Neven Duić (born April 1965) is a Croatian engineering professor at the University of Zagreb and vice president of the Croatian Academy of Engineering.
Neven Duić belongs to the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world for 2020 and 2021 years, according to the public list prepared by a group of researchers from Stanford University using Scopus database.
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He published over 650 scientific papers, of which 178 in the journals listed in Science Citation Index Expanded.[1]
His scientific papers have been cited over 6,500 times in Scopus[4] and over 6400 times in WoS.,[5]H-index according to the Scopus database is 45,[4] and according to WoS database 46.[5]
He gave more than 170 invited and keynote lectures.[6]
He has participated in over 100 scientific and professional projects, mainly international projects, in the areas of energy policy and planning, energy economics, policy of sustainable development and resource planning, climate change mitigation, combustion engineering and modelling, research and innovation policy.
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He is active in various media, participating at round tables[8] public lectures,[9]
radio and TV shows.[10][11]
Prof. Duić is the president of SDEWES Centre since 2009, and Co-chair of SDEWES International Scientific Committee,[14] as well.
He was the president of the Adria Section of the Combustion Institute (ASCI) in the term 2008-2018 and since 2018 he is the member of the Management Board.
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He has organised the series of conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) and was a member of organising, scientific and programming committees of more than 70 scientific meetings.[1]
Since 2021, he has been a co-chair of the Energy steering panel of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC),[16]
and since 2019 year, a deputy member of the Innovation Council for Industry of the Republic of Croatia at the National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development.[1]
Prof. Duić has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions for his scientific work:
2008 – from University of Zagreb for improvement of international relations achieved under an international scientific project[27]
2017 – National Science Award for significant scientific achievement in 2016 in the field of technical sciences, for scientific research aimed at sustainable energy development[28]
2018 – Great Medal from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture - for an exceptional contribution to the improvement of work, development and promotion of the Faculty[29]
2021 – Medal Atanasije Stojković from Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia[30]