Associate professor Neven Hadžić, Ph.D.
Associate professor Neven Hadžić, Ph.D., was born on November 3rd, 1984 in Zagreb where he completed elementary school and classical gymnasium. He enrolled in the study of Naval architecture at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, in 2003. In 2008 he started a postgraduate study and has completed it in 2013 with the dissertation on ship hydroelasticity. He is employed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb and was elected to associate professorship in 2019. He actively teaches courses: Ship production I, Ship pro[1]duction II, and Design of shipyards. He has participated in four international research projects and participates presently as a principal researcher or collaborator in several projects dealing with production system engineering. His main fields of research interests are related to hydroelasticity, dynamic response of ships and offshore structures, offshore renewable energy sources, and analysis and designing of production processes. His previous work resulted in the publication of 6 books and more than 90 scientific and professional papers in international and domestic journals and conference proceedings. He received several awards for his work. Some of the most distinguished are: the Annual Award of The Society of University Teachers, Scholars and Other Scientists – Zagreb (2015), the Annual Award for Young Scientists (2015), and the Annual award Ivan Filipović (2017).
Associate professor Tihomir Opetuk, Ph.D.
Tihomir Opetuk was born on 07. September 1984 in Zagreb. He finished elementary school in Vukovina and High Aviation technical school Rudofl Perešin in Velika Gorica. He enrolled Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2003. He completed an Undergraduate university programme in Industrial Engineering and Management module in 2007 with a bachelor thesis on the topic: Implementation of Group Technology in the Process Planning. In 2008 He completed the Graduate university programme in the Industrial Engineering and Management module with a diploma thesis on the topic: Model Development for the Time estimation in Machining of Rotational Parts. In 2008 he was awarded Faculty Medal for Academic Achievement. In 2016 he completed Postgraduate doctorate studies in the Indus[1]trial Engineering and Management module with a doctoral thesis on the topic: Model of Green Supply Chain Management Implementation. From August 2008 he was employed in the company Končar Distribution and Special Transformers Inc. as a process engineer. For two and a half years he was an assistant director for the construction of a high voltage laboratory, assembly plant, warehouse, and offices space. Starting from February 2012 he works at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb, at the Department of Industrial Engineering. He is the author or co-author of a chapter in the book, 18 scientific papers published in international journals, 26 papers at international conferences, and has participated in the writing of professional papers and projects for the economy.
Postdoc researcher Robert Keser, Ph.D.
Robert Keser was born on the 6th of May 1990 in Zagreb, Croatia. He finished the X. High school in Zagreb, 2009. In the same year, he started the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. He finished the undergraduate program and began with the graduate study program in 2014., finally graduating in 2016. During his studies, he received several awards, such as the Rector’s award in 2014. Always drawn to the field of numerical simulations, he wrote the Bachelor’s thesis on the topic of predicting transient operating regimes of organic fluid evaporators, continuing towards the Master’s thesis during which he investigated the implicitly coupled solution procedure for two-equation turbulence models. Upon graduation, he started an internship at Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 team within the CFD Advanced Projects group. After the internship, he worked as a CFD Engineer for Rimac Automobili within the Powertrain Department. In 2018 he started as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (University of Zagreb) on a project called ‘Predictive Models and Experimental Validation of Multicomponent Dense Spray Dynamics’. He defended his PhD thesis in 2021, and in April 2022 he started as a postdoc researcher within the ANTYARD project.
Assistant Viktor Ložar, mag. ing. nav. arch.
Assistant Viktor Ložar, mag. ing. nav. arch. was born on November 22th, 1983 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, where he completed elementary school and technical gymnasium. There he was nominated 2003 with the prize regional winner (Baden-Wuerttemberg) in physics in ‘Jugend Forscht’. He enrolled in the study of Naval architecture at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, in 2003. He completed an Undergraduate university programme in Naval Architecture in 2009 with a bachelor thesis on the topic: Analysis of the completion of stiffened panels on a production line. From 2006–2007 he was the chairman of the Inventor association of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. He completed the Graduate university programme in Naval Architecture in 2011 with a diploma thesis on the topic: Dynamic positioning system on the drill-ship with a crane for heavy lifting operations. Starting from October 2011 he worked in the shipyard 3. MAJ, Rijeka, as a Hull constructor. From January 2013 he was a Junior Designer at the Brodarski institute d.o.o., while in December 2013 he was a Constructor in the production at VTR Komponente d.o.o. From June 2015 he was a tool constructor for stamping tools at Parametrik d.o.o. Starting from July 2017 he was a Mechanical Engineer Designer in SolidWorks at PIA Automation Croatia d.o.o. In March 2020 he enrolled in the project ANTYARD as an assistant researcher and a Ph.D. student.