His Date and place of birth  is May 2, 1961, at Varaždin, Croatia. His research and other projects are: 2014-2015: principal investigator of Croatian-Slovenian bilateral project: “Synthesis and microscopic characterization of metallic nanoparticles designed for the application in biomedicine” 2014– 2015: BICRO project "Bioreactor-based engineering of bone tissue using novel system of differentiation" 2012-2013: principal investigator of Croatian-German bilateral project: „The influence of metal properties on nanoparticle-cell-interaction: cellular effects induced by noble metal nanoparticles” 2010-2011: principal investigator of Croatian-German bilateral project: „Nanoparticle cell interaction: Molecular signaling events induced by synthesized new nanomaterials“ 2009-2010: researcher on the Croatian-Serbian bilateral project: „Metal oxides – structural and magnetic properties“

chemistry of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles, application of nanoparticles in biomedicine