Curriculum vitae: Darko Androić, PhD

Darko Androić was born in Sisak on May 20, 1961. He finished elementary and high school in Petrinja in 1975 and 1979, respectively, when he enrolled at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb; physics, engineering direction. In 1980 he enrolled in the study of mathematics, professional major, at the same faculty. In 1985 he regulated his military conscription, and after that, in the period from 1986 to 1991, he worked as a physics teacher at several high schools in Sisak, Petrinja and Zagreb. In 1992, he finished studying physics with an average grade of 4.41.

In the same year, he became a research assistant at the Physical Institute of the Faculty of Science in Zagreb and enrolled in the postgraduate study of elementary particle physics. In 1995 he regulated the educational part of the postgraduate study with a group examination, and in 2000 he completed his doctoral studies by defending a dissertation entitled: "Multiparticle emission after pion absorption in nuclei". From 1992 to 1999 he regularly and repeatedly resided at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland for a total of over two years. In the period from 1992 to 1996 he was employed as a junior researcher, and since 1996 as an assistant at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science. After his doctorate, he worked as a senior assistant, and since 2002 as an assistant professor. After his election to the title of senior research associate, since 2010, he has been working as an associate professor at the Physical Institute (now the Department of Experimental Physics) of the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science in Zagreb.

After obtaining his Doctorate of Science, Darko Androić has repeatedly participated in scientific and study stays for a total period of over three years in scientific activities at national laboratories in the United States. First working on the problem of kaon production of hypernuclei on the line of C AGS accelerators at BNL, and then from 2000 to the present on experiments of electron production strangeness on JLabu. Since 2006, Darko Androić's stays at TJNAF (Thomas Jeffeson National Accelerator Facility) have been related to the G0 experiment, which investigates nonconservation of parity  in collisions of polarized electron beams with protons.

Since 2008, the scientific activity of Dr. Darko Androić has also been related to the Q-weak experiment. The Q-weak collaboration designed a unique detector system for measuring nonconservation of parity in collisions of polarized electrons with protons, and on two occasions realized extensive and long-term measurements. The results of that experiment in 2018 were published in the prestigious journal Nature in the article "Precision measurement of the weak charge of the proton". The article provides, the most accurate yet, a measure of the weak charge of protons. The complexity of the experiment is also manifested in the fact that the parity nonconservation, with an unreliability of one standard deviation, was measured by an error of less than one in ten million. This measurement confirmed the validity of the Standard Model in complementary mode than that in which CERN detectors operate, but also demonstrated the potential of precise experiments in searching for physics beyond the Standard Model.

With the Q-weak experiment TJNAF concludes in 2012 the era of the 6 GeV electron beam. In the period of accelerator upgrade at TJNAF, Darko Androić participates in planning and proposing new experiments for the upcoming period of 12 GeV electron beam.

The era of experimental measurements using the 12 GeV beam begins in the fall of 2014 with the third generation of Deep Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS in Hall A@JLab) experiments, and a GMP experiment that precisely measures the elastic cross-section of protons at large Q2. In 2017 and 2018, hall A collaboration measurements on a tritium target follow: Marathon run. In 2019, activities continue in the detector (spectrometer) redesigned C drive. Hall C collaboration experiments focus on the dispersion of a high-energy polarized electron beam on the laser polarized target 3He. In 2022, the first measurement results were published. Program guidelines for future experimental activities are extensively presented in the document "The Present and Future of QCD", co-authored by Dr. Darko Androić, in addition to numerous physicists from the USA, the only one from Croatia.

Since 2002. Darko Androić continuously teaches General Physics, first in the role of the head of the course "Introduction to General Physics" for mathematicians, and currently teaches the course of the same name for professors of mathematics. He is a longtime head of the "Computer Networks" course. For this course, he designed a practicum, and realized a series of practical exercises in operating systems and computer networking. He also demonstrated teaching competences by leading, over three years, a group of methodical courses: Methodology of physics teaching with seminars and practical classes. He was a 10-year holder of the seminar "Modern Techniques in Physics" for mathematics students. He is currently the holder of the course "Experimental Methods of Modern Physics".

Darko Androić, as a member of HFD, co-led the European FP6 project 516938 (WYP2005 EUROPE). Dealing with the topic of historical physical experiments, he revitalized some resources of the rich Collection of the Physical Institute of the Faculty of Science. From 1998 until his discontinuation, he was web editor of the journal PHYSICS and its CD issue Physics A&B. He led two (24[2008] and 25.[2009]) Summer Schools of Young Physicists of HFD. In 2005-2009, he was a member of the HFD Board of Directors. He was the head of the international, Leonardo da Vinci - transfer of innovations, project INFIRO (Integrated physics approach to Robotics Designed Laboratory) in the first year when LdV activity was offered to Croatian scientists. In the period from 2013 to 2016, he coordinated the partner tasks of the University of Zagreb in hope collaboration, another international educational project from the corpus of the LdV program, and successfully, in 2015, organized an annual conference in Zagreb.

Darko Androić worked in the commission for the development of Bologna programs at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Science. He is the proposer of the curricular content of the courses to which he is the holder and their variants in English. As a coordinator for Croatia, he was included in the EPS (European Physics Society) project monitoring and evaluation of the outcomes of the Bologna process Reforms into Physics Studies in Europe. He was twice the coordinator and head of the Faculty of Science at the University Fair. He was chairman of the HNOS Judgment Commission. He was the head of the Commission for qualitative analysis of the implementation of national exams in physics at the National Center for External Evaluation of Education and a member of the State Commission for Competitions in Informatics. He is a member of the Reference Group for Space at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports.

Darko Androić is married, has two children and was a participant in the Homeland War. He speaks English and also speaks Spanish. He is a columnist for several domestic portals and is the author of two published books of short essays.