Robert Matijašić

Robert Matijašić was born in Pula in 1957. He obtained a degree in archaeology and English language and literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb in 1979. He worked at the Archaeological Museum of Istria in Pula as a curator in the Department of Ancient Archaeology (1979–1996). From 1991 to 1994, he was the Director of the Museum. He completed his postgraduate studies in 1985 and received his doctorate in 1994 from the University of Zagreb. From 1991, he was an external associate lecturer at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka (today the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), and since 1996 he has worked at the present-day Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the „Juraj Dobrila“ University of Pula, where he is a full professor of ancient history and classical archaeology. He served as Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty, as well as Vice-Rector and Rector of the University. He has participated in more than 120 conferences, congresses, and scientific meetings in Croatia and abroad. He has published nine books, more than 130 scholarly papers in journals and edited volumes in Croatia and abroad, as well as around one hundred professional and review articles. He has edited seven books and translated several more. He is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, and in 2023 he was awarded the „Don Frane Bulić“ Lifetime Achievement Award by the Croatian Archaeological Society. He is a full member of HAZU.