Durn Goran, F.C.A.
Date of birth:
- 05/25/1962
Place of birth:
- Zagreb
Addresses:
- Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb
Phones:
- +385 01 5535 793
- +385 01 4895 171
Emails:
Durn Goran, F.C.A.
Academic titles:
- Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Doctor of Science
Institutions:
- Professor with tenure – Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb
- dean – Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, University of Zagreb (2005. – 2009.)
Functions in Academy:
- secretary – Department of Natural Sciences ( 1/1/2023 – …)
- member of the Presidency – Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1/1/2023 – …)
- deputy secretary – Department of Natural Sciences (01/01/2019 – 12/31/2022)
- chair – National INQUA Committee (03/27/2019 – 03/28/2023)
- chair – Scientific Council for Nature and Environmental Protection (09/25/2019 – …)
- secretary – Scientific Council for Nature and Environmental Protection (2015 – 2019)
Membership in Academy:
- full member – Department of Natural Sciences (05/12/2016 – …)
- associate member – Department of Natural Sciences (05/15/2014 – 05/12/2016)
Curriculum Vitae
Goran Durn was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1962. He holds a doctorate in geology from the University of Zagreb. He is a full professor at the University of Zagreb, where he teaches at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering in the graduate and doctoral programmes and at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology. He is supervisor of numerous diploma theses, one master thesis and seven doctoral theses and member of the committees for diploma and doctoral theses at the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Agriculture, the Freie Univesität Berlin, Germany, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria. He has been a visiting researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna, the Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest and the Comenius University in Bratislava, as well as a visiting scientist at several universities/institutes in Europe and around the world. He is interested in mineralogy, geochemistry and micromorphology of paleosols at regional unconformities in carbonate rocks as well as environmental mineralogy. He is particularly interested in the study of clay minerals in paleosols, which are sensitive indicators of the geochemical environment of pedogenesis and diagenesis and can therefore be used for paleonvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions. He is also involved in the study of the natural habitat of carbapenem-resistant bacteria (soils affected by illegal landfills, technosols, swine manure and river ecosystems). He has published more than 100 scientific papers. His publications on terra rossa soils are among the most cited publications worldwide on the genesis of this soil type. He has actively participated as leader or collaborator in ten international/bilateral projects, one FP7 project, seven domestic scientific projects and three Croatian Science Foundation projects. He was president or member of the scientific committee of nine international scientific conferences and member of the organising committee of two international scientific conferences. He has given about ten invited lectures at scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Geologia Croatica and a reviewer for Geoderma, Catena, Clay Science, Applied Clay Science, Chemical Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Quaternary International, Quaternary Science Journal, Journal of the Geological Society, International Journal of Speleology, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Geologia Carpatica and Environmental Geology. He was guest editor (with Manfred Frechen from the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany) of a special issue of the Elsevier journal Quaternary International, published in 2018 under the title Quaternary of Croatia (vol. 494). He was Vice Dean for Teaching and Students (2001 – 2005) and Dean (2005 – 2009) of the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering, President of the Croatian Clay Group (2004 – 2007), representative of the Croatian Clay Group in the European Clay Groups Association (2005 – 2007), President of the Scientific Committee for Geology (2017 – 2023), President of the National Committee of INQUA (2019 – 2024) and representative of the Croatian Geological Society in the European Federation of Geologists within the Euroages project (2007 – 2011). He is the President of the Scientific Council for Nature and Environmental Protection of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2019 – ). He is an expert of the European Commission for the evaluation of scientific projects in geosciences and the environment. He received the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 2011 and the City of Zagreb Award in 2019. In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. As an interpreter for the Croatian Liaison Office in the European Commission Monitoring Mission, during 1991 and 1992 he visited almost all areas affected by aggression during the war in Croatia.