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University Senate

The University Senate is an elected professional and managerial body whose members represent different scientific-educational and artistic-educational constituents, and diverse scientific and artistic areas. It also includes student representatives at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate level. The Rector participates in the Senate by virtue of his/her position. The Senate decides on all academic, scientific, artistic and professional matters, and manages topics of general development. On top of its members, the Senate’s workings include Vice-Rectors, Rector’s Assistants, the Secretary General, and the union representative for science and higher education.    

University of Rijeka Senate Members:

1. Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., Rector of the University of Rijeka 
2. Prof. Art. Hrvoje Urumović, Dean of the Academy of Applied Arts 
3. Prof. Saša Drezgić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business
4. Prof. Marko Perić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management 
5. Prof. Daniela Malnar, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Health Studies
6. Prof. Aleksandar Mijatović, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
7. Assoc. Prof. Mladen Bulić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering 
8. Prof. Goran Hauser, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 
9. Prof. Sonja Pezelj-Ribarić, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Dental Medicine
10. Assoc. Prof. Ana Perić Hadžić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Maritime Studies 
11. Prof. Dario Đerđa, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Law 
12. Prof. Lado Kranjčević, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Engineering 
13. Prof. Darko Lončarić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Teacher Education
14. Prof. Rajka Jurdana Šepić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Physics
15. Prof. Patrizia Poščić, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Digital Technologies
16. Prof. Dean Crnković, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics 
17. Prof. Miranda Mladinić Pejatović, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development
18. Goran Manestar, Director of the Student Center of the University of Rijeka 
19. Lea Lazzarich, Director of the University Library Rijeka 

Student representatives with the right to vote:
20. Lana Par, student, Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development, President of the Student Council of the University of Rijeka
21. Eugen Car, student, Faculty of Medicine
22. Rea Žigant, student, Faculty of Informatics and Digital Technologies

Prof. Ines Mrakovčić-Šutić, Ph.D., representative of the Independent Union of Science and Higher Education

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