EDUCATION
Since 2020
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
2018 - 2020
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland
2014 - 2017
University of Zagreb, Croatia
2010 - 2014
XV. High school (MIOC), Zagreb, Croatia
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 2020
Assist-o, Switzerland & USA (Co-Founder & Board Member)
2019
National University of Singapore (Visiting Researcher)
2019 – 2020
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Research Assistant)
2018
University of California San Diego, USA (Visiting Researcher)
2017 - 2018
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland + Technical University Vienna, Austria (Internship)
2016
D. E. Shaw & Co., London, UK & New York City, USA
2015
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Research Internship)
2014 - 2017
University of Zagreb, Croatia (Student assistant, Physics competitions)
2014
Mully Children’s Family Orphanage, Kenya (Volunteer work)
Until 2015
Music performance and recording of CDs
COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
2019
1st place at the IBM Qiskit Camp Europe Hackathon 2019
2018 – 2020
EPFL Excellence fellowship
2017 – 2020
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
2014
Award for the best high school graduate in Croatia in 2014 (out of ~40 000 students)
2014
Bronze medal at the 45th International Physics Olympiad 2014 (Kazakhstan)
2014
1st place at the Croatian National Physics Competition
2013
Bronze medal at the 44th International Physics Olympiad 2013 (Denmark)
2013
1st place at the Croatian Championship in Triathlon
2012 - 2016
City of Zagreb scholarship
2012
Bronze medal at the 45th International Physics Olympiad 2012 (Estonia)
COMPUTER SKILLS
LANGUAGES
English
Full professional proficiency
German
Bilingual proficiency
Croatian
Bilingual proficiency
French
Elementary proficiency
SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES
* The following articles are in Croatian, so You might need to use Google Translate to understand them.
Dnevnik nove TV (the most watched news program in Croatia)
Dobro jutro, Hrvatska (the most watched morning program in Croatia)