Jagoda Šušković

Contact information

Location: Laboratory for Antibiotic, Enzyme, Probiotic and Starter Cultures Technology / Professor emeritus

Biography

Birth date: 7, November, 1955

Birth place: Klobuk, Ljubuški

Academic appointments
	Institution	Subject	Year
BSc	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	Investigation of the mutagen influence of cyanazine herbicide in microbial test -system with bacterium Salmonella typhimurium with metabolic activation	1980.
MSc	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	Influence of growth medium composition on the kinetics of production of lactic acid for food purposes	1989.
PhD	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	The growth and probiotic effect of chosen lactic acid bacteria	1996.

Work experience
Position	Institution	Year
Assistant	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	1980.
Senior assistant	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	1989.
Assistant professor	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	1997.
Associated professor	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	2000.
Full professor	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	2004.
Full professor, permanent position	Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb	2009.

Internship (1 week and more)
Institution	Place	Year
Wageningen University, Agriculture Center	Wageningen, The Netherlands	1987., 1990.
Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Netherlands Society for Microbiology	Veldhoven, The Netherlands	1996., 1999.
Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Netherlands Society for Microbiology	Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands	2002., 2005.

Honours:

Award of Croatian Microbiological Society for longtime successful cooperation in the Society and the acknowledgment to the entire educational, professional and scientific work in the development of applied microbiology, 22 January 2016.
National Award for Science for the year 2009, for the application of the scientific results –development of the probiotic concept (probiotics as food additives and probiotics as biotherapeutics) and application of starter cultures in Croatia. 2010
1^st Award of the Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalizers, for the production and application of starter cultures, on the 5^th International Fair of Innovations, New Ideas, Products and Technologies ARCA, Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalizers, 2007.
Annual Award "Rikard Podhorsky" of the Croatian Academy of Engineering, 2006.
Acknowledgement for the long-time successful cooperation and extraordinary contribution in the promotion of high education, science and profession on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology University of Zagreb, 2006.