PhD student Zoran Kiralj is one of ten selected young participants at the scientific conference 34^th International Symposium on Chromatography – ISC 2024, held in Liverpool in United Kingdom, from 6^th to 10^th October 2024, that were awarded with student sponsorship of the company Shimadzu. The sponsorship covered the cost of the conference fee.

According to official announcement at the web-page of the company Shimadzu, the winners were selected among "a great number of high-quality abstracts, showcasing the innovative research being conducted by students all over Europe".

The winners were the following:

• Mégane Aebischer, University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Matteo Baglietto, University of Genoa, Italy

• Theodora Barmpouni, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

• Maja Bensa, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Rhona M. Cowan, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Mitch De Waard, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

• Zoran Kiralj, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

• Hana Seličová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

• Alexandra Webb, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Zoran has participated with poster presentation under title "Distribution of selected technology-critical elements among cytosolic biomolecules in the northern pike liver analysed by SEC-HPLC-ICP-MS", presenting the selected results of the METABIOM project.