Prof. Zdravko Spiric received his Ph.D in Technical Sciences, scientific field Chemical Engineering from University of Zagreb, Croatia. He received Certificate from Republic of Croatia - Ministry of energy, industry, mining and services: Licensed - certified manager for Chemical Engineering and Technological projects. Currently he is the scientific director of OIKON - Ltd. Institute for Applied Ecology, Zagreb, and Professor at Medical faculty Rijeka, Croatia. Since 1980. he is with INA at the R&D on the research of chemical processes in the oil and gas industry. He has experience in the petroleum industry and in the petrochemical research and process development, specializing in environmental technology (environmental protection- laboratory and field extensive industrial consulting practice). From 1988. he was responsible for the laboratory activities as well as for the environmental issues and was involved in the significant Croatian energetic and ecological Project Podravina. From 1995., and before joining Oikon d.o.o. – Institute for Applied Ecology 2004. he was Environmental protection Manager for the INA-Naftaplin. On the basis of the Article 92. Paragraph 2 Law on Scientific Activity and Higher Education (Official Gazette 123/03., 198/03., 105/04., 174/04. And 46/07.), and Article 45. Paragraph 1 Statute of the School of Medicine in Rijeka, University of Rijeka (Class: 003-05 / 05-01/04 dated 22 February 2005.), Faculty Council at its session held on 14 October 2009 adopted the Decision: Dr. sc. Zdravko Špirić, senior research associate, is elected in the academic title of Assistant professor, scientific and technical areas of science, the scientific field of chemical engineering, scientific branch of mechanical, thermal and separation processes, the Department of Environmental Medicine, The Medicine faculty in Rijeka, University of Rijeka. Lecturer on the Environmental and Health Safety at the Medical Faculty in Rijeka www.medri.hr and Environmental protection and sustainable development at VERN' - University of Applied Sciences in Zagreb www.vern.hr He's Senior Research Associate in technical sciences, field chemical engineering - Academic Council of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology - University of Zagreb (2011) He is author and co-author of more than 300 technical and scientific papers and studies published in many of local and world scientific journals and publications, as well as of several innovations, studies, handbooks for professional training, and instructions for work in a secure way. His scope of work and research activities comprises the areas of health&environmental protection and sustainable development. Currently, as Croatian scientist in charge, involved in the: EU FP6 integrated project PHIME – – Public health impact of long-term, low-level mixed element exposure in susceptible population strata CT-2006- (2006-2011); EU FP7-TPT-2008-RTD-1– REACT Supporting Research on Climate-friendly Transport (2009-2011); EU P7-ENV-2010 .4-1– CSA– OBSERVE – Coordination and support action: Strengthening and development of Earth Observation activities for the environment in the Balkan area (2010-2012); Eureka E! 3266 EUROENVIRON WEBAIR »Web-based Air Quality Assessment and Management«; UN ECE ICP Vegetation – Heavy Metals in European Mosses, NATO Advanced Research Workshop – 2009 NATO workshop on Warfare Ecology: Synthesis, Priorities and Policy Implications for Peace and Security (ref. no. 983502) ; EUREKA E!5460 WEBAIR-2 http://www.eurekanetwork.org/project/-/id/5460; EU CIP - ICT-PSP-2011-5 project eEnviPer, A single multi-purpose SOA platform that delivers environmental permissions services through the cloud of  e-Government services and applications http://www.eenviper.eu/; EU FP7-SME-2013 - Research for SMEs – SOIMON - Grant ag. no.: 605065 - New Fast and Reliable Technology for  Soil Inspection inContaminated Sites with Machinery Condition Monitoring - Zdravko Spiric - co-ordinator - www.soimon.eu; EU FP7-SME-AG -2013 - Research for SMEs - Grant agreement no.: 60607 - POLLINS - Automated Pollution Inspection Scanning System for Soil using a robotic vehicle http://www.pollins.eu/; FP7-ENV-2013 – Two-stage - Grant agreement no: 603946 - HEALS - Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys http://www.heals-eu.eu/;

He has also coordinated scientific and applied research projects such as: The study of mercury in environmental, technological and geological systems in Croatia; Mercury Monitoring System during the production, processing and transportation of natural gas; Proposal of solutions for the processing of waste containing mercury The European Commission - Registered in the EU Commission evaluator database FP5/FP6/FP7 and H2020 – number: EX2002B022188 - active as an expert/evaluator since 2002 - https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/ EU – Community Research RTD Framework Programme - the expert team for Evaluation of project proposals in the framework of the Programme «Energy, environment and sustainable development», Part B: Energy, Hydrocarbons, Brussels, January 2002. The EU–Community Research RTD FP6/7 expert team member for Evaluation of project proposals Marie Curie Mobility-1 and ENVIRONMET in the 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008. 2009. 2010. and 2011. Expert in SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call, operated by INTAS, 2007. Expert EUFP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2007-2: Euro Research Awards: The Descartes Prize 07. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) - Expert Database ID 70462 www.efsa.europa.eu European Science Foundation Pool of Reviewers http://www.esf.org/ FNRS - Brussels, Belgium – Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, 2010 - Reviewer ID 405558; http://applications.frs-fnrs.be EU EACEA expert - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency – Tempus, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Eurydice, KA1 - Policy Cooperation and Innovation & Bilateral Cooperation with Industrialised Countries – since 2010 and EUREKA Eurostars since 2011. Author (sole and co-author) of more than 250 professional/technical and 30 scientific papers published in the professional magazines and scientific publications, and presented at the local and international congresses/meetings held in Albuquerque, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Beijing, Boston, Dubrovnik, Hamburg, Houston, London, Miami, Minamata, Paris, Pittsburgh, Porto Rico, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Strasbourg, Washington, Zagreb, ... as well as seven innovations, few studies, handbooks for professional training, and instructions for work in a secure way.