Angela Blažanović completed her graduate study in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb in 2020. During her graduate studies, she worked as a demonstrator at the Department of Electrochemistry and focused on the field of electrochemistry and corrosion itself. During the preparation of her graduate thesis entitled "Temperature hysteresis of the electrode potential of various pseudo-reference electrodes" under the mentorship of prof. Ph.D. Helena Otmačić Ćurković, she had the opportunity to collaborate with industry in solving a real corrosion problem.

In September of the same year, she was employed as an assistant and doctoral student of the Croatian Science Foundation at the Department of Electrochemistry of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology and enrolled in the University's scientific post-graduate doctoral study in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. She conducted her doctoral thesis as part of the Croatian Science Foundation project "Development of new solutions for the characterization and protection of bronze cultural heritage exposed to the outdoor environment" under the mentorship of prof. Ph.D. Helena Otmačić Ćurković. She deals with the topics of corrosion protection, closely related to the area of bronze protection using waterborne coatings, using electrochemical, microscopic and spectroscopic techniques in her work. As part of her doctoral studies, she published 4 scientific papers and participated in 15 domestic and international conferences. She organized a student conference in the field of electrochemistry, participated in the organization of Corrosion Summer Schools at her Department and stayed at the Institute of Slovenian National Building and Engineering Institute in Ljubljana. She helped in the creation of experimental parts of several final and graduation theses and was a member of the student council.

After defending her doctoral thesis in 2024, she is employed as a researcher on the AELECTRA project (A new concept for mid- to long-term storage of electrical energy in ammonia), HORIZON project, under the leadership of prof. Ph.D. Helene Otmačić Ćurković.

1. Kania,Henryk;Otmačić Ćurković, Helena;Kudláček,Jan;Kapitanović, Angela;Nackiewicz,Joanna;Černý,Daniel;Konopkin,Grzegorz, The effect of Bi on the kinetics of growths, microstructure and corrosion resistance of hot-dip galvanized coatings // Materials, 17 (2024), 7;5604. doi:10.3390/ma17225604

2. Kapitanović, Angela Waterborne coatings for the protection of bronze cultural heritage, Doktorska disertacija / Otmačić Ćurković, Helena (mentor). Zagreb, Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i tehnologije, 2024

3. Otmačić Ćurković, Helena; Kapitanović, Angela; Filipović, Martina; Gorišek, Petra The effect of coating drying conditions on bronze corrosion protection // Journal of electrochemical science and engineering, 14 (2024), 2; 247–263. doi: 10.5599/jese.2228

4. Kapitanović, Angela; Kokot, Tea; Otmačić Ćurković, Helena Bronze corrosion protection by bilayer systems: Self-assembled monolayers of phosphonic acid/waterborne acrylic coating // Progress in organic coatings, 186 (2024), 107984-107984. doi: 10.1016/j.porgcoat.2023.107984

5. Kapitanović, Angela; Otmačić Ćurković, Helena The influence of phosphonic acid pretreatment on the bronze corrosion protection by waterborne coating // Journal of solid state electrochemistry, 27 (2023), 7; 1861-1875. doi: 10.1007/s10008-023-05490-1

6. Kapitanović, Angela ; Otmačić Ćurković, Helena The effect of corrosion conditions on aging of artificial patina on three bronzes // Coatings, 12 (2022), 7; 936. doi: 10.3390/coatings12070936