Ivana Čorak, Ph.D., Assistant

Personal data 

1^st March 1992, Slavonski Brod

Web links

• CRORIS
• Google Scholar
• Research Gate
• ORCID

Academic education

• 2010 - 2013 - univ. bacc. ing., Textile Technology and Engineering, Department of Textile Chemistry, Materials and Ecology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology; final paper on "Degumming of silk fibers with citric acid", mentor: Maja Andrassy

• 2013- 2015 - mag. ing. techn. text., Textile Technology and Engineering, Department of Textile Chemistry, Materials and Ecology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology; graduate thesis on the topic "PET fabric modification by cutinase", mentor: Anita Tarbuk

• 2018 - 2019 - Pedagogic-psychological-didactic-methodical education; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Education, Department of Lifelong Learning

• 2019 - postgraduate doctoral study program Textile Science and Technology, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology

Employment and titles

• 2016 - 2019 - Boxmark Leather d.o.o., QS
• 2019 - 2023 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology, Assistant on the project
• 2023 - University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology, Assistant 

Scientific specialisation and research stays abroad

• 2023. Erasmus+ projekt GreenTex, International Summer School, Aveiro, Portugal (5 days)
• 2023. Textile & Garment Technology Exhibition, ITMA 2023., Milan, Italy  (4 days)
• 2021. TFL - Faculty of Technology in Leskovac, University of Niš, Serbia, Scientific training outside Croatia 4 days)
• 2021. (3 months) - Erasmus+ Student Mobility for Traineeship at Lodz University of Technology, Faculty of Material Technologies and Textile Design, Institute of Material and Commodity Sciences and Textile Metrology, Lodz, Poljska

Teaching activity

• The theory of textile finishing
• Textile dyeing and printing
• Colour theory
• Textile dyeing
• Colour metric
• Basics of colour metrics
• Special printing methods
• Textile printing

Research

• Scientific Area: Technical Sciences
• Scientific Field: Textile Technology

Area of special research interest

• interface phenomena on textile
• textile for medical application
• enzymes in textile finishing
• polyester hydrolysis

Scientific-professional work

• 8 original scientific papers in the journal

• 1 review paper (scientific) in the journal

• 2 professional papers in the magazine

• 16 original scientific papers from the conference

• 2 review papers (scientific) from the conference

• 2 extended summaries of presentations from the conference

• 6 summaries of presentations from the conference

List of key scientific papers

• 1. Flinčec Grgac, Sandra ; Tesla, Tea ; Čorak, Ivana ; Žuvela Bošnjak, Franka
  Hydrothermal Synthesis of Chitosan and Tea Tree Oil on Plain and Satin Weave Cotton Fabrics // Materials, 15 (2022), 14; 5034, 17. doi: 10.3390/ma15145034

• 2. Čorak, Ivana ; Brlek, Iva ; Sutlović, Ana ; Tarbuk, Anita
  Natural Dyeing of Modified Cotton Fabric with Cochineal Dye // Molecules, 27 (2022), 3; 1100, 13. doi: 10.3390/molecules27031100

• 3. Flinčec Grgac, Sandra ; Jablan, Jasna ; Inić, Sara ; Malinar, Rajna ; Kovaček, Ivančica ; Čorak, Ivana
  The effect of ultrasonic treatment on the binding of the inclusion complex β-cyclodextrin-peppermint oil with cellulose material // Materials, 15 (2022), 2; 470, 13. doi: 10.3390/ma15020470

• 4. Glogar, Martinia Ira ; Dekanić, Tihana ; Tarbuk, Anita ; Čorak, Ivana ; Labazan, Petra
  Influence of Cotton Cationization on Pigment Layer Characteristics in Digital Printing // Molecules, 27 (2022), 4; 1418, 14. doi: 10.3390/molecules27041418

• 5. Čorak, Ivana ; Tarbuk, Anita ; Đorđević, Dragan ; Višić, Ksenija ; Botteri Lea
  Sustainable Alkaline Hydrolysis of Polyester Fabric at Low Temperature // Materials, 15 (2022), 4; 1530, 17. doi: 10.3390/ma15041530

• 7. Sutlović, Ana ; Glogar, Martinia Ira ; Čorak, Ivana ; Tarbuk, Anita
  Trichromatic Vat Dyeing of Cationized Cotton // Materials, 14 (2021), 5731, 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14195731

Projects (collaborator)

• 01.02.2024. - 31.01.2028. - Erasmus+  Programme (ERASMUS) Partnerships for Innovation - Alliances (ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-ALL-INNO) Addressing Skills Gaps in the European Textile, Clothing, Leather and Footwear Industries, Emphasizing Equality, Innovation, and Resilience; acronym AEQUALIS4TCLF Blueprint project, (coordinator Prof. Dr. Dirk Vantyghem, EURATEX, Belgium, 19 partners from 11 EU countries, Legal representative/ contact person of partner: Prof. Sanja Ercegović Ražić, PhD,  University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology)

• Sustainable Design and Process in Textiles for Higher Education (GreenTEX)

  from Erasmus+ programa, Key activity2, Project No.: 2021-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000032201, 1. 1. 2022. – 31. 12. 2023. coordinator Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Partners: Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic; Kaunas University of technology, Lithuania; University of Aveiro, Portugal; University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology, Croatia, coordinator: A. Tarbuk; collaborator in the last year of the project

• HRZZ UIP-05-2019-8780, HPROTEX: Hospital Protective Textiles, leader: Associate Professor Sandra Flinčec Grgac, PhD (15^th March 2018 - 14^th September 2023)
• Bio-innovated polyester material aimed for use in a hospital environment from the "Project for the development of careers of young researchers - training of new PhDs" of the Croatian Science Foundation, HRZZ-DOK-2018-09-4254, 25^th April 2019 - 24^th April 2023
• Bio-innovated polyesters - bilateral Croatia-Serbia 2019-2021,from the program of the Ministry of Science and Education "Bilateral scientific research projects as part of joint Croatian-Serbian cooperation, partner: University of Niš, Faculty of Technology in Leskovac; leader prof. Ph.D. Dragan Đorđević

 Awards

• Interim Dean's award for excellence at the postgraduate university study Textile Science and Technology in the academic year 2019/2020 on the occasion of the Faculty Day, January 25, 2021
• Textile Science Research Center Award for the scientific research work in the field of textiles in category I: for young researchers at the TSRC Day, September 24, 2021