Founder at Scinquest based in Karlovac, Croatia.
palajsa@pm.me
+385917240162
About
Therapist turned mathematician turned computer scientist turned entrepreneur. Dividing time between researching, coding and learning from failure. Attempted to map the self-improvement industry. Solving the replication crisis one quest at a time.
Experience
Founder
- Scinquest
- Platform for Recreational Scientists
- June 2022 – Present
Founder
- Peactured
- Mapping the Self-Improvement Industry
- January 2019 – May 2022
Demonstrator
- University of Zagreb
- Methods of Mathematical Physics
- March 2016 – July 2016
Demonstrator
- University of Zagreb
- Ordinary Differential Equations
- October 2015 – February 2016
Workshop Instructor
- Association of Technical Culture Karlovac
- Teaching Scratch to 5th graders
- June 2013
Education
Master's degree
- University of Zagreb
- Mathematics and Computer Science
- Magna Cum Laude
- 2015 – 2017
Bachelor's degree
- University of Zagreb
- Mathematics
- 2012 – 2015
Projects
Skills
Tools & Technologies
- C
- CUDA
- Cypress
- MATLAB
- NestJS
- Nuxt
- Tailwind CSS
- TensorFlow
Industry Knowledge
- Computer Science
- Machine Learning
- Mathematics
- Metascience
- Self-Improvement
Honors & Awards
Third Prize at Student Competition Mozgalo
- Data Mining
- 2017
NZPUSS Scholarship
- National Foundation for Student Support
- 2017
State Scholarship
- Ministry of Science and Education
- 2013 – 2015
Third Prize at National Competition in Mathematics
- Ministry of Science and Education
- 2012
Second Prize at National Competition in Mathematics
- Ministry of Science and Education
- 2011