Biography

Mirko Stubičar, associate professor, was born on Oct. 21st, 1940 in Koprivnica. B. Sc. Thesis defended  1965 at  the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (PMF) of the University of Zagreb. M. Sc. Thesis with the title "Preparation and investigation of aluminium and aluminium-copper alloy single crystals" defended 1971 at PMF (University of Zagreb). D. Sc. Thesis with the title "Investigation of kinetics of decomposition of a quenched aluminium-silver alloys by measurements of some structural and mechanical properties" defended 1986 at PMF (University of Zagreb). After finishing the undergraduate study he was employed, firstly, at the Institute of Physics of the University of Zagreb, and then, since  Nov.1, 1965 up to now, at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (University of Zagreb). During 1990 he was staying as a visiting scientist (for eight months) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA) working in the groups of Prof. R.C. O'Handley and Prof. N.J. Grant. During 1991 (for six months)  he rewarded the stipend from the European Communities, and was staying  at the Powder Metallurgy Laboratories of the Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart working in the group of Prof. W.A. Kaysser. During 1990-1992 he established a Materialographic Laboratory at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and has studied experimentaly structural, microstructural, mechanical and other properties of materials prepared under nonequilibrium conditions. Now, he is in charge with auditory course Introductory Materials Science and laboratory courses: Experimental Exercises in Fundamental Physics 1 (Mechanics) and 2 (Electricity and Magnetism) for students training to have carrier as professors in a secondary school.  During the 2001/2 academic year at the Faculty of Metallurgy of the University of Zagreb in Sisak he was participating in the postgraduate courses giving lectures in the Physics of Metals. He has published alone or in collaboration more than 80 scientific or  professional papers in journals such as: Philosophical Magazine A, 55 (1987) 227; Journal of Materials Science, 14 (1979) 1245; Journal of Crystal Growth, 91 (1988) 423; Materials Science and Engineering A, 133 (1991) 127; Physical Review B, 49 (1994) 6967; etc. He attended with contributions to more than 60 domestic or international scientific meetings. During 1987/8 and 1988/9 he was giving lectures in Fundamental Physics 1 (Mechanics), 2 (Electricity and Magnetism), 3 (Waves and Optics) and 4 (Heat and Thermodynamics) at the Faculty of Education in Osijek, and also during 1992/3 - 1999/0 lectures in Physics at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod. Together with the other collaborators he published two textbooks for students in croatian language: Solved Problems in General Physics- Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism (Školska knjiga Zagreb, first ed. 1979 and second ed. 1989), and New Technologies (Strojarski fakultet u Slavonskom Brodu, 1998). He is member of several domestic and international professional societies.