| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Public phone number: | 01/4895 426 |
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| Official web page URL: | https://www.pmf.unizg.hr/geog/jelena.loncar |
| Department: | GEOG - Division of Regional Geography and Methodic |
| Graduation year: | 2002 |
| PhD graduation year: | 2011 |
| Employed in this institution since: | 2005 |
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Jelena Lončar graduated in 2002 with the thesis "Processes of Globalization and Regionalization in Europe and Their Impact on Croatia". In 2005, she enrolled in the Postgraduate Study of Geographical Foundations of Spatial Planning and Development and was employed as a research assistant at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb. She collaborated on the projects "Regional-Geographical Research of Croatia" (2004-2007), "The Impact of Globalization and Transition on the Regional Development of Croatia" (2007-2009), and "Environmental Changes and Cultural Landscape as a Development Resource" (2009-2012). She completed her postgraduate studies in 2011 with the defense of her doctoral thesis entitled "Economic-Geographical Restructuring of Central Croatia in Conditions of Transition".
As part of the Central European exchange program for university studies CEEPUS, she visited several foreign universities from 2009 to 2019: the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy in Maribor, the Faculty of Geography, Tourism, Sports and Territorial Planning at the University of Oradea (Romania), the Department of Geography at Charles University in Prague and the Department of Geography in Brno. She also participated in Erasmus exchange at Geography Department of the University of Oulu (Finland). Since 2014, she has been actively involved in two projects financed by the European Union through the IPA program: Innovative urban strategies and action plans to increase the social and economic role for seniors - SILVER CITY, and Co-operation of SEE (Southeast European) science parks for the promotion of transnational market uptake of R&D results and technologies by SMEs.
From the academic year 2005/2006. participates in teaching at the Undergraduate study program of the Department of Geography, and since 2006/07. at the Graduate University Study Program in Geography. She is also actively involved in the Doctoral study in geography: space, region, environment, landscap. She participates in the organization and implementation of fieldwork and as a mentor for undergraduate and graduate papers. Her scientific interest and research are related to economic, industrial and political geography, as well as globalization and regional development.
She is actively involved in the organization of scientific conferences at the Department of Geography, and held lectures at professional conferences organized by the Croatian Geographical Society and participates. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Steering Commettee of Croatian Geographical Society. From 2024, she has been the editor of the professional journal Geografski horizont, and from 2026 editor in chief of scientific journal Croatian Geographical Bulletin.
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