Resume:

Born on October 25th, 1951. Graduated from the Classical high school in Zagreb in 1970. Graduated Radio communications at the Faculty of electrical engineering in Zagreb, with the thesis “Lasers used in communication” in 1974. Received a doctoral degree at the Department of information and communication sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with the thesis “Theory and rules of segmenting text written in Croatian” in 1998.

Employment history:

Reference center of the University of Zagreb (Multimedia center) (1975-1984)

The Department of information and communication sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

• assistant and senior assistant (1984-1999)
• assistant professor (1999-2003)
• associate professor (since 2003)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (since 2004)

• vice dean for science and international cooperation at he Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (since September 1st, 2004)
• chairman and founder of the Chair for lexicography and encyclopedic science at he Department of information science

Miroslav Krleža lexicographic institute (additional employment)

• assistant manager for computer science and science in general, since 2000

Has participated and still participates as a researcher in several projects by the Ministry of science (since 1990 to the present).

He is to co-director of the postgraduate program of lexicology and encyclopedic science in the making (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Lexicographic institute). He war a mentor for several dozens of graduate thesis, along with several bachelor and doctoral thesis, and five students under his mentorship received the Rector’s award.

He has led or participated in several projects in applying and introducing computer technology into high and primary education, publishing and the justice system.

Published around 40 scientific and professional works, books and higher education textbooks, and around 20 presentation at scientific conventions, both in Croatia and abroad, in the fields of information science, programming, computerized text and natural language processing, lexicography and encyclopedic science.

Awards: Golden medal in the international competition in recognizing classical literature and language (San Remo, Italy, 1970). Rector’s award for his student work “Remotely communicating with a computer”, 1973. First prize in the international public competition for the National and university library project (as a member of the project team in charge of the computer and information project, 1975).

Foreign languages: English, French, German, Italian (actively), Slovenian (passive), Latin, Ancient Greek (fluent),

Publications listed in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

• Chief researcher in the project “130464 Croatian dictionary heritage and dictionary knowledge presentation”, organized by the Croatian Ministry of science and technology, since 2000.
• Chief researcher in the international project aided by UNESCO: “Croatian dictionary heritage and dictionary knowledge presentation”, since 2003.

Membership:

• vice-dean for science and international cooperation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (since October 1st, 2004)
• cChairman and founder of the Chair for lexicography and encyclopedic science at the Department of information science at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (since 2004)
• deputy Head of the Department of information and communication sciences (1997 – 2004)
• since 1990 to 1993 he participated in the project of computerizing the University, and he was also the chairman of the Comity for the computerization of the University
• a member of the Administrative council for the University computer center (1997-2000)
• a member of the Croatian school council at the Ministry of Education (since October 1998 to 2000) for the field of computer science, and also a member of the textbook comity
• deputy President and then president of the Comity for computerizing the Croatian education system at the Ministry for Education, from 2000 to 2003
• a member of the Coordinating team for the preparation for Croatia’s participation in the World summit on the information society (WSIS) at the Ministry of Science and Technology (from 2001 – 2003), and in that capacity he attended two preliminary international conferences in Riga in 2001, and in Mainz in 2002
• a member of the Professional council of the Computer department at the Polytechnic College in Zagreb (since 1999)
• a member of the board of education of the Classical high school in Zagreb (since 2001)
• he is also a member of:

- Matica Hrvatska

- HID (Croatian information and documentation society)

- HDPIO (Croatian society for promoting computer education)

- Croatian all-European union

- Parliamentary comity for informing, computerization and the media in the Croatian parliament (since February 2004)

Courses:

Undergraduate study

• Text and natural language processing
• Linguistic databases
• Computer networks

Graduate study

• Computer-assisted teaching

Postgraduate study

• Digitisation of cultural heritage (Postgraduate Study of Information and Communication Sciences)
• Croatian Dictionary Heritage and Dictionary Knowledge Presentation (Postgraduate Study of Croatian Culture)