Gordan Jelenic


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Dr. Gordan Jelenić je profesor uporabne mehanike na Univerzi v Rijeki, Fakulteti za gradbeništvo. Doktorat je pridobil leta 1993 na Univerzi v Ljubljani, nato pa je več kot deset let nabiral podoktorske izkušnje na Oddelku za aeronavtiko Imperial College London. Na Univerzo v Rijeki se je pridružil leta 2004. Njegova raziskovalna področja zajemajo alternativne teorije kontinuuma in numerično modeliranje mehanskih problemov na diferencialnih mnogoterostih. Objavil je skoraj šestdeset člankov v uglednih mednarodnih revijah, mentoriral enajst doktorskih študentov in vodil skoraj ducat raziskovalnih projektov v Veliki Britaniji, na Hrvaškem in v Evropski uniji. Med letoma 2021 in 2025 je zasedal mesto prorektorja za znanost in umetnost Univerze v Rijeki ter v tej vlogi koordiniral proces oblikovanja stališča Univerze v Rijeki glede prihodnjega okvirnega programa za raziskave in inovacije za obdobje 2028–2034. Aktivno sodeluje v nekaterih akademskih in državljanskih pobudah, namenjenih spodbujanju vrednot miru, nenasilja, protimilitarizma in protifašizma.





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Dr. Gordan Jelenić is Professor of applied mechanics at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He obtained his PhD in 1993. at the University of Ljubljana and had more than ten years of postdoctoral experience at Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics. He joined the University of Rijeka in 2004. His research interests lie in alternative continuum theories and numerical modelling of mechanical problems on differentiable manifolds. He published close to sixty papers in reputable international journals, supervised eleven PhD students and ran close to a dozen research projects in Great Britain, Croatia and European Union. Between 2021 and 2025 he held the position of Vice-Rector for Science and Arts of the University of Rijeka and in that capacity co-ordinated the process of establishing the University of Rijeka position on the future Framework programme for research and innovation for the period 2028-2034. He is active in a few academic and civic initiatives aimed at promoting the values of peace, non-violence, anti-militarisation and antifascism.