At the graduation ceremony held on Saturday, April 25, 2026, Rector Prof. Stjepan Lakušić, PhD, promoted a total of 371 new doctors of science and doctors of arts from the University of Zagreb, among whom 25 were doctoral graduates from FER.

Our doctoral candidates contribute through their work to the development of technology, innovation, and solutions to contemporary societal challenges. Their expertise is recognized in fields such as biomedical engineering, sustainable energy, cybersecurity, and machine learning. A particular value is brought by doctoral research projects that transfer new knowledge and technologies into the business world.

At FER, around 40 young researchers obtain their doctorates each year, and the vast majority of them, up to 85 percent, remain in Croatia, where they contribute to the development of domestic industry and society through their knowledge and expertise.
 

List of doctoral candidates and their doctoral dissertations:

Bojana Barać - Enhancing power system resilience through fast frequency response of active electric power distribution system

Antonella Barišić Kulaš - Synthetic data and unsupervised domain adaptation for aerial object detection

Jakov Benjak - Low latency video coding in first-person view drone piloting system

Zorana Doždor - Deep architecture for action recognition in unsegmented sequences of keypoints based on attention mechanism 

David Dukić - Improving transfer learning for sequence labeling tasks by adapting pre-trained neural language models 

Matej Gjurković - A computational framework for interpretable text-based personality assessment from social media 

Josip Jukić - Improving data and parameter efficiency of neural language models using representation analysis 

Zvonimir Jurković - Fast calculation of inductances and 2D multi-step methodology for 3D magnetic field and losses calculation in power transformers

Hrvoje Keserica - Application and communication subsystem for aggregator-based control architectures in Smart Grid

Blaž Korotaj - Predictive control and coordination of a drinking water treatment plant and the water distribution system 

Vlatka Kos Grabar Robina - Methodology for early preliminary energy balance development with partially available energy data

Ivan Lončar - Acoustic localisation of underwater sensors using cooperative unmanned marine vessels

Marija Miletić - Scheduling of active customers and battery energy storage considering activation of frequency containment reserve 

Nikica Perić - Modular coordination of predictive vehicle routing and bin packing 

Karlo Petrović - Methods of vibroacoustic characterization and noise source localization in power transformers 

Lucija Planinić - Improving automated design of dispatching rules in the unrelated machines environment 

Kristijan Poje - Decision-making using the Delphi method supported by agent-modeled experts implemented with large language models 

Vicko Prkačin - Nonlinear control and state estimation of a tethered unmanned aerial vehicle

Goran Rajić - Transformation of multilevel modeling languages into institution based formalism

Anica Šešok - Improvement of power system transient stability using flexible shunt compensation devices

Dubravko Tomić - Glide-shifted dielectric and metallic structures for microwave lenses and leaky-wave antennas 

Filip Vrbanc - Coordinated distributed model predictive control of zones and energy storage units in a building 

Lovro Vrček - De novo genome assembly based on graph convolutional neural networks

Neven Vukadinović - Power transmission network planning for new users connection under uncertainty 

Filip Zorić - Semi-autonomous aerial manipulation for service and maintenance tasks