Martina Knežević

Associate Professor at the University Department of Psychology of the Catholic University of Croatia (Zagreb). She obtained her MA and PhD at the University of Zagreb, where in 2013 she defended her thesis Executive functions and neural electrophysiological changes during young adulthood.

After graduation, she worked as a research assistant and then a postdoc at the Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb.  She received Huygens Scholarship for Excellent Students from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and a scholarship for doctoral students from the Croatian Science Foundation for the project Cognitive Development in Late Adolescence: Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging in academic year 2009/2010, which she spent as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Brain and Learning at the VU University Amsterdam, NL. As a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar, she worked at the Spatio-Temporal Brain Imaging Lab at the San Diego State University in California, USA on a project Effects of binge drinking on cognitive functions in young adults: A multimodal approach.

She started working at the Catholic University of Croatia in 2018.