​Marta has set up her first research group in February, 2018, after being awarded the 5 year Installation grant by the Croatian National Science Foundation (UIP-2017-05-5258) for her work on DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC). Since then, she has been studying the mechanisms of DPC repair combining structural biology, cell systems and animal models.

Cecile joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2019, and is a tenure-track research scientist since 2023. She is an experienced zebrafish researcher who did her PhD at the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany in the group of of Prof. Salim Seyfried. She then continued as a postdoctoral felllow in the Seyfried group at the Potsdam University before moving to Zagreb.

Marin Kutnjak joined the group as a PhD student in December 2021. He acquired a Master of Science degree in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Science, the University of Zagreb, in 2021 with a summa cum laude. In 2021 he was awarded the Rector’s Award of the University of Zagreb, the highest award for students in Croatia, for an individual research paper.