Nataša Jermen is the assistant director for research and inter-institutional co-operation 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 board of the scientific journals Studia lexicographica (since 2015) and Molecular and Experimental Biology in Medicine (since 2017).

She is a member of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), EvalHum/ENRESSH, Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), and the European Association of Science Editors (EASE).