Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić

Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić is a New Zealand academic,  and as of 2018 is a professor at the University of Auckland.

Academic career
After an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a PhD titled  'Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers'  at the University of Auckland, Travaš-Sejdić joined the staff, rising to full professor.

Travaš-Sejdić is co-founder of spin-out Spot Check.

Honours and awards
In 2017, Travaš-Sejdić was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

In 2018 the New Zealand Association of Scientists awarded Travaš-Sejdić the Shorland Medal.

In 2019, Travaš-Sejdić was awarded the Hector Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand.