Dear friends of CROSS,
We are very pleased to announce our next lecturer: Ass. professor Damir Kovačić, PhD.
Nowadays Damir Kovačić is an assistant professor on undergraduate and graduate courses at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and School of Medicine, University of Split and head of the Biophysics Laboratory at Department of Physics, University of Split and former Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is the author of 20 peer-reviewed papers, including papers in PNAS, Scientific Reports, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neural Engineering, JARO, Ear and Hearing and the Journal of Acoustical Society of America. He has h-index of 9 and has been cited 650 times in Web of Science and 1120 times in Google Scholar. He works in auditory neurosciences, including cochlear implants (signal processing, clinical fittings), neuroimaging (optical topography, near-infrared spectroscopy, EEG & evoked potentials) and auditory neurophysiology (high dense single cell extracellular electrophysiology). Recently, he developed a high-density neuroelectronic interface for neurophysiological studies of in vitro neuronal cultures and is developing graphene-based neuroelectronic interfaces.
His research mobility experience includes long research stays at SISSA, Trieste (5 years), KU Leuven (2 years) and IMEC, Leuven (1 year), Polyclinic SUVAG, Zagreb (6 years) and Rijskuniversiteit Groningen (6 months) as well as short stays (<~2 months) at CNRS-EHESS Paris (France), Ulaan Bataar (Mongolia), Dartmouth College (USA) and the Bionic Institute, Cochlear Ltd & University of Melbourne (Australia). He leads a collaborative research project supported by Cochlear Ltd, a leading manufacturer of cochlear implants. He is experienced with research fundraising and project management and led which so far yielded > 1.8 MEuros (FP7 & H2020 grants, EU Structural grants, National grants, etc.). He is a grant reviewer and journal reviewer in multiple journals and research foundations and agencies such as European commission – REA, Graphene flagship, French National Research Agency, Croatian Science Foundation, Journal of speech, language and hearing research, The journal of the Acoustical society of America etc.