SiC2024 ARCHIVE

Programme & Book of Abstracts

Take a look at the SiC2024 Conference Report, Book of Abstracts and Programme Book:

SiC2024 PLENARY LECTURERS

INVITED LECTURERS

  • ROSALBA BELLINI, University of Applied Sciences, InHolland Amsterdam
    Unveiling Next-Gen Chemistry Education: Curriculum Innovations at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
  • ZVJEZDANA FINDRIK BLAŽEVIĆ, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • Development of industrial biotransformations by applying chemical engineering approach
  • ALEKSANDRA MARŠAVELSKI, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Harnessing Ancestral Sequences to Improve the Solubility of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes
  • AGATA MICHALSKA, University of Warsaw, Poland
    Adding colour to ion sensing in solutions 
  • FRANCESCO MUTTI, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Exploring New Horizons in Biocatalysis: Leveraging Enzyme Engineering for Organic Synthesis, Biosensors Applications and Polymer Characterization
  • MIRJANA PEJIĆ BACH, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Roadmap to Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry: From Baby Steps to Deployment
  • IVO RIETVELD, University of Rouen Normandy, France
    Chiral resolution, kinetics and thermodynamics in preferential crystallisation
  • NAOKI SUGIMOTO, Konan University Kobe, Japan
    “To B or not to B” in Nucleic Acids Chemistry
  • MATILDA ŠPRUNG, University of Split, Croatia
    New generation of quaternary ammonium compounds: The potent amphiphiles in combating bacterial resistance
  • HRVOJ VANČIK, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Graph theoretical representation of chemical systems
  • IVANA VINKOVIĆ VRČEK, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Croatia
    Selenium nanoparticles as drug delivery system for levodopa in the treatment Parkinson’s disease – in vitro evaluation

    Winner of the “Leopold Ružička” award:
  • TOMISLAV STOLAR, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
    Mechanochemistry: Fundamentals to Application

SECTION LECTURERS

  • Mirna Petković Didović: Nitroxoline: The Power of Chelation
  • Adrianna Szmulewicz: Chiral versus Achiral Assemblies in Multi-Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Polymerization of Tetra-substituted Azobenzene Dye
  • Vladimir Stilinović: Bis(tribenzylammonium) Fluoride Receptor – Interplay of Strong and Weak Hydrogen Bonds Forming a Supramolecular Capsule
  • Jurica Novak: Innovative Approaches in Drug Design: From Molecular Dynamics to Neural Networks
  • Sara Krivačić: Automated Production of Solid-Contact Ion-Selective Electrodes: Polymeric Membrane Drying Assessment
  • Dominik Korol: Electroactive Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Selective Sensing
  • Stjepan Dolić: Design and Characterisation of Perovskite Solar Cells
  • Mehmet Mervan Çakar: Harnessing the Power of PEP-Dependent Lyases: Kinetic Characterization and Model-based Optimization for N-Acetylneuraminic Acid Synthesis  
  • Marin Liović: Calorimetric Characterization of the “Golden Rain Experiment” in “Drought Season”
  • Antonija Ožegović: Tuning Chirality in Functional Assemblies: From Liquid Crystals to Supramolecular Structures in Water
  • Maria Kolympadi Markovic: Carbon Dioxide in the Synthesis of Organic Carbonates
  • Jurica Bauer: Teaching Chemistry in the New Bachelor “Regenerative Medicine and Technology
  • Krunoslav Užarević: Thermal Control of Milling Reactors for Advancing Preparative Mechanochemistry
  • Karlo Petrić: Designer Amphiphiles – Toward Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Systems for Organic Synthesis
  • Marija Cvetnić: Fishing in the Acetonitrile Sea: (Thio)urea-Calix[4]arenes as Anion Binders
  • Nawal El Hakawati: Calix-Based Receptors: From Fundamental Studies to Materials in Action  

SiC2024 INVITED LECTURERS

Tomislav Stolar (winner of the Leopold Ružička Award given by CCS)

SiC2022 SECTION LECTURERS

SiC2024 EVENTS

Wine Tasting by Štampar Winery

Welcome Party

Education Section & Workshops

Career Speed Dating

Pub Quiz (by AlphaChrom)

Poster Session

Lavoisier Invited Lecture

#MoreThanWater Conference Party

Conference Dinner

Wake Up Lecture

Invited Lecture – Winner of the Leopold Ružička Award

Best Poster Lecture – Winner of the Tomislav Cvitaš Award


Best moments from SiC2022
Check out our photo gallery on our Facebook Page (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4)


Supporters & Sponsors

We are thankful for our supporters & sponsors and hope to see you again at SiC2024! More information on sponsorship packages soon.

SiC2022 was organised under the auspices of:

  • Zoran Milanović, President of the Republic of Croatia
  • Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of the Republic of Croatia Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia
  • Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Croatian Academy of Engineering
  • Ruđer Bošković Institute
  • University of Zagreb
  • University North
  • Croatian Chamber of Economy Croatian Employers’ Association Croatian Engineering Association Croatian Society for Natural Sciences
  • Faculty of Science (UniZg)
  • Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology (UniZg)
  • Teacher Education and Training Agency, Croatia
  • City of Čakovec
  • City of Mursko Središće