Ana Matešković, mag.ing.agr. was employed as an assistant at the Department for Applied Sciences of the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, within the project “New methods in olive pests controlling using plant volatiles” LoVeFly KK.01.1.1.04.0002. Project is co-financed by EU funds from the Regional Development Fund “Together to EU funds, as part of the Operational Program Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020. She graduated in 2014 at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zagreb, with a degree in Phytomedicine. After graduation, Ana was actively working in the field of plant protection, professionally training for one year in the public company “Parks and Horticulture” Ltd. and volunteering for three months at the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation working as an expert associate in the field of plant protection. Her field of research will be to investigate the effects of plant volatile compounds on attracting the most significant olive pests.

Ana, welcome!