Marta Čagalj

Teaching Assistant at the University Department of Sociology, where she graduated in Sociology and enrolled in the PhD programme in 2024. During her studies, she gained professional experience in marketing, media, and journalism, and received multiple departmental awards and the City of Zagreb Excellence Scholarship. Before joining the University, she worked in Human Resources Development at dm drogerie-markt, with a professional focus on sustainability.

As a recipient of the CREATE Toolbox Scholarship, she completed a study stay at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – Angelicum in Rome, including visits to international institutions accredited to the Holy See.

In 2026, as one of three Croatian recipients of the German Bundestag’s International Parliamentary Scholarship, she spent five months in Berlin representing Croatia. Through a traineeship in the office of Christian Haase, she gained experience in public policy analysis, legislative procedures, diplomacy, and public relations, while contributing to interparliamentary diplomacy between Germany and Croatia.