, I.; Germann, L. S.; Fidelli, A. M.; Muratović, S.; Lončarić, I.; Etter, M.; Dinnebier, R. E.; Barišić, D.; Cindro, N.; Islamoglu, T.; Farha, O. K.; Friščić, T.; Užarević, K. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 19214-19120 (2019).
Androš Dubraja, L., Jurić, M., Popović, J., Pajić, D., Krupskaya, Y., Kataev, V., Büchner, B., Žilić, D.*, Dalton Trans. 47, 3992-4000 (2018).
Žilić, D.*, Maity D., Cetina M., Molčanov, K., Džolić, Z., Herak M.* ChemPhysChem 18, 2397-2408 (2017).
Žilić, D.*, Molčanov, K., Jurić, M., Habjanič, J., Rakvin, B., Krupskaya, Y., Kataev, V., Wurmehl, S., Buechner, B. Polyhedron. 126, 120-126 (2017).
Žilić, D., Rakvin, B., Milić, D., Pajić, D., Đilović, I., Cametti, M., Džolić, Z. Dalton Trans., 43, 11877-11887 (2014).
Žilić, D., Rakvin, B., Dalal, N. S. J. Appl. Phys., 110, 093909-1-093909-5 (2011).
Žilić, D.*, Pajić, D., Jurić, M., Molčanov K., Rakvin B., Planinić, P., Zadro, K. J. Magn. Reson., 207, 34-41 (2010).
Membership in professional associations / societies
Croatian Physical Society.
German Physical Society.
International EPR Society.
Mentor of David Kučera-Čavara at Doctoral study in Chemistry at Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.
Mentor of Lucija Vujević at Doctoral study at Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology. PhD thesis defended 08.01.2025.
Mentor of Senada Muratović at Doctoral study in Chemistry at Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. PhD thesis defended 15.07.2022.
Mentor of Diploma thesis of Marta Šimunović (with prof. B. Prugovečki) at Depatment of Chemistry at Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Graduation thesis defended 26.02.2021.
Review Editor for “Porous Crystalline Networks” and "Experimental Results".
Reviewer for
Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ)
Quantera 2025
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
journals: "Materials Horizons”, “Nanoscale”, "Nanoscale Advances", "Scientific Reports", Polyhedron, "Molecules" , “Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals”, “Acta Physica Polonica”, "Nanoscale Advances", "Journal of the American Ceramic Society".
Member of local organizing committee of international "Solid-State Science & Research" meeting 2023., 2021., 2019. and 2017. years.
Web editor for Laboratory for Magnetic Resonances and Division of Physical Chemistry (until 2024).