CURRICULUM VITAE
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
First name:
ROBERTO
Family name:
ANTOLOVIĆ
Date of birth:
May 25, 1961.
Place of birth:
Koper, Republic of Slovenia.
Citizen:
CROATIA
Home address:
Jakova Gotovca 1,
10430 Samobor
CROATIA
Employee of:
University of Rijeka.
Radmile Matejčić 2, Rijeka, Croatia
Hhone: +385951/584554
E-mail: roberto.antolovic@biotech.uniri.hr
EDUCATION
1968-1976
Elementary school in Zagreb, Croatia
1976-1978
Classical grammar-schools in Zagreb, Croatia
1978-1980
Medical high school in Zagreb, Croatia
May 1980
Leaving examination of the medical high school in Zagreb
(Exam note: Excellent)
1980-1981
Compulsory military service
1987
State License and Diploma to practice a veterinary
medicine assigned by the Faculty of veterinary medicine,
University of Zagreb
1989
Enrolment at the Faculty of veterinary medicine of JustusLiebig-University in Giessen, Germany
1991
Promotion at the Faculty of veterinary medicine of JustusLiebig-University. Degree awarded "Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine". Note: Magna cum laude
1991
Acknowledgement of doctoral thesis acquired at the
Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen by the Faculty of
veterinary medicine of the University of Zagreb. Degree
awarded: PhD
1996
Assistant professor on the University of Zagreb
2006
Professor on the University of Zagreb
2009
Professor on the University of Rijeka
COURSES AND TRAININGS
1987
FEBS student summer fellowship. Training in biochemistry
at the Institute of biochemistry and endocrinology on the
Faculty of veterinary medicine of Justus-Liebig-University in
Giessen, Germany
1994
EMBO fellowship allowed scientific collaboration on the
definition of the cardiac binding site on Na/K-ATPase with
the Institute of experimental and clinical pharmacology and
toxicology of the Medical faculty in Lausanne, Switzerland
1995
ICRO - Membrane Channels and Transporters Advance
Course. Budapest and Szeged, Hungary
PERSONAL SKILS
2001
Managing people. Management Centre Europe. Zagreb,
Croatia
2001
Practical Implications on Patenting Inventions in
Pharmaceutical Industry. Educational Centre PLIVA
Zagreb, Croatia
2004
Effective communication and Distribution of Ideas.
PLIVA LEARNING CENTRE. Zagreb Croatia
2005
Business Creativity. PLIVA LEARNING CENTRE. Zagreb
Croatia
2005
Project Management. Erasmus University. Rotterdam
Nederland.
2005
Personal Effectiveness. N Vision Learning solutions
GmbH. Germany.
2006
Education and Training in Radiation Protection for
Radiation Protection Officers.
Certificate from State
Office for Radiation Protection. Croatia.
AFFILIATIONS
2009
Professor
of
Biochemistry
on
Department
of
Biotechnology, University of Rijeka
2007 - 2009
Senior Team Leader field biochemistry of the GSK
Research Centre, Zagreb Ltd.
2006 - 2007
Director of Biology department of the GSK Research
Centre, Zagreb Ltd.
2004 – 2006
Global Director of Biology of the PLIVA Research
Institute d.o.o. Menagement of all biological activities in the
process of drug discovery. Planning of the budget and
capital investment. Collaboration with the project program
leaders of the drug discovery processes. Implementation of
the high content screening – monitoring of early sings of
compound toxicity in the tumor cell lines.
2002 – 2003:
Director of the anti-infective research area. Steering of
the anti-infective research area. Anti-infective projects
leader on the selection of the new potent antimicrobial
agents in microbiology and mycology. Leading of scientific
group in an international collaboration with Walther Read
(Washington USA) on development of new antimalarial
compounds. Experimental work on the mode of action for
selected antifungal candidate. International collaboration
with the GSK on a number of anti-infective projects
1999 – 2002:
PLIVA Research institute. Project leader of the tyrosine
phosphorilation
- therapeutic area inflammation and
immunology. Work on that project included planning
organizing
and
coordinating
activities
form
primary
screening of the compound library and selection of the lead
to the lead optimization through the structure activity
relationship. Coordinator of biology department of the
therapeutic area inflammation and immunology.
1996-1998
Assistant professor on the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
of Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
Education activity: lecture and exam students of Veterinary
medicine in biochemistry. Project leader of the team
worked on the characterization of the specific cardiac
glycoside binding proteins from human and bovine blood
and its role in the treatment of the heart failure.
1992-1996
Post doc. position in Giessen, Germany,
Justus-
Liebig-University
Activity: Teaching biochemistry students of the veterinary
medicine faculty and supervision of advance courses in
biochemistry for the students of the Faculty of Natural
Sciences of the Justus-Liebig-University. Project leader on
the investigation of the cardiac glycoside receptor its
isolation and characterization of endogenous cardiac
glycosides from mammals.
1988-1992
PhD position on the Institute of Biochemistry and
Endocrinology of Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen,
Germany.
Position: Research Assistant;
Activity: Full-time Assistant of Biochemistry on the Faculty
of Veterinary Medicine. Research of the cell physiology and
biochemistry according to the topology and enzyme activity
of the Na+/K+-ATPase
1987-1988
Assistant position on the Institute of Biology and
Pathology of Poultry in Zagreb. Nutrition and pathology of
the poultry
MEMBERSHIPS
Member of HDBMB “Croatian Society of Biochemistry and
Molecular biology.
Member of the Croatian Osteoporosis Society
Member of Croatian Microbiological Society
REWARDS
01. 05. 1985:
Reward of Zagreb University for the best student scientific
work.
07. 07. 1994:
"Karl-Pfizer-Nachwuchsförderpreiss" reward of the JustusLiebig-University Giessen.
2001:
Reward of PLIVA d.d for the organizing of the movement
and set up of the new Research Institute.
2007:
GSK Bronz Award for the data base integration to the GSK
data base system.
2008:
GSK Silver Award for the work for the EHS implementation
in GSK Research Centre Zagreb according to the GSK
standards.
PC Experience
Experience in web based applications.
Strong skills in wor d processing (Micrososft Office)
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: fluent in English and German
Rijeka, 16. 09.2013.