Date of Birth: January 5, 1971
Place of Birth: Split, Croatia
Education:
University of Zagreb, BSc, 1995
University of Zagreb, MSc, 2000
University of Zagreb, PhD, 2005
Contact Address
Ivan-Krešimir Svetec, PhD
Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
University of Zagreb
Department of Biochemical Engineering
Laboratory for Biology and Microbial Genetics
Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb
Republic of Croatia
Phone: +385 1 48 36 013
E-Mail: ivan.svetec@medils.hr
Ivan-Krešimir Svetec has been a group leader of the Genetics of death in yeast research group at MedILS since 2007.
After finishing his high school in Split, Croatia, he received undergraduate degree in Food Technology and Biotechnology from University of Zagreb (Croatia) in 1995. His thesis work involved studying the transformation of yeast with plasmids containing heterologous termini with prof. Zoran Zgaga. His master thesis done in the same group conserned the influence of short heterologous sequences on plasmid integration in yeast and was finished in 2000.
Ivan-Krešimir Svetec continued his research in prof. Zgaga’s group at University of Zagreb and completed his PhD work in 2005 on the study of influence of palindromes on homologous recombination and stability of the yeast genome. During his PhD, he has been a teaching assistant on two undergraduate courses and has co-supervised 9 B.Sc. thesis.
Currently, Ivan-Krešimir Svetec is teaching at the University of Zagreb as an Assistant professor on three undergraduate courses. His scientific interests cover broad area of molecular genetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and non-Saccharomyces yeasts, as well as bioinformatic analysis of biological data.
Ivan-Krešimir Svetec was a recepient of the Rector’s award for the best student work done on Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb for academic year 1993/1994, Award of the Biotechnical Foundation of Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in 1999, and the Annual award of The Society of Professors and Scientists in Zagreb for young scientist and artists in 2005.