Nataša Jermen is the assistant director for research and inter-institutional cooperation at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb. She graduated in molecular biology (1994) and gained MSc (2003) in biomedicine at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. In 2012 she was awarded the PhD degree in information and communication sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She also graduated in Swedish language and literature (1995) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Since 1998 she has been employed at the Miroslav Krleža Insitute of Lexicography in Zagreb, as the editor in the field of natural sciences, biomedicine and biotechnology.

Her research interest lies within the field of information and communication sciences and covers bibliometrics and scientometrics and their role in science policy, as well as lexicography and encyclopaedistics in the digital humanities area. She was a collaborator in several national and international projects.

She is a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals Studia lexicographica (since 2015; deputy editor-in-chief since 2022), Molecular and Experimental Biology in Medicine (2017-2020), and The Encyclopedia Herald of Ukraine (since 2025).

She is a member of the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH), Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), European Association of Science Editors (EASE), and the Commission on Bibliography, Archives and Records (CBAR) under the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology / Division for the History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST).