Prof.
Snježana Mihalić Arbanas
principal investigator
Leader for WG1 „Project Management“
She is a Full Professor on the Chair for Engineering Geology at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb. She graduated in 1990 on a common study of Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering and the Faculty of Science at the University of Zagreb. She got her master’s degree in 1996 and PhD in 2000. Since 1992 she is working at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering.
Fields of her scientific research are related to creating landslide maps and landslide monitoring. From significant science projects, the following stand out: participating in a Croatian-Japanese project SATREPS FY2008 “Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia” as a vice project leader and a work group leader, as well as leading an european project funded by ERDF “Applied landslide research for the development of risk mitigation and prevention measures, PRI-MJER”. She is a co-coordinator of the “Croatian Landslide group”, a scientific group of landslide scientists with members from the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb and Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka. She is a coordinator of the regional research network “ICL Adriatic-Balkan Network (ICL ABN)”, a board member of International Consortium on Landslides (2012-today), and a co-coordinator, i.e. coordinator of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (2014-2017, 2017-2020, 2020-2023).
She is a member or leader of several work groups at the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets or the City of Zagreb. Besides scientific work, she participated in developing more than 50 engineering geology / geotechnical studies in the field of landslide research and stabilization.
She authored more than 150 scientific works in international journals, books and conference proceedings, as well as mentoring 53 PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s thesis. List of all works in the CROSBI database.
PhD
Sanja Bernat Gazibara
vice principal investigator
Leader for WG3 „Development of landslide susceptibility assessment method“
She is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Chair for Engineering Geology at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb. She graduated in 2011, and in 2019 she obtained her PhD degree at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb.
Her scientific interests are related to the visual and automatic landslide mapping from high-resolution LiDAR-imagery. She has been involved in four scientific projects related to landslides: (i) Croatian-Japanese project SATREPS FY2008 “Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia”; (ii) Croatian-Austrian bilateral project ”Clay mineralogy in landslide hazard assessment”; (iii) european project ECHO „Resilient European Communities against Local Landslides, RECALL”; (iv) european project funded by by ERDF “Applied landslide research for the development of risk mitigation and prevention measures, PRI-MJER”. Within the “Project on Risk Identification and Land-use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia”, she was involved in the development of landslide inventories using remote sensing techniques followed by the development of methodologies of landslide hazard analysis and zonation in three pilot areas in Croatia. During her doctoral research, she gained experience in fundamentals in landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk assessment while participated at the International school on Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation (LARAM) at the Salerno University, Salerno, Italy.
She is a member of a work group at the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets. Besides scientific work, she participated in developing more than 30 engineering geology / geotechnical studies in the field of landslide research and stabilization.
She authored more than 40 scientific works in international journals, books and conference proceedings, as well as mentoring 13 Master’s and Bachelor’s thesis. List of all works in the CROSBI database.
Assoc. Prof.
Martin Krkač
Science coordinator
Leader for WG2 „Preparation of input data“
He is Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. He graduated in 2005 at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb and finished PhD studies in 2015 at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb.
His research interests are landslides, especially landslide monitoring and remote sensing. He has been involved in seven scientific projects related to landslides: (i) european project INTERREG/CARDS-PHARE „Mitigation of the Earthquakes Effects in Towns and in INdustrial reGional districts, M.E.E.T.I.N.G.“; (ii) Croatian-Serbian bilateral project „Virtual Geohazard Data center, geohazardINFO”; (iii) Croatian-Japanese project SATREPS FY2008 “Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia”; (iv) Croatian-Austrian bilateral project ”Clay mineralogy in landslide hazard assessment”; (v) european project ECHO „Resilient European Communities against Local Landslides, RECALL”; (vi) ICL/IPL project “Kostanjek landslide monitoring project (Zagreb, Croatia)”; (vii) european project funded by by ERDF “Applied landslide research for the development of risk mitigation and prevention measures, PRI-MJER”. Within the “Project on Risk Identification and Land-use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia” he was involved in establishment of the field observatory for a landslide monitoring (Kostanjek landside) equipped with more than 40 geodetic, geotechnical and hydrogeological sensors. Through these activities, he gained experience in the field of landslide monitoring and mapping. Currently he is a leader of IPL project “Kostanjek landslide monitoring project (Zagreb, Croatia)” and vice project leader of project PRI-MJER.
He is a member of a work group in the City of Zagreb. Besides scientific work, he participated in developing more than 40 engineering geology / geotechnical studies in the field of landslide research and stabilization.
He authored more than 70 scientific works in international journals, books and conference proceedings, as well as mentoring 17 Master’s and Bachelor’s thesis. List of all works in the CROSBI database.
PhD
Petra Jagodnik
Leader for WG4 „Dissemination and outreach activities“
She graduated in 2006, and in 2018 she obtained her PhD degree at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb. Since 2008 until 2011 she has been employed as an engineering geologist at the Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia. Since 2011 until 2016, she has been employed at the Geotechnical Chair of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, where she held the position of a Young Researcher in the frame of Croatian-Japanese bilateral project “Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia”. Since 2016, she is holding the position of a Senior Lecturer and she is holding lectures on several undergraduate and graduate courses.
During her doctoral research, she gained experience in the basic principles of geomorphological and landslide mapping using remote sensing techniques, in the frame of JICA Training and Dialogue Program for young researchers from the field of geotechnical and geological engineering at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Regional Management, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan. She participated in several scientific projects related to landslide research, most important being: (i) Croatian-Japanese project SATREPS FY2008 “Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia”; (ii) Croatian Science Foundation project „Physical modelling of landslide remediation constructions behaviour under static and seismic actions”; (iii) european project funded by ERDF “Applied landslide research for the development of risk mitigation and prevention measures, PRI-MJER“. She also gained experience in fundamentals in landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk assessment while participated at the International school on Landslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation (LARAM) at the Salerno University, Salerno, Italy. Her scientific interests are related to the visual interpretation of the high-resolution LiDAR-imagery, with the main focus on engineering geological and geomorphological mapping.
During her employment at the Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia she participated in developing dozens of geotechnical reports and studies (foundation, tunnels, landslide stabilization etc.) as an engineering geologist.
She authored more than 35 scientific works in international journals, books and conference proceedings, as well as mentoring 13 Master’s and Bachelor’s thesis. List of all works in the CROSBI database.
Prof.
Željko Arbanas
Leader for WG5 „Verification and application of results“
He is Full Professor of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka. He graduated in 1982 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka and took MSc (2002) and PhD (2004) at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb. He was employed as a geotechnical engineer at Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia (1986-2010). He is Head of the Geotechnical Chair and he was vice-dean for postdoctoral studies (2007-2012) and studies (2012-2015) at the Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Rijeka.
His current research activity is focused on landslide investigation and stabilization, landslide monitoring technology, and geotechnical modelling. He was a member, work group leader and project leader of several international and national science projects, most important being Croatian-Japanese SATREPS FY2008 project „Risk Identification and Land-Use Planning for Disaster Mitigation of Landslides and Floods in Croatia“. Currently he is a leader of one international ICL/IPL project „Rockfall hazard identification and rockfall protection in the coastal zone of Croatia“ and one Croatian Science Fundation national project „Physical modelling of landslide remediation constructions behaviour under static and seismic actions”. He is a board member of International Consortium on Landslides (2012-today), and a co-coordinator, i.e. coordinator of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (2014-2017, 2017-2020, 2020-2023). He is Assistant Editor in Chief of the Landslides Journal since 2012, and as of 2017 he is a vice president of the International Consortium on Landslides.
During his employment at the Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia he participated in developing several hunderds of geotechnical reports and studies (foundation, tunnels, landslide stabilization etc.) as a project designer and project manager. Besides the scientific work, he is continuously participating in professional work as a project designer and a consultant.
He authored more than 180 scientific works in international journals, books and conference proceedings, as well as mentoring around 70 PhD, Master’s and Bachelor’s thesis. List of all works in the CROSBI database.
MSc.
Marko Sinčić
Junior Researcher – Assistant
PhD fellow
He graduated in 2020 at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb. Since October 2020 he is working as a Junior Researcher – Assistant at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering on the Croatian Science Foundation project LandSlidePlan. He is a PhD student on a Postgraduate University (Doctoral) Study Programme in Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka.
During his studies he showed interest for spatial analyses in geographic information system (GIS). During a student internship at GIS Cloud d.o.o he developed an individual GIS project on the topic of hydrology data base for the Karlovac County area which he presented during SmartAqua digital agenda. In 2019 he received a Rector’s award for creating an individual scientific work titled „Planned water supply system Ježdovec – aquifer vulnerability maps and planned hydro power plants influence on groundwater table“. He finished a student internship „ADRIA“ in the field of Geological Engineering which lasted for two months at the company IBIS inženjering d.o.o with excellect results and mentor recommendation. During his graduate studies he received a Dean’s award for excellence. In 2020 he finished his studies by defending his Master thesis titled „Landslide susceptibility assessment of Karlovac City using bivariate statistics methodology“ with excellent success.
Based on the success during his studies, he received scolarship from the City of Karlovac and the Nikola Tesla fundation. He is actively participaing in developing erasmus+ projects by volunteering in Institute of Youth Power Croatia NGO.
MSc.
Hrvoje Lukačić
Research Assistant
He graduated in 2018 from the Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Zagreb with a degree in Mining – Geotechnics and in 2020 with a degree in Geological Engineering – Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology. From 2020 to 2021 he worked as an engineering geologist in the company Geotehnički studio d.o.o. Since August 2021, he has been employed as an Research and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Zagreb.
He gained experience in implementing remote sensing methods in engineering geology during his graduate studies in Geological Engineering and professional training within the Erasmus + trainee program at the Technical University of Graz at the Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling. During his student internship at the Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling, he participates in the engineering geological mapping of the Gleinalm tunnel using remote sensing methods.
The graduate study of Mining – Geotechnics ends in 2018 with the defense of the thesis entitled “Development of a computer program for the test of uniaxial compressive strength and deformability of materials with cyclic loading and unloading” with great success. The graduate study of Geological Engineering – Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology ends in 2020 with the defense of the thesis under “Engineering geological mapping of rock mass in the Špičunak (Gorski kotar) section using remote sensing”. During his studies, he was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence four times and five times won a scholarship for gifted students at the University of Zagreb.
During employment in the company Geotehnički studio d.o.o. as an engineering geologist he participated in the preparation of several dozen geotechnical reports for foundations, tunnels, landslide remediation, and rock notches. He is a member of the Croatian Geotechnical Society and the International Society of Rock Mechanics.