Professor Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an honorary professor of the University of Rijeka, was listed as the second highest cited expert in the world on astrocytes - one of four types of glial cells found throughout the entire central nervous system - based on his research in the subdiscipline over the past ten years and from an analysis of the PubMed database. “Numerically, this means to be...

Rector of the University of Rijeka, Prof. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Ph.D., was declared "Woman of the Year" by the "Zaposlena" magazine. The award ceremony was held yesterday, July 12, 2022, on the terrace of the Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb, under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia. Upon receiving the award, Rector Prijić-Samaržija stated: Recognition of work fills women with satisfaction. A busy woman is the one who works. All nominees deserve this award equally. T...

A writer, professor, and more recently a mountain climber who looks at the world with eyes wide open and marvels at it innocently, Prof. Nikola Petković is an inexhaustible source of topics, ideas, observations, and dilemmas such as issues of intellectual property, copyright in cyber reality, overcoming the limitations that new reality imposes on us as we try to adjust. Professor Petković tells us solidarity has proven to be one of the sure solutions. Professor Nikola Petković, Ph.D., is a full pr...

Three weeks ago, Professor Alan Šustić, Ph.D., was appointed Head of the COVID-19 Viral Infection Respiratory Center. He and his team have continued to invest maximum professional and human effort in this unprecedented and until the recently unimaginable situation in a global society. Hence, they adapt to the new situation the best they can. Alan Šustić is a professor with tenure, and more widely known as a doctor with two specializations – anesthesiology and intensive care, as well as those i...

We are happy to announce that we are introducing a new section, Our People, on our official website. The section represents individuals in our university community whose work, especially now in the new circumstances of seeking to prevent the spread of COVID-19, is significant and important to the community, our safety, maintenance and functioning of the system. The dedication and effort of such individuals often remain "under the r...