From 15 to 26 September 2025, PhD student Katja Mužek visited Professor Elsa Gliozzi at Roma Tre University, within the framework of funding from the internal RAMPA project. The aim of the scientific stay was to study the collection of Neogene ostracods from the Mediterranean Lago Mare phase...

PhD student Katja Mužek, supported by the SALTAGES COST Action within the framework of a Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) and RAMPA project, had the opportunity to carry out fieldwork from 7 to 14 September 2025 in central Italy, with a particular focus on sites related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis...

Na IC RCMNS konferenciji Katja Mužek predstavila je znanstveni poster s naslovom „The revision of upper Pannonian ostracod and mollusk fauna from the Portaferrian type locality of Mislođin (the Pannonian Basin, Serbia)“ temeljen na istraživanju Mislođina – tipskog lokaliteta gornjeg panona (portafer) unutar Panonskog bazena...

At the EGU 2025 conference, as part of the SSP4.1 session "Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment through the lens of micropaleontology", Katja Mužek delivered an oral presentation titled “A comparative study of lacustrine ostracods and mollusks of the Dinarides and Serbian Lake Systems”, where she presented preliminary results from the first stage of her PhD research...

As part of the RAMPA project, Katja Mužek carried out a research stay at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where she attended the university course Cenozoic Stratigraphy. As part of the laboratory work, she processed a new set of samples from the locality Voljavča (Kraljevo–Čačak Basin, Serbian Lake System)...

In January 2025, PhD student Katja Mužek spent one week at the Department of Geology at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, where she participated in laboratory activities related to the analysis of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes on fossil ostracod and mollusk shells...

As part of the RAMPA project, new sieves (0.50, 0.25, 0.125, 0.09, and 0.063 mm), one Lenovo laptop, and a Seagate Basic Portable Drive were purchased in 2025...

As part of a mobility funded by an internal research project under the supervision of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, conducted within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021–2026 – NextGenerationEU (Development of Miocene Paleoenvironments in Croatia and Their Connection to Global Events – RAMPA), PhD student Katja Mužek, spent the period from March to May 2024 at the Natural History Museum in Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)...

From March 18th to the 22nd, 2024, PhD student Katja Mužek participated in the European School of Ostracoda (ESO), held at the University of Patras, Greece. Attendance at the school was made possible by a grant from the Micropalaeontological Society and funding from the internal research project Development of Miocene Paleoenvironments in Croatia and Their Connection to Global Events (RAMPA). The school’s program was designed as a comprehensive overview of ostracod fauna, with a focus on taxonomy, morphology, paleoecology, and stable isotope analysis, complemented by practical micropaleontological exercises and fieldwork...

As part of her doctoral research, PhD student Katja Mužek conducted two fieldworks – one in Romania and second one in Serbia, focusing on the analysis of Pannonian and Pontian (Pontian in the context of the Eastern Paratethys) ostracod and mollusk fauna from the Dacian Basin and Lake Pannon. Both field studies were funded by the internal research project Development of Miocene Paleoenvironments in Croatia and Their Connection to Global Events (RAMPA)...