Maja Stanić

Maja graduated in 2006 from the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, with a degree in Graphic Technology. In the same year, she enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral study Graphic Engineering at the same university. During the PhD studies, Maja became active in international projects, such as the recently finished COST project E48: The limits of paper recycling and CREATE: Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment.

For the last year, Maja has also worked as an international relations officer for the Faculty of Graphic Arts, and thus gained experience in working with EU funded projects and academic mobility.

In the course of her PhD research, which concerns the structure, surface, specifically colour, and permanence properties of 3D ink-jet prints, Maja has also published and presented papers in international journals and international, regional and national conferences, seminars and forums. Her research interests include novel printing techniques such as 3D printing, developments in digital printing, active and intelligent printed products, print quality assessment and image analysis techniques in papermaking and printing technology.

Maja was offered to join the Kenniscentrum early 2010 to work on the projects concerning active and intelligent packaging and printing. Her work will mostly deal with literature and scientific review, report writing, and supervision of student work in mentioned areas. Maja is very happy to have joined the Kenniscentrum as she believes this work will be beneficial to both. Maja is looking forward to work on these new and exciting subjects and especially to work in a motivated team such as the Kenniscentrum.

Maja is currently involved in the projects:

AIP: Active and Intelligent Packaging. This is a Cornet project, with 7 international partners. AIP is focused on development of tools to communicate advanced technologies on active and intelligent packaging, to meet the needs and trends in food processing and retailing and to improve the knowledge transfer, especially for SMEs. The Kenniscentrum is a research performer for Wereld van Papier in AIP, active in research focusing on solid board based packaging, frozen and cooled supply chains, printed sensors and indicators, integrated directly to the packaging, active principles: temperature, humidity and microbial activity control and leader for WP Dissemination.
SSK: Smart and Slim Supply-chains. SSK is an initiative focusing on integrated intelligent and communicative technologies for more efficient and effective supply- chains, with focus on FTP: Food, Transport and Packaging (3v). The results that can be expected are fewer failures, faster supply chain flow, less transport and, because of that, lower cost in combination with the optimal stock control. Goals are the reduction of energy and material losses in the whole supply chain, low cost solutions for intelligent and communicative printing with the help of integrated techniques in existing production processes and an inventory of the wishes and needs of the different links within the production and packaging chain.