Tamara Holjevac Grgurić
Full professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Catholic University of Croatia. She graduated and received her master's degree from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the University of Zagreb. In 2006, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic of Modification and stability of thermoplastic blends with styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene block copolymer.
Before joining the Catholic University of Croatia, she worked at the Faculty of Metallurgy, University of Zagreb, where she was elected assistant professor in 2009 and associate professor in 2016. She had scientific training in the Laboratory of Advanced Polymers and Optimized Materials at the University of North Texas, USA, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. At the Catholic University of Croatia, she teaches courses at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The field of research focuses on the design and characterization of innovative materials in polymer and metal matrices, including those with shape-memory effects, biodegradable materials, and nano-/microcomposites, with an emphasis on their applications in bioengineering. Classic and additive material processing technologies. 3D-printing and electrospinning of biomedical materials. Characterization of materials, including techniques such as thermal analysis (DSC, TG, STA, DMA, LFA, DIL), thermodynamic modeling, and the application of Thermo-Calc in predicting phase equilibria, as well as determining mechanisms and kinetic parameters of the process.
COURSES:
Chemistry (Module: Cells and tissues)
Biomedical materials
Advanced biomedical materials
Computer simulations in engineering
Environment and sustainable development
PROJECTS:
Development of innovative antibacterial material for hip endoprosthesis, Targeted scientific research, NPOO.C3.2.R3-I1.04.0324, leader
Development and Characterization of Innovative Shape Memory Alloys Cu-Al-Mn-Me (Me= Ag, Au, Ce), international project, leader
Development of New Shape Memory Alloys, international project, leader
Research into innovative metal micro-/nanomaterials, leader
HRZZ-IP-2014-09-3405 Designing of microstructure and functional properties of Cu-based Shape Memory Alloys
HRZZ-IP-O6-2016-6878 Custom Tailored Fibrous Scaffold Prototype for Tissue Cells via Combined Electrospinning
VIRTULAB – (KK.01.1.1.02.0022), OP Competitiveness and Cohesion
Centre for Foundry -SIMET (KK.01.1.1.02.), OP Competitiveness and Cohesion
Waste and the Sun in the Service of Photocatalytic Degradation of Micropollutants in Water (OS-Mi), OP Competitiveness and Cohesion
Manufacturing and heat treatment technologies of steel semi-products for the automotive industry, international project
Projects: MZO 124-1241565-1537; MZO 125-1252971-2578; MZO 0125059; MZO 0125013
COST actions: COST CA 22143; CA 20101; CA 18202; CA 19118; CA 15107; MP 1206; MP 0902
