Darja Sokolić, PhD, Scientific Assistant, is a Head of Department for Data Management and Nutrition in Croatian Food Agency. She graduated in 1994 at the Faculty of Food Technology. In 2013, she got her doctoral title at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology in Zagreb. During her professional career, she attended a great number of trainings in the field of process management, quality and food safety and project management. She has published a dozen scientific papers and participated in numerous international and national conferences. She was a coordinator/associate on more than 20 national and international scientific and expert projects, where one of the most significant projects was the FP7 TDS Exposure (2012-2015). She is a member of the EFSA Working Group on Food Consumption Data and several committees at the Ministries related to legislation in the field of food safety. Since 2010, she was appointed as WHO INFOSAN Network Focal Point for Croatia.

Current focus of her professional work includes the collection and generation of data relevant to the risk assessment of contaminants originating from food, with an emphasis on national research on dietary habits and food consumption. She was project manager of the first national food consumption survey on adult population in Croatia (2011-2012). She is the project manager of the first national food consumption survey on infants, toddlers and young children (2012.-2017.), which is financed by EFSA.