Krešimir Jakšić, PhD, is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Zadar. His scientific interests focus on quantitative psychology, with a particular emphasis on dynamic approaches to measuring personality and social processes. He earned his PhD on the HRZZ project “Teacher personality, emotion, and performance: A dynamic perspective” under the leadership of Irena Burić, PhD.

He actively collaborates on the NSF project “The Role of Individual and Social Networks in the Formation and Change of Beliefs” with Mirta Galešić and Henrik Olsson. Within the project, he applies analyses such as topic modeling and sentiment analysis for processing large datasets. His research orientation combines psychological knowledge with data analytics.

In academic work, he serves as a teaching assistant in the areas of methodology, marketing, and occupational psychology. He is a reviewer for several domestic and international journals indexed in WoS and Scopus (e.g., Current Psychology, Scientific Reports, EPJ Data Science).