Dr. Katarina Josifovska

  • Douglasstraße 24
    76133 Karlsruhe

Work experience

2025 - 

Project Manager

Coordination and communication of cross-dimensional Academy's Projects including Research, Teaching, Innovation and Outreach

 

Process optimization within the organization and projects

 

Academy Marketing and Web-site management

 

Project Co-leader: Ethics of Chemistry - integration of responsibility and critical thinking into scientific education and practice

2019 - 2025

Scientific Researcher

Physical Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

2014 - 2019

Teaching Assistant

Gas Chromatography Lab (GC-MS), Analytical Chemistry
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, North Macedonia

Education

2020 – 2024

Dr. rer. nat.

Thesis: Microcalorimetric investigation of organic molecules’ adsorption and lead deposition on gold electrodes from aqueous solutions

Physical Chemistry of Condensed Matter, Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

2016 – 2018

M. Sc.
Analytical Biochemistry (+ Awards)

Development of a microextraction method for GC-MS analysis of Bisphenol A and Triclosan
Institute of Chemistry, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, North Macedonia

2010 – 2014 Dipl. Chem. Ing
Biochemistry
Institute of Chemistry, “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, North Macedonia

Research stay

2017 / 2018

AUF/et le FRS de Bulgarie: Molecular modeling: Contribution to the design of HIV inhibitors

Department of Physical Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria


Awards

2019 Feb Young Chemists International Award for Young Chemists Issued by RSEQ – for the Development of a microextraction method for GC-MS analysis of Bisphenol A and Triclosan
2018 Jul

RSC Travel Grant, Issued by Royal Society of Chemistry


International Events and Projects

  • The Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider - Organizing committee member

  • EYCN Podcast - Producer, story writer, moderator and host (episodes 9 - 12)

  • Chemistry Rediscovered: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson EYCN Video Competition - Project member

  • Electrochemistry Undercover - Organized and moderated the Scientific Section HUB 6

  • 13th Students´ Congress of SCTM - Organizing committee President

  • 25th Congress of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia - Organizing committee member