Krešimir Jakšić, mag. psych.
Department of Psychology, University of Zadar (Croatia)

Works as a research assistant at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar, and a doctoral student at the project Teacher personality, emotion and job performance: A dynamic perspective led by Irena Burić, PhD. He is also a doctoral student in psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.

The emphasis of his training is on modeling dynamic systems, achieved through education within the project (Analysing Intensive Longitudinal Data workshop organized by Curran-Bauer Analytics) and project cooperation with associates at Santa Fe Institute (USA) in the field of social dynamics modeling.

He is the author and contributor to several scientific and professional papers published in international and national publications, and (co)author of conference papers. He has reviewed several scientific submissions for domestic and foreign journals.

He is engaged in teaching as an associate in the courses Practicum of Experimental Psychology II and III and is a mentor of two bachelor theses in the process of development in the field of personality psychology.

He held a series of lectures and workshops to popularize science as part of the European Researchers' Night, Brain Awareness Week, and Psychology Week.

He has won a scholarship to participate in the Complexity-GAINs International Summer School, the University of Zadar scholarship of excellence, an Erasmus+ scholarship for student exchange, and a Bujas gold badge for a particularly valuable graduate thesis.

He is a member of the Croatian Psychological Chamber.

A full list of his publications can be found here.