Dear colleagues,
It is our distinct pleasure to announce the Honorary lecture as part of the ceremonial opening of the 11th Congress of the Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, which will be held on October 9, 2024. The honorary lecture will be given by professor Dario Vretenar, fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Professor Vretenar is a full professor at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb and secretary general of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
His lecture will give an insight into the key role of science in modern society and inspire us to encourage and nurture our scientific skills. We are looking forward to meet at the opening of the Congress and hope that this lecture will be stimulating and inspiring for all participants.
A short biography of professor Vretenar, fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, is presented below.
Biography
Dario Vretenar graduated in physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb in 1982, received his master's degree in 1985, and his doctoral degree in 1988 working on theoretical nuclear physics. He performed his postdoctoral training at the University of Bologna, Yale University and at the Technical University of Munich. He works at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, since 1982. In 2006, he was promoted as full professor in permanent position. He was a visiting professor at the University of Bologna, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Tokyo and Peking University. As a visiting scientist, he worked at the Universities of Bologna, Chongqing, Jyvaskyla, Munich, Beijing, Thessaloniki, Tokyo and at the national laboratories of GSI-Darmstadt, Legnaro, IPN-Orsay and Oak Ridge.
Professor Vretenar's area of scientific research is theoretical nuclear physics. He published more than 300 scientific papers in journals included in the Web of Science database and held more than a hundred invited lectures at international conferences and workshops. He organized various international conferences, scientific workshops and postgraduate schools in Croatia and abroad, and edited six proceedings of international scientific meetings. He was a member of the program councils of national laboratories in Italy and Finland, and the program council of "ISOLDE and Neutron Time-of-Flight Experiments Committee", CERN. He is a divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters and member of the editorial board of The European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei.
He is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2012 and a member of the European Academy (Academia Europaea) since 2016. He was elected Secretary General of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2019.
