red. prof. dr. sc. Vladan Desnica

Born on December 29, 1971 in Zagreb, he is a Croatian citizen. He attended elementary and high school partly in Zagreb, and partially, for 3 years, in Albany, New York and Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated in 1990 from the Center for Cultural Education, in Zagreb, with his graduation thesis: "Physical Methods in the Research of Works of Art". With the intention of devoting himself to the conservation and restoration of works of art as a scientist, in 1991 he enrolled in the study of physics at the University of Vienna. In 2001, he obtained a master's degree with a master's thesis: "Characterization of traditional painting pigments by spectroscopic methods". In 2001, he was employed as a doctoral assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, at the Institute for Art and Technology in Art. In addition to teaching duties as an assistant, he participated in restoration and conservation projects for the restoration of a number of art masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Albertina in Vienna. At the same time, at the doctoral study of the University of Vienna from 2001 to 2005, he studied the application of technology and scientific knowledge in conservation-restoration. He received his PhD with the thesis: "Development, construction and application of a portable device for fluorescence analysis of works of art". At the beginning of 2006, at the National Center for Scientific Research in Athens, Greece, he specialized in the application of nuclear analytical methods in the research of artistic and cultural heritage. At the same time, he received a one-year postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation of the Republic of Croatia and was employed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, where he worked on the development of instruments for the analysis of works of art during conservation and restoration procedures. Over the years, she has been continuously improving herself by participating in a number of international specialized workshops and summer schools on the topic of the application of technological and scientific methods in cultural heritage research. At the beginning of 2007, he was employed as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art (OKIRU), in the segment of subjects in fine art technology and natural sciences. In 2012, he was promoted to the arts-teaching title of associate professor, in 2019 to the title of full professor, and from 2025 he received a permanent title. He is the author of numerous professional and scientific articles in the field of artistic research and participates as a leader and associate in a number of scientific and technological projects in the mentioned field. He is a member of the Croatian Conservation Society.

She is engaged in the development and use of instrumental methods for the research of cultural heritage objects and the optimization of scientific methodology in the protection of cultural property. Mentoring and co-mentoring of several graduate theses

Courses of scientific and natural science character, focused on the research of materials and techniques of artists and related to works in conservation and restoration practice

– Mihalić, Iva Božičević; Fazinić, Stjepko; Barac, Marko; Karydas, Andreas Germanos; Migliori, Alessandro; Doračić, Damir; Desnica, Vladan; Mudronja, Domagoj; Krstić, Dragica. Multivariate analysis of PIXE + XRF and PIXE spectral images. Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry, 36, 3; 654-667 doi:10.1039/d0ja00529k – Mudronja, Domagoj; Vanmeert, Frederik; Fazinić, Stjepko; Janssens, Koen; Tibljaš, Darko; Desnica, Vladan. Protection of Stone Monuments Using a Brushing Treatment with Ammonium Oxalate. Coatings, 11, 4; 379, 10 doi:10.3390/coatings11040379 – Kotlar, Marta; Matijaković Mlinarić, Nives; Desnica, Vladan; Marušić, Katarina. Studying a 2 millennia old bronze kettle using easily accessible characterization techniques. Heritage Science, 9, 10, 13 doi:10.1186/s40494-021-00484-6 – Dujmušić, Dorela; Desnica, Vladan; Šatović, Domagoj; Fazinić, Stjepko. IBA and complementary spectroscopic methods for identification of Zagreb mummy's pigments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 465, 53-58 doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2019.11.020 2019. – Šatović, Domagoj; Desnica, Vladan; Fazinić, Stjepko; Mičetić, Maja. Studies of bronze corrosion phenomena by EBS and complementary techniques. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 461, 154-158 doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2019.09.040 2018. – Duh, Jelena; Krstić, Dragica; Desnica, Vladan; Fazinić, Stjepko. Non-destructive study of iron gall inks in manuscripts. Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 417, 96-99 doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2017.08.033 – Marušić, Katarina; Pucić, Irina; Desnica, Vladan. Ornaments in radiation treatment of cultural heritage: Color and UV-vis spectral changes in irradiated nacres. Radiation physics and chemistry, 124, 62-67 doi:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.11.028 2013. – Šatović, Domagoj; Desnica, Vladan; Fazinić, Stjepko. Use of portable X-ray fluorescence instrument for bulk alloy analysis on low corroded indoor bronzes. Spectrochimica acta. Part B, Atomic spectroscopy, 89, 7-13 doi:10.1016/j.sab.2013.08.007 – Mudronja, Domagoj; Jakšić, Milko; Fazinić, Stjepko; Božičević, Iva; Desnica, Vladan; Woodhead, Jon; Stos-Gale, Zofia. Croatian Appoxiomenos alloy composition and lead provenance study. Journal of archaeological science, 37, 7; 1396-1402 doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.043 –Desnica, Vladan; Škarić, Ksenija; Jembrih- Simbuerger, Dubravka; Fazinić, Stjepko; Jakšić, Milko; Mudronja, Domagoj; Pavličić, M.; Peranić, I.; Schreiner, Manfred. Portable XRF as a valuable device for preliminary in situ pigment investigation of wooden inventory in the Trski Vrh Church in Croatia. Applied physics. A, Materials science & processing, 92, 1; 19-23 doi:10.1007/s00339-008-4470-x