Born 1940/09/21, Croatia
Degrees:
- B.S. in Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, 1972
- M.S. in Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, 1979
- Ph.D. in Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, 1986
Working at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb
as:
- Technician in forest genetics and dendrology, 1961 - 1972
- Assistant in forest genetics, 1972 - 1981
- Assistant Professor in dendrology, 1981 - 1990
- Associate Professor in dendrology, 1990 - 1992
- Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Forestry, 1990 - 1992
- Professor in dendrology, horticultural dendrology and in cytogenetics from 1992
- Honorary Professor in Dendrology and Horticultural Nursery Practice at the Faculty of Agronomy, University of Zagreb, 1989 - 1991
Scholarship holder:
- Finland 1974, at the Forest Research Institute in genetics, cytogenetics
and dendrology
- USA 1981, OARDC, Wooster, Ohio, in forest genetics
- Germany 1996, At the Humbolt University Berlin, as DAAD scholarship
holder in ornamental dendrology
Research history:
- More than 90 papers, dealing with breeding of two-needle pines and
pine incompatibility, genetics of oaks, cytogenetics, dendrology,
urban forestry
- Organizer of the First IUFRO Cytogenetics Working Party S2.04.08
meeting held on Brijuni Islands, Croatia, in 1993
- Coorganizer and moderator at the IUFRO Cytogenetics Working Party
S2.04.08 meeting held during the XX IUFRO World Congress in Tampere,
1995
- Coorganizer of the Second IUFRO Cytogenetics Working Party S2.04.08
meeting held in Graz, Austria, in 1998
- Visiting Professor and Lecturer at the Karl-Franzens University
Graz, Austria in urban forestry and forestry, 1998/1999.
Foreign assignments:
- IUFRO Officeholder as Deputy Coordinator of the WP 2.04.08, 1992 -
1998, and Coordinator of the WP 2.04.08 from 1998
- Croatian representative in the Management Committee of the European
Commission COST Action E12 Urban Forests and Trees, 1997 - 2002
- Invited speaker at the Japanese Cytogenetical meeting in Kumamoto,
1996
- Invited speaker at the XXXVI Course in Ecology, at the University
of Padova, San Vito di Cadore, Italy, 1999
- Research visitor and reviewer in various countries. Associate editor
and reviewer of the Forest Genetics journal in the field of forest genetics,
tree improvement and cytogenetics
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