Ivica Puljak

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Marijana Puljak
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(m. 1995)​
Ivica Puljak
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Puljak in 2021
Mayor of Split
Assumed office
15 July 2022
Children3
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Politician
  • physicist
  • professor
Awards Order of Danica with the face of Ruđer Bošković [1]
Website ivicapuljak.com

Ivica Puljak (born 27 August 1969) is a Croatian politician, particle physicist and professor at University of Split's FESB division. He is currently serving as mayor of Split since 2022 and is the president of the Centre political party.

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Life

Early life and education

Puljak was born in 1969 in Split, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia. His parents are from the Dalmatian Hinterland with his father, Zdravko, being from Zagvozd and mother, Jaka, from Drniš. [2] Growing up in Split and attending primary and high school in his hometown, he dreamed of becoming a footballer for the local club, Hajduk. [3]

Personal life

Puljak is married to Marijana, the founder of Pametno and a member of Croatian Parliament. They have 2 daughters and one son together. [2]

Scientific career

He has been working for his PhD thesis at Laboratory Leprince Ringuet (LLR) at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, and got his PhD on search for Higgs boson from University Paris VI in 2000 for which he was awarded the best CMS thesis award in 2001. He is a member of CMS collaboration since 1994 and MAGIC collaboration since 2009. He was a co-coordinator of more than a hundred scientists from all over the world working on the most sensitive and precise of all physical processes through which the Higgs boson was discovered and measured. His research interests are the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector, development and implementation of algorithms for the electron reconstruction of the CMS detector, physics of the Higgs boson and astroparticle physics. He was awarded the Annual Award for Science in 2013. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Political career

Puljak ran for and won the 2021 Split mayoral elections. [7] After about one year, a special election was summoned due to the dissolution of the city council, where Puljak had lost his majority. Adding to the commotion, his deputy mayor, Bojan Ivošević, was charged with threatening a journalist. [8] On April 8, Mayor Puljak and both his deputies resigned. [9] Ivica Puljak won the special election becoming the first mayor of Split to win more than one election and his party Centre won 15 seats out of 31 in the city council. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "NN 84/2013 (3.7.2013.), Odluka o odlikovanju Redom Danice hrvatske s likom Ruđera Boškovića prof. dr. sc. Ivice (Zdravko) Puljaka" (in Croatian). 7 July 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Težak je bio put od ulice do 'Božje čestice': Ivica Puljak prisjeća se života bez politike. Odrastao je u 'Siromašnoj', igrao za juniore Hajduka, svirao gitaru..." (in Croatian). 24 March 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Ivica Puljak biografija" (in Croatian). 8 May 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "NAJVAŽNIJE ZNANSTVENO OTKRIĆE U POVIJESTI VIDEO Pronašli smo Božju česticu: Na objavi otkrića Peter Higgs nije mogao zaustaviti suze" (in Croatian). 4 July 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "Ivica Puljak, Assistant Professor in the Technical University of Split in Croatia receives the award for the best CMS thesis 2001".
  6. ↑ "Prof. Ivica Puljak Winner of the Annual Award For Science in the Field of Natural Sciences (translation)".
  7. ↑ "Splitsko-dalmatinska županija - Split - Gradonačelnik / Općinski načelnik - Stanje od 17.05.2021 u 13:00" (in Croatian). State Election Committee of Croatia. 17 May 2021. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Maretić Žonja, Petra; Filipović, Juraj (30 March 2022). "Doznajemo! Puljak i Ivošević daju ostavke, Split ide na nove izbore!" [We find out! Puljak and Ivošević resign, Split goes to new elections!]. Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Gradonačelnik Puljak i zamjenik Ivošević podnijeli ostavke, a neočekivano im se pridružio i Kuzmanić" [Mayor Puljak and Deputy Ivošević resigned, and Kuzmanić unexpectedly joined them]. Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 8 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  10. ↑ "Ivica Puljak nakon uvjerljive pobjede: "Bit ću gradonačelnik svih građana Splita. Učinit ćemo da Split bude centar regije"" [Ivica Puljak after a convincing victory: "I will be the mayor of all the citizens of Split. We will make Split the center of the region"]. Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). 10 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
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