Title: | Assistant Professor |
Location: | 335 |
Public phone number: | 01/4895 431 |
E-mail: | |
Department: | GEOG - Division of Physical Geography |
Graduation year: | 2019 |
PhD graduation year: | 2024 |
Employed in this institution since: | 2020 |
Marin Mićunović was born on July 9, 1995, in Split, Croatia, where he completed his primary and secondary school. In the academic year 2014/2015, he enrolled in the undergraduate university programme in Geography (research specialisation) at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, which he completed in 2017 by defending his bachelor's thesis Recent Morphological Changes of the Zogon Beach (Sveta Nedjelja, Hvar) under the supervision of Professor Sanja Faivre, PhD. In the academic year 2017/2018, he enrolled in the graduate university programme in Geography (research specialisation, module: Physical Geography with Geoecology) at the same faculty, completing it in 2019 with the master’s thesis Geomorphological Properties of Beaches on the Island of Hvar, also under the supervision of Professor Sanja Faivre, PhD. That same year, he began his doctoral studies in Geography and earned his PhD in 2024 by defending his dissertation Beach Vulnerability Assessment at the Island of Hvar, developed within the project SEALeveL – Relative Sea-Level Change and Climate Change along the Eastern Adriatic Coast (project leader: Professor Sanja Faivre, PhD), funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.
During his doctoral studies, he undertook professional training in the fields of geomorphology, geomorphological mapping, and remote sensing, participating in workshops and summer and winter schools in Windsor (United Kingdom, 2021, British Society for Geomorphology), the University of Innsbruck (2022), the University of Gdańsk (2022 and 2025), and the University of Palermo (2023).
He is the recipient of the 2024 Annual Science Award of the Faculty of Science, the Award for Excellence in Doctoral Studies for scientific achievements from the Council of the Doctoral Programme in Geography at the Faculty of Science in 2021 and 2024, and the Brdo Student Award in 2022 and 2025.
His main scientific interests include coastal geomorphology, karst geomorphology, GIS, remote sensing, and climate change.
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