Institutes and departments

DEPARTMENT OF Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Resources

DEPARTMENT OF Mineralogy, Petrology and Mineral Resources

Head of department: Assoc. Prof. Uroš Barudžija, PhD dipl. ing.

Deputy head of department: Prof. Sibila Borojević Šoštarić, PhD dipl. ing.

Administrative service: Božena Vlainić

Phone: +385 1 / 5535806

Fax: +385 1 /

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Employees

Tenured professor

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
PhDDunja Aljinović55357905790This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV311
PhD,Goran Durn55357935793This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV306

Professor

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
PhDSibila Borojević Šoštarić55358005800This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV309
PhDMarta Mileusnić55357975797This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV313

Associate Professor

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
PhDVesnica Garašić55357955795This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV308
PhDUroš Barudžija55357915791This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV312
PhDAna Maričić55358095809This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV317
PhDStanko Ružičić55358175817This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV316

Assistant Professor

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
PhDDuje Smirčić55358035803This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV712
Ph.D.Tomislav Brenko55357945794This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV712
PhDPia Prašek  

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
Neven Tadej55358025802This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. V305
Ph.D.Michaela Hruškova55358185818This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV307

Senior Assistant

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
Ph.D.Šime Bilić55357965796This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.siteV712

Administrative officer

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
Božena Vlainić55358065806This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. V310

Senior Technician

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
Branka Prša55357985798This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. V307
Ivor PerkovićThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Vinko Baranašić55357925792This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. V307

Technician

TITLE FIRST NAME, SURNAME DEPARTMENT PUBLIC PHONE INTERNAL PHONE EMAIL WEB CABINET
Mario Valent55358055805This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. V324

Activities

Activities

Staff

19

Departments activity

Teaching staff

10

Scientifi c projects

5

Research associates

2

New professional projects

18

Associates

2

PhD supervising

2

Administrative-technical staff

5

MSc supervising

15

  

 

BSc supervising

 10

 

The Head of the Department:
Assoc. Prof. Uroš Barudžija, PhD

Scientific interests of Department’s staff are closely connected to mineral raw materials, mineralogy, petrology of magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, sedimentology, geochemistry and biogeochemistry, technical petrography, geoarchaeology, archaeometry and environmental protection. Scientific activities in the academic year 2021/2022 were performed in the frame of the Croatian Science Foundation projects: (I) WIANLab - „Western Istrian Anticline as an ideal natural laboratory for the study of the regional unconformities in carbonate rocks”; (II) BREEMECCO – “Dinaridic foreland basin between two thermal optima: possible scenario for Northern Adriatic”; (III) GOST – "Revealing Middle Triassic Paleotethyan geodynamics recorded in the volcano-sedimentary successions of NW Croatia"; (IV) GEODEP – "Geological characterization of the eastern part of the Drava depression subsurface intended for the evaluation of energy potentials"; (V) TransFER – “Iron production along the Drava River in the Roman period and the Middle Ages: Creation and transfer of knowledge, technologies and goods”. Members of the Department participated also in the projects funded by the European Institute for Technology and Innovations (EIT): (1) rESEErve – “Mineral potential of the ESEE region”; (2) EMERALDinho – “Stimulating Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Resources Engineering”; (3) iTARG3T – “Innovative targeting & processing of W-Sn-Ta-Li ores: towards EU's self-supply”; (4) MOBI-US – “Structured mobilities for ESEE raw materials master programs”; (5) TIMREX – „T-Shaped Master Programme for Innovative Mineral Resource Exploration“; (6) DIMESEE-2 – „Dubrovnik International ESEE Mining School“; (7) ENGIE – „Encouraging Girls to Study Geosciences and Engineering“; (8) Invest RM – „Multifactor model for investments in the raw material sector“; (9) MineHeritage – „Historical Mining – tracing and learning from ancient materials and mining technology“; (10) „EIT RawMaterials Hub - RCA Regional Center Adria“; (11) RECO2MAG – „Grain boundaries engineered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets“; (12) „RIS Education & Entrepreneurship“; (13) „RIS Internship programme: broadening University-Business Cooperation“; (14) TrainESEEv.2 – „Training trainers in East and Souteastern Europe“. Research was also financed by four financial supports provided by the University of Zagreb (projects „Geological evolution of rock sin Croatia“; „Mineralogical, petrological and geochemical characteristics of magmatic, volcaniclastic and sedimentary rocks and geological evolution of rock sin Croatia“; „Matematical research in geology V“; „Matematical research in geology VI“; „The influence of terrigenous material on mineralogical and geochemical properties of recent sediments of Mljet lakes“). Activity resulted in the participation of the Department’s staff at numerous domestic and international scientific meetings and publishing 25 scientific articles listed in Scopus and WoSCC (SCI-EXP and ESCI citation index). Members of the Department are active in the editorial boards of international and domestic scientific journals and closely cooperate with the scientists from other institutions, such as: Croatian Geological Survey, Faculty of Science, Institue of Archaeology, The Ruđer Bošković Institute, The Jožef Stefan Institute from Ljubljana, University for Natural Resources and Life Sciences from Vienna, and others. An integral part of the Department are as well: LaGeMa – Laboratory for the Analysis of Geological Materials; and Geoscientific Collection of Minerals, Rocks and Ores. The LaGeMa Laboratory is used in teaching, scientific work and in collaboration with industry to analyze samples of soil, sediments, rocks, ore, water and other materials. The laboratory offers: mineralogical-petrographic analyzes of rocks, chemical, mineral and granulometric analyzes of different types of geological materials samples, chemical analysis of water, detailed analysis of clay minerals and micromorphological soil analysis. Six Bsc and nine MS theses were made in LaGeMa in the academic year 2021/2022. The Department cooperated with the following institutions and organizations: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Textile Technology (all from the University of Zagreb); Universtity of Split-Faculty of Civil Engineering, Northern Velebit National Park, Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, Zagreb Archdiocese, Samoborka, JUB, Foretić and Sons, Marija Reberski - independent restorer/conservator, Architecture and Geodesy, Cemtra GmbH, CSS GmbH, IVICOM, TPA, Green Infrastructure GmbH, Nexe. The Geoscientific Collection contains valuable collections of minerals, rocks and ores and often it opens the doors for kindergarden children, as well as to primary- and high school- students, coming from the various parts of Croatia.


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Courses

Undergraduate - courses

Courses
TITLE SEMESTER STUDY
General Mineralogy1University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Introduction To Mineralogy and Petrology1University undergraduate Mining Engineering
Principles of Mineralogy and Petrology1University undergraduate Petroleum Engineering
Applied Geology3University undergraduate Mining Engineering
Optical Mineralogy3University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Ore Deposits3University undergraduate Mining Engineering
Systematic Mineralogy3University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Applied Mineralogy and Petrology4University undergraduate Mining Engineering
Earth System History4University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Geochemistry4University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology4University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Environmental Geology5University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Environmental Geology5University undergraduate Mining Engineering
Sedimentary Petrology5University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Geology of Ore Deposits6University undergraduate Geological Engineering
Technical Petrography 16University undergraduate Geological Engineering

Graduate - courses

1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
1University doctoral Mining Engineering
Analyses of Mineral Parageneses1University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Applied Environmental Analysis1University graduate Environmental Geology
Clay Mineralogy1University graduate Geotehnical Engineering
Clay Mineralogy1University graduate Waste Management and Disposal
Environmental Geochemistry1University graduate Waste Management and Disposal
Environmental Geochemistry1University graduate Environmental Geology
Environmental Mineralogy1University graduate Environmental Geology
Industrial Mineral Deposits1University graduate Mining Engineering
Industrial Mineral Deposits1University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Sedimentology1University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Aquifer Sedimentology2University graduate Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
Aquifer Sedimentology2University graduate Environmental Geology
Deposits of Building Raw Materials2University graduate Mining Engineering
Deposits of Building Raw Materials2University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Environmental Monitoring2University graduate Environmental Geology
Geochemistry2University graduate General Petroleum Engineering
Geochemistry2University graduate Environmental Protection
Geochemistry2University graduate Energy Production and Supply
Methods in Sedimentary Petrology2University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Methods in Sedimentary Petrology2University graduate Environmental Geology
Mineral Deposit Exploration2University graduate Mining Engineering
Mineral Deposit Exploration2University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Technical Petrography 22University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Clay Mineralogy3University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Clay Mineralogy3University graduate Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
Clay Mineralogy3University graduate Environmental Geology
Environmental Geochemistry3University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Environmental Mineralogy3University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Instrumental Methods of Analysis3University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
Research Design in Environmental Protection3University graduate Environmental Geology
4University graduate Geology of Mineral Resources and Geophysical Explorations
4University graduate Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
4University graduate Environmental Geology

Projects

Projects

Project numberProject titleHead of projectSci. area