Marko Hanzevacki

Division of Physical Chemistry, Group for Computational Life Sciences, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

mhanzev@irb.hr

Scientific Fields

• Physical Organic Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Theoretical Chemistry and Physics

Research Interests

• Computational (Bio)Chemistry and Life Sciences
• Molecular Modeling and Enzyme Kinetics
• Reaction Mechanisms, Chemical Kinetics and Thermodynamics
• Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Chemistry

Education

• M.Sc., Physical and Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2014
• B.Sc., Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2011

Awards and Achievements

• Lecture “Activin Receptor Type IIA Protein Kinase Inhibitors: Free Energy Calculation and Ligand Binding” at 30th Molecular Modeling Workshop in Erlangen, Germany, 2016
  
• Second Poster Prize for presenting a poster “Activin Receptor Type IIA Protein Kinase Inibitors: Free Energy Calculations and Ligand Binding“ at 7th EAM (Engineering of Advanced Materials) symposium in Bad Staffelsteinu (Kloster Banz), Germany, 2015
  
• Participation at the Official AMBER Workshop 2015, Technion University, Haifa, Israel, 2015
• Rector’s Award in Natural Sciences for student paper “Application of ONIOM Method in Modeling Intermolecular Interactions in Crystals“, University of Zagreb, 2014
• Special Rector’s Award for organizing VI. “Department of Chemistry: Open Day” at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 2013

Publications

1. A computational study of the chlorination and hydroxylation of amines by hypochlorous acid, D. Sakic, M. Hanzevacki, D. M. Smith, V. Vrcek, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 11740-11752, 10.1039/C5OB01823D

Memberships in Graduate Schools and Professional Associations

• Graduate School Of Advanced Materials and Processes, FAU, Erlangen, Germany, 2015

• Croatian Chemical Society, 2014