University of Zagreb,
Faculty of Science,
Department of Biology,
Horvatovac 102a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
sara.essert@biol.pmf.hr
Biography and bibliography:
https://www.pmf.unizg.hr/biol/sara.essert
https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/1247
Sara Essert graduated in 2002 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2013 at the Division of Botany, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. In February 2003, she started working at the same department as an assistant, and currently holds the position of an associate professor.
Her scientific activities are related to the following areas: archaeobotany, material science/subfossil wood, and botany (floristics, taxonomy, nature conservation). She has published a total of around 20 scientific papers cited in the Scopus database and has participated in around 20 scientific conferences. She underwent scientific training at the following foreign institutions: Institute of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of Basel (Switzerland) – course on the analysis of plant macrofossils (2010); Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) – Erasmus+ scholarship, course on wood anatomy (2015); George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Cambridge University (United Kingdom) – introduction to the determination of charred wood (2016). From 2016 to 2019, she was a collaborator on the EU H2020 project Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap (MendTheGap), and in 2020, she participated in the HRZZ project IP-CORONA-2020-12-3798. As an external collaborator and archaeobotanist, she participated in a series of research projects at various sites (Ružica grad, Barbir-Sukošan, Banski Dvori-Zagreb, Donja Cerovačka pećina, Kalnik-Igrišče, Velika Gorica-Šepkovčica, Osijek Ciglana, Zeleno polje, Pula – Flaciusova ulica, Špičak, Velika Gorica – Jug, etc.).
Since 2003, she has been actively involved in teaching (lectures, practical sessions, seminars, and fieldwork) in over ten courses at the Department of Biology. Currently, she is a lecturer in six courses. She has mentored ten Master theses and three Bachelor theses.
Since 2020, she has been an assistant to the Head of the Department of Biology for Tuition. She is a member of the Croatian Botanical Society and the Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology. From 2020 to 2023, she served as a regional editor at the journal Acta Botanica Croatica. She is proficient in English and German.