Curriculum vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name
Address
Telephone
E-mail
Nationality
PRUSINA, IVANA
ĆIRA CARIĆA 4, 20 000 DUBROVNIK, CROATIA
Fixed: +385 20445 880
ivana.prusina@unidu.hr
Croatian
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Dates (from – to)
• Name and address of employer
• Occupation or position held
• Main activities and responsibilities
From October 2007 - current
University of Dubrovnik, Branitelja Dubrovnika 29, 20000 Dubrovnik, +385 20445700
Assistant / young researcher
Responsible for the practical part of the lessons, working with students in the laboratory and in
the field, involvement in scientific projects and research, work on my PhD project
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Dates (from – to)
From 2007 - current
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
University of Split, University of Dubrovnik and Institute for Oceanography and Fisheries, Split,
Croatia
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
Interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in the applied marine sciences
• Level in national classification
(if appropriate)
• Dates (from – to)
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
• Type of education
• Dates (from – to)
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
• Type of education
• Dates (from – to)
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
• Type of education
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences (to be awarded)
From 5th to 19th of July 2012
Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine
Research (AWI), Sylt, Germany
Summer School “Challenges in Changing Coastal Seas”
From 18th of September to 21st of September 2011
University of Florence, European Science Foundation and AWI Institute, Dp. of Integrative
Physiology
UniFi Workshop “The effects of climate change on vulnerable life traits of aquatic ectotherms:
towards an integrated approach”
From October 2009 to August 2010
University of Palermo, Department for Earth and Marine Sciences, Laboratory of Experimental
Biology and Behaviour
Diverse techniques in the field of experimental biology: scope for growth, non-invasive heart
beat measurements, determining age and growth, meta-analysis; setting up experiments on the
field and in the laboratory
Scholarship for doctoral students awarded by the Croatian Science Foundation
• Dates (from – to)
• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
•Title of qualification awarded
• Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
From 2001 to 2006
University of Split, Center for Marine Studies
Graduate engineer in Marine Biology and Ecology (pre-bologna, equivalent to bologna Master)
wide range of biological investigations from diversity of marine organisms to their distribution,
characteristics, mutual relations and interactions with marine environment
PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
MOTHER TONGUE
CROATIAN
OTHER LANGUAGES
• Reading skills
• Writing skills
• Verbal skills
ENGLISH
C2, PROFICIENT USER
C2, PROFICIENT USER
C2, PROFICIENT USER
• Reading skills
• Writing skills
• Verbal skills
ITALIAN
B2, INDEPENDENT USER
B1, INDEPENDENT USER
B1, INDEPENDENT USER
• Reading skills
• Writing skills
• Verbal skills
FRENCH
B1, INDEPENDENT USER
A2, BASIC USER
A2, BASIC USER
SOCIAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
TECHNICAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
ANNEX1:
TEAM WORK, ABILITY TO ADAPT TO DIFFERENT WORKING ENVIRONMENTS GAINED THROUGH MY WORK
EXPERIENCE ABROAD, GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS
GOOD COMMAND OF MICROSOFT OFFICE TOOLS (WORD, EXCEL AND POWERPOINT) AND STATISTICAL
PACKAGES STATISTICA AND MINITAB
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Sarà, G.; Prusina, I.; Sarà, A.; Angel, D.; Glamuzina, B.; Nitzan, T.; Freeman, S.; Rinaldi, A.; Montalto, V.; Lo Martire,
M.; Arculeo, M.; Arizza, V.; Gianguzza, P.; De Pirro, M.; Lo Brutto, S.; Parroco, A.M.; De Cantis, S.; Ferrante, M.; Helmuth,
B.; Murray, J.; Williams, G.A.; Milanese, M. (2012, accepted). The impact of climate change on Mediterranean intertidal
communities: losses in coastal ecosystem integrity and services. Regional Environmental Change.
2. Ezgeta-Balić, D.; Rinaldi, A.; Peharda, M.; Prusina, I.; Montalto, V.; Niceta, N.; Sarà, G. An energy budget for the
subtidal bivalve Modiolus barbatus (Mollusca) at different temperatures. Marine environmental research. 71 (2011); 79-85.
3. Matić-Skoko, S.; Tutman, P.; Dulčić, J.; Prusina, I.; Đođo, Ž.; Pavličević, J.; Glamuzina, B. Growth pattern of the
endemic Neretvan roach, Rutilus basak (Heckel, 1843) in the Hutovo Blato wetland. Journal of Applied Ichthyology.
27(2011), 3; 813 – 819.
4. Dulčić, J.; Tutman, P.; Prusina, I.; Tomšić, S.; Dragičević, B.; Hasković, E.; Glamuzina, B. Length-weight relationships
for six endemic freshwater fishes from Hutovo blato wetland (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 25
(2009), 4; 499-500.
ANNEX2:
CONFERENCES
1.
Prusina, I., Sará, G., Arizza, V., Russo, D., De Pirro, M., Glamuzina, B., Williams A. Gray (2012) Adaptations to
thermal variation in two Mediterranean limpets - cardiac response and haemocyte lysosomal stability. Book of
abstract, International Conference on Marine and Coastal Ecosystems (MarCoastEcos 2012): increasing knowledge
for a sustainable conservation and integrated management, 25-28 April 2012, Tirana. Faculty of Natural Sciences,
2012, Tirana, Albania. Pp. 153.
2. Prusina, I., Sara’, G., Arizza, V., De Pirro, M., Glamuzina, B., Williams, A. Gray. (2011) Heat shock protein (Hsp70)
expression in two congeneric Mediterranean limpets – how much is too much stress? Book of abstract from the 46th
European Marine Biology Symposium. Travizi, A., Iveša, Lj., Fafanđel, M. (ur.) Rovinj, Institute Ruđer Bošković,
pp.104.
3. Prusina, I., Sara’, G., Arizza, V., De Pirro, M., Glamuzina, B., Williams, A. Gray. 2011. Heat shock protein (Hsp70)
expression and haemolymph osmolality in two congeneric Mediterranean limpets – how much is too much stress?
Proceedings of the workshop The effects of climate change on vulnerable life traits of aquatic ectotherms: towards an
integrated approach. Bremerhaven, Germany. Pp.8.
4. Prusina, I., Sarà, G., Giaramita, F.T., De Pirro, M., Glamuzina, B., Williams, A.G., Arizza, V. (2011) Valutazione dello
stress da emersione e da riscaldamento in due specie di patelle mediterranee. In: Abstract book from the 72°
Congresso dell'Unione Zoologica Italiana. 5 – 8.09.2011. Bologna, Italy.
5. Prusina, I; Rinaldi, A; Glamuzina, B; Sara', G. (2010) Energy status snapshot of three Mediterranean soft bottom
bivalve species. Proceedings of IV Congresso Lagunet 2010 / Marsala, Italy, 27-30 October 2010.
6. Prusina, I; Tutman, P; Glamuzina, B. (2009) Morphological and meristical properties of endemic Neretvan rudd,
Scardinius plotizza Heckel & Kner, 1858 (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae) from the Hutovo Blato wetland, Neretva River
basin, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 13th European congress of ichthyology / Kontautas, Antanas (ur.). Klaipeda :
Klaipedos Universitetas, 95-96.
7. Prusina, I. (2009) The structure of limpet (Gastropoda, Patellidae) populations on two locations in SE Adriatic.
Proceedings of the INTERMED project. Palermo, 9-10 March 2009.
8. Bratoš, A; Prusina, I; Glamuzina, B. Seasonal changes of molluscan fauna in the Neretva River estuary (East
Adriatic). Proceedings of the INTERMED project. Palermo, 9-10 March 2009.
9. Milanese, M; Angel, D; Bracciali, C; De Cantis, S; Ferrante, M; Freeman, S; Glamuzina, B; La Parroco, A; Lo Martire,
M; Prusina, I; Rinaldi, A; Sara’, A; Sara’, G. (2009) INTERMED: The impact of climate change on Mediterranean
intertidal communities: losses in coastal ecosystem integrity and services. Proceedings of Circle Final and Outlock
Conference, Wien, Austria, 9-10 September 2009.
10. Zovko, N; Prusina, I; Đođo, Ž; Glamuzina, B. (2007) Effects of the recent hydrological changes on abundance and
spawning of commercially interesting fish species in Hutovo blato wetlands. / Endangered and endemic species in the
watersheds of the rivers Neretva, Trebišnjica and Morača. / Skaramuca, Boško ; Dulčić, Jakov (ur.). Dubrovnik,
Sveučilište u Dubrovniku; EastWest Institute, 137-140.