Natasa Jermen

Nataša Jermen graduated in molecular biology (1994) and gained her MSc in biomedicine (2003) at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. In 2012 she was awarded the PhD degree in information and communication sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She also graduated in Swedish language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1995. In 1994 she attended a scholarship at Valla Folkhögskola in Linköping for the advancement of her Swedish language knowledge. As a fellow at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bologna, in 1996 she gained a specialisation in the field of biotechnology. In 1997 she trained in the field of molecular microbiology, as a fellow at the Institute of Microbiology, Karl-Franzens-University in Graz. Since 1998 she has been employed at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb, as a member of the editorial board of the Croatian Encyclopaedia. She is a lexicographer in the field of natural sciences, biomedicine and biotechnology. From 2009 to 2013 she was the assistant director for research and development and since 2014 she has been the assistant director for research and inter-institutional co-operation. In this role, she coordinates and organises the Institute's activities related to its scientific performance. In 2016 she attended ERA Fellowship Programme at the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB), which was launched by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with the intention to support capacity building in the field of science management in the EU13. Her scientific interests lie within the field of information and communication sciences with the particular emphasis on the research of the impact of science polices on social sciences and humanities, as well as encyclopedistics in the digital humanities area. She was a collaborator in the project "The Development of a Model for the Evaluation of Scientific Work in Croatia", carried out at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (2007−2013) and funded by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport. Since 2017 she is a collaborator in the national project "Znameniti.hr",  which aims at building a thematic portal containing digital material on famous Croatian personalities. She was a collaborator on the international project "Cooperation Framework of Digital Infrastructure in the Region − Opportunities and Needs in the Case of Material Concerning Famous People in Science and Culture" funded by DARIAH-EU consortium (2017−2018).  She was a member of the COST Action "European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities" (ENRESSH) 2018−2020.  Since 2015 she has been a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Studia lexicographica; since 2022 she has been  journal's deputy editor-in-chief. She is a member of the Croatian Biological Society (since 1994), International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC, since 2016), EvalHum Initiative (since 2019) − i.e. European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH, since 2022), Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC, since 2020), and European Association of Science Editors (EASE, since 2021).
Phone: +385 1 4800 388
Address: Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleza, Frankopanska 26, 10000 Zagreb