The management board of the Catholic University of Croatia with the rector prof. Željko Tanjić, PhD, consists of:
prof. Gordan Črpić, PhD, Vice-Rector for Organization and Business,
prof. Roberto Antolović, PhD, Vice-Rector for Science,
prof. Roko Mišetić, PhD, Vice-Rector for Teaching,
prof. Jasna Ćurković Nimac, PhD, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation,
prof. Ante Crnčević, PhD, Vice-Rector for Quality, Identity and Mission.
Contact:
Phone: +385 1 370 66 24
Email: rektorat@unicath.hr
Prof. Gordan Črpić, PhD, graduated in 1990 in electrical engineering from the "Rade Končar" Higher Technical School in Zagreb. In 1996, he graduated in theology at the Institute for Theological Culture of the Laity of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Zagreb, and in 1997 in sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb.
He obtained his master's degree in social sciences (sociology), in 2002 at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. At the same Faculty, he obtained the title of Doctor of Science in the field of social sciences, field of sociology, branch of special sociology in 2009. His master's thesis was on the topic "Religiosity of students in the Republic of Croatia", and his doctoral thesis was on the topic "The influence of religiosity on the individual and social dimension of morality in Croatia".
Before working at the Catholic University of Croatia, until 2014, he worked at the Center for the Promotion of Social Doctrine of the Church of the Croatian Bishops' Conference: from 1997 to 2003 as general secretary, and from 2004 to 2014 as head of the Center (from 2011 year, by transferring to the Catholic University of Croatia, he performs this service on a voluntary basis). From 1998 to 2003, he worked as the editor of the social program of the Croatian Catholic Radio.
He is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), the International Society for the Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe (ISORECEA). He is registered in the register of scientists at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia under the number 248676. Some of his works fall into the interdisciplinary field of sociology, social science of the Church and social policy, and relate to the topics of poverty, solidarity, voluntariness, subsidiarity, reconciliation and forgiveness. and other current social issues. In the texts of this thematic group. Črpić also focuses on thinking about specific models of change, i.e. improving the social reality of Croatia in the context of overall European social processes.
Prof. Roberto Antolović, PhD, graduated in 1987 from the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Zagreb. In 1988, he went to doctoral studies at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, where he received his doctorate in 1991 in the field of biochemistry and research into the structure of the membrane protein Na+/K+-ATPase, the isolation of endogenous cardiac glycosides and their interaction with the receptor - Na+/K+-ATPase. After his doctorate, he worked for 4 years as an assistant at the Justus Liebig Institute of Biochemistry and Endocrinology of the University of Giessen on the topic of characterization of cardiac glycoside receptors. In 1995, as an EMBA scholarship holder, he goes to the Faculty of Medicine in Lausanne, where he works as a visiting scientist at the Institute for Experimental Medicine. and clinical pharmacology and toxicology of the University of Loussana. Using the methods of molecular biology, protein chemistry and biochemistry, he investigates the properties of receptors for cardiac glycosides and works on elucidating the position of the binding site of cardiac glycosides on the Na/K-ATPase.
From Switzerland, he returned to the Institute of Biochemistry and Endocrinology of the Justus Liebig University, to the position of Professor C2, and in 1999, at the invitation of Pliva, he returned to the Research Institute of Pliva, where he worked for 6 years in managerial positions in the research of new drugs, since 2005. continues his career at GlaxoSmithKline where he holds a management position in the field of biology on anti-inflammatory drug projects and the development of new antibiotics of the macrolide class of compounds. After three years of work at GSK, he moved to the position of full professor at the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Rijeka. In 2016, he came to the Catholic University of Croatia as a professor in the Department of Nursing as a full professor. Since 2017, he has been the president of the Croatian Microbiological Society and on several occasions the president of the Organizing Committees of international scientific meetings.
For his work and scientific achievements, prof. Antolović received several awards, the most important of which are: 1994 "Karl-Pfizer - this award for exceptional young scientists; 2001 he received the annual Pliva award, and in 2007 and 2008 he was awarded the bronze and silver medals of GlaxoSmithKline -and.
Prof. Antolović is a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine "Food Technology and Biotechnology". In his scientific opus, prof. Antolović has over 30 papers published in international scientific journals and is the co-author of several student textbooks in the field of immunology. He presented his scientific work at numerous domestic and international congresses, and participated in 15 congresses as an invited lecturer. So far, his works have been cited more than 1000 times.
Prof. Roko Mišetić, PhD, was born in 1969 in Kotor (Montenegro). He received his primary education in Tivat, and his secondary education in Kotor. He graduated from the Geography Department of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb and received his doctorate in the field of interdisciplinary sciences in the field of geography. He is engaged in scientific activity, working for ten years at the Institute for Migration and Nationalities in Zagreb and since 2012 at the Catholic University of Croatia. He started teaching in 2008 as an assistant external associate at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, where he still teaches today. At the Catholic University of Croatia from year 2012/2013 he teaches at undergraduate university studies in sociology and history, as well as graduate and postgraduate university studies in sociology. From 2020 he is teaching at the Demography and Croatian emigration study at the Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. He held the position of President of the Scientific Council at the Institute for Migration and Nationalities, and Deputy Head and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of Croatia. So far, he has published around 30 scientific and professional papers and two books and participated in 25 scientific meetings in Croatia and abroad. His area of scientific interest is demography, demogeography, GIS and spatial planning.
Prof. Jasna Ćurković Nimac, PhD, received her doctorate in moral theology in 2008 at the Pontificio Istituto Superiore di Teologia Morale, Accademia Alfonsiana, at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, in the field of memory ethics. From 2009 to 2011, she worked as a research associate at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences in Pula, and from 2011 at the same Institute in Zagreb as a senior research associate. Since 2016, she has been employed as a professor at the Catholic University of Croatia, at the Department of Communication sciences, and she also teaches at the Department of Sociology and leads doctoral seminars at the sociology doctoral program. As a visiting professor, she spent one semester in 2023 at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA. She is a member of the European Society for Research in Ethics "Societas Ethica", Memory Studies Association, Global Ethics Network "Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church", and a member of the working group "Memory & Identity" at the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU). She participated in various scientific research projects. She is the author of numerous scientific and professional works and a translator of books from English and Italian. Her research interests include the areas of ethics and neuroethics of memory, the impact of new technologies and artificial intelligence on individual and collective memory, Christian ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy of communication, and ethics of intercultural communication.
Prof. Ante Crnčević, PhD, is a priest and a member of the Franciscan Province of the Holy Redeemer (Split). He was ordained a priest in 1993. He completed his graduate studies in theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Zagreb, and his studies in liturgical sciences at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Pontificio ateneo Sant'Anselmo) in Rome, where he received his doctorate in 1999. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as an external associate at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Zagreb, and was employed at the same university from 2002 to 2024. In 2020, he was elected to the position of full professor. He was the head of the Department of Liturgy (2007-2024) and head of the Institute for Church Music of the Catholic Faculty of Theology (2017-2020 and 2023-2024).
He participated in several scientific competitive and institutional projects, presented at a number of international and domestic scientific meetings, published four books and a number of scientific and professional works on liturgical topics. He was the head of the Croatian Institute for Liturgical Pastoral Care at the Croatian Bishops' Conference and editor-in-chief of the liturgical-pastoral newspaper "Živo vrelo" (2003-2020). Within the framework of the Second Synod of the Zagreb Archdiocese, he was a member of the Working Body for the preparation of Documentum laboris and a member of the Presidency of the Synod. In ac. in the year 2022/2023. spent a study semester (sabbatical) at the University of Notre Dame (Nanovic Institute for European Studies), USA.