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People.

Leadership

Prof. Nikola Mišković
Prof. Nikola Mišković, PhD
Director

Full Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) and head of its Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST). He has worked on more than 20 European projects and coordinated several, including CADDY, the first underwater robot built to work with divers. His research covers marine robotics, autonomous systems, and navigation, guidance and control.

Prof. Stjepan Bogdan
Prof. Stjepan Bogdan, PhD
Associate Director for R&D

Full Professor at FER's Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS). He has co-authored four books and more than 180 papers, and has led or worked on over 20 national and international projects. His research covers autonomous and aerial robotics, multi-agent systems and intelligent control. He was a Fulbright researcher in the USA.

Anđelko Katalenić
Anđelko Katalenić, PhD
Associate Director for Business

Holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology, on high-precision positioning control. Before MARBLE he led product and strategy at Gideon, a Croatian company building AI-based autonomous mobile robots. He has more than a decade of experience bringing robotics from research to product.

Research

Barbara Arbanas Ferreira
Barbara Arbanas Ferreira, PhD
Head of Research Department

Holds a PhD from FER on decentralised mission planning for teams of different robots, and is a researcher at LARICS. Her work covers multi-robot coordination and planning, distributed artificial intelligence and optimisation. She has worked on EU projects including subCULTron and EuRoC, and competed with the LARICS team at ERL Emergency Robots and MBZIRC.

Đula Nađ
Đula Nađ, PhD
Acting Head of Open Data · Experienced Researcher

Assistant Professor at FER and researcher at LABUST. His research covers navigation, guidance and control of underwater vehicles, localisation, and cooperation between divers and robots. He has worked on multiple European projects.

Engineering

Nadir Kapetanović
Nadir Kapetanović, PhD
Head of Engineering and RI Department

Holds a PhD from FER on full seabed coverage planning for autonomous marine vehicles using sonar data. As a LABUST researcher he worked on projects including BLUEMED, the NATO project MORUS and HEKTOR. His work covers path planning, model predictive control and state estimation for marine vehicles. At MARBLE he leads the team that builds and runs the pilot sites.

Frane Pamuković
Frane Pamuković, PhD
Pilot Sites Manager

Manages MARBLE's research pilot sites in Šibenik and Rijeka. He makes sure the sites are ready to use, maintained and well organised, so research, testing and demonstrations run smoothly with researchers, engineers, partners and suppliers. He has more than a decade of experience in research and industry, from leading experimental mechanics research and building physical products to work as an IT business analyst. He also co-founded an award-winning startup.

Operations

Fausto Ferreira
Fausto Ferreira, PhD
Acting Head of Research Support · Experienced Researcher

Assistant Professor at FER and researcher at LABUST. He has worked on 16 EU projects and two Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) projects, and holds more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and a patent. He is a senior member of IEEE, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and received the 2023 IEEE OES Distinguished Service Award. His research covers underwater computer vision, sonar processing and marine law for unmanned vehicles.

Marina Gajski
Marina Gajski
Head of General Services Department

Brings close to 18 years of experience in administration and project management. She previously headed the office of BIOCentre, the Zagreb incubation centre for biosciences, and worked as a project manager at SAFU. She also lectures on financial reporting in Horizon Europe projects.

Irena Horvat Knežević
Irena Horvat Knežević
Head of Financial Department
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