Curriculum vitae

• Born: 30 October 1968, Zagreb, Croatia
• Married. Two children.

Education

• Elementary school: 1975--1983, Samobor, Croatia
  
  
• High school: 1983--1987, School for electronics, fine mechanics and optics ``Ruđer Bošković'', Zagreb, Croatia --- Qualified technician for radio and television
  
  
• University education: 1988--1993, University of Zagreb --- Bachelor of Science (Physics). Diploma thesis: Higgs-fermionic sector of the electroweak theory; advisor: prof. dr. Ivica Picek.
  
  
• 1993--1996: PhD student, University of Zagreb, Department of Physics
  
  
• 1996: Master of Science (advisor: prof. dr. Ivica Picek; title of the thesis: Electroweak radiative meson decays)
  
  
• 1998: PhD (advisor: prof. dr. Ivica Picek; title of the thesis: Rare decays of K mesons)
  
  
• Physics summer schools and courses:
  
  
  • Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchen Physik ``Matter under extreme conditions'', Schladming, Austria, March 1994
    
  • Eötvos Graduate School on Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Radiative Corrections, Budapest, Hungary, July 1994
    
  • Triangle '95 Graduate School in Particle Physics, Raach, Austria, September, 25--30, 1995
    
  • Triangle '96 Graduate School, Prague, Czech Republic, September, 2--10, 1996
    
  • Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchen Physik ``Broken Symmetries'', Schladming, Austria, February 28 -- March 7, 1998
    
  • South European School on Elementary Particle Physics (Corfu Summer Institute on EPP), Corfu, Greece, September 1998 (6-20 September)
    
  • Summer School in High Energy Physics and Cosmology, Trieste, Italy, June-July 1999 (21 June - 9 July)
    
  • 55th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, "Heavy Flavour Physics", John Burnet Hall, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 2001 (7-23 August), poster presentation[PDF],
  • 41. Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchen Physik ``Flavour Physics'', Schladming, Austria, February 22 -- 28, 2003
    
    

Working experience

• 1993--2003: Research/Teaching assistant at the Theoretical physics department, University of Zagreb
  
• 2003--now: Dozent (assistant professor) at the Theoretical physics department, University of Zagreb
  
  
• Research publications: see separate page
  
  
• Teaching: see separate page

Research visits

• University of Vienna, Institute for Theoretical Physics, October, 1991
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, February, 1994
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, February, 1995
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, February, 1996
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, February, 1997
  
• Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Physik, February, 1999
  
• University of Oslo, Department of Physics, January-March, 2002
  
• University of Oslo, Department of Physics, February, 2004
  (Talk: B->K eta' Decay puzzle   PDF)
• University of Oslo, Department of Physics, February-July, 2005
  
• University of Regensburg Institute of Theoretical Physics, September 2005 - September 2006
  (Talk: Applying Heavy-Light Chiral Quark Model to rare B Decays   PDF)
• University of Oslo, Department of Physics, September 2005, September 2007
  
• J. Stefan Institute, Department of Theoretical Physics, 26 April 2007
  (Talk: Holographic imaging of nucleon via deeply virtual Compton scattering and conformal symmetry   PDF)
• Ruhr-University Bochum, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik II, November 2007, February 2008
  

Conference participation

• 7th Adriatic Meeting on Particle Physics, Islands of Brijuni, Croatia, September 13--20, 1994
  
• Triangle Meeting on Particle Physics, Vienna, Austria, November 1997 (3-10 November)
  
• Talk at Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Lab Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, November 1998 (3-10 November)
  
• Talk at Central European Triangle Symposium on Particle Physics, Zagreb, Croatia, June 1999 (17-19 June)
  
• Talk at International workshop "Symmetry and spin", SPIN99, Prague, September, 5-12, 1999
  
• Quantum [Un]speakables, conference in commemoration of John. S. Bell, Vienna, Austria, 10-14 November, 2000
  
• 8th Adriatic Meeting, ``Particle Physics in the New Millenium'', Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-14 September, 2001
  
• Talk at The First Scientific and Technical Conference Mathematica in Science, Technology and Education PrimMath[2001], Zagreb, 27--28 September 2001
  
• XXXIst International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2002) Amsterdam, 24-31 July, 2002
  
• Brijuni Conference on ``Space, Time and Life'', Brijuni, 24-31 July, 2002
  
• Talk "B --> K0 eta' decay induced by the singlet-digluon b --> s eta' transition " at the "2002 LHC Days in Split" Split, 8-12 October 2002
  
• Talk "Singlet Penguin Contribution to the B --> K eta' decay" at the 9th Adriatic Meeting, ``Particle Physics and the Universe'', Dubrovnik, Croatia, 4-14 September, 2003
  
• Talk "Generalized parton distributions, and accessing them via deeply virtual Compton scattering beyond NLO" at the "DA06: Workshop on Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes" Durham, 28-30 September 2006
  
• Talk "Accessing generalized parton distributions via deeply virtual Compton scattering beyond NLO" at the "2006 LHC Days in Split" Split, 2-7 October 2006
  
• Talk "Mellin-Barnes approach to GPD modelling and fitting at NLO and beyond" at the "Journees GDR Nucleon - Extracting GPDs", 29-30 November 2007, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (Paris)

Conference organization

• 4th scientific meeting of Croatian physical society, Zagreb, 13-15 November 2003, member of the organizing committee
• 2004 LHC Days in Split, Split, 5-9 October 2004, member of the organizing committee
• 2006 LHC Days in Split, Split, 2-7 October 2006, member of the organizing committee

Other things

• Leader of the Theoretical Phyics Seminar, at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Zagreb
• Popularization of science:
  • Authoring of WWW pages " Physics of the Universe" for e-škola project of Croatian physical society (in Croatian, in collaboration with I. Picek)
  • Lectures for general public:
    • "Black holes" for students of physics, Zagreb 1995
    • "Scientific background of wormholes and warp drives" for participants of Croatian SF convention SFERAkon, Zagreb 1998
    • "Cosmic background radiation - first photograph of the universe", 18th Summer school for the young physicists "Light - physics, technology, cosmology", Korčula, Croatia, 23-29 June 2002
      Paper: PDF     Presentation: PDF     (both in Croatian)
    • "Time travel", one-hour TV show on Croatian television hosted by K. Misak, (guest physicist together with P. Prester), 28 April 2003
      Notes: PDF (in Croatian)
    • "Quantum information", one-hour TV show on Croatian television hosted by K. Misak, (guest physicist together with M. Stipcevic), April 2004
      
    • "Time and physics", talk at philosophical symposium Concept of time in philosophy, Zagreb, 22-23 October 2004
      Presentation: PDF (in Croatian)
    • Guest on public debate "God Particle" about search for Higgs boson, organized by British Council, 12 February 2008, Zagreb
  
  
• Foreign languages: English, German, Italian (basic)
  
  
• Computers:
  • Operating systems: UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD) and MS Windows
  • Computer languages: Fortran 77/90, Mathematica, Python, C, FORM, sh, SQL
  • Computer text mark-up languages: LaTeX, HTML
  • Webmaster of the Zagreb Physics Department WWW pages