Roberto Antolović

Full Professor at the Faculty of Health Studies and the School of Medicine of the Catholic University of Croatia. He graduated from the University of Zagreb, and received his PhD in 1991., where he defended his dissertation entitled: "Study of the folding structure of the a-subunit of the Na,K-ATPase of pig kidneys with amino acid sequence-specific antibodies".

Since 2016, he has been a full professor at the University Department of Nursing, and from 2020., is on the position of the Vice-rector for Science. Before joining the Catholic University of Croatia, he worked at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb, and as an associate professor at the Institute of Biochemistry and Endocrinology of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen. Thereafter he spent ten years working in the private sector in the research laboratories of Pliva d.d. in Zagreb and GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company from the USA. He was one of the founder of the Department of Biotechnology and Drug Research at the University of Rijeka where he worked as a professor of biochemistry and pharmacology. He received several awards for his scientific, professional and work contribution to the institutions in which he worked.