Neven Tomičić 

Welcome

   My name is Neven Tomičić (doc. dr. sc.), currently working as an assistant professor (Croatian: Docent) at the Faculty of Science (Department of Physics; Croatian: Fizički Odsjek, Prirodoslovno-Matematički Fakultet) at the University of Zagreb. I am a lecturer for the courses "Galaxies" and "Modern astrophysical techniques".

   My scientific interest is probing the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies, such as chemical abundances of gas in nearby galaxies, dust & attenuation effects on star-formation prescriptions, properties of the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) and its effects on star-formation across gas-stripped galaxies. Objects of my work are nearby galaxies at various spatial resolutions, from nearby Andromeda and Triangulum galaxy (resolutions of 1-10 pc), tidally interacting and ram-pressure affected galaxy NGC 2276 (~0.5 kpc resolutions), to the GASP sample of 114 galaxies in groups and clusters (kpc scale resolutions).  I am primarily using the optical integral field unit (IFU) spectra and imaging (Hubble space telescope), and combine them with multi-wavelength images, such as the infra-red imaging (WISE, MIPS, Herschel, ...), ultraviolet images (GALEX, UVIT, ...) and sub-mm and radio (IRAM, ALMA, LOFAR, ...). 

My past employment:

• Second post-doc (2022-2023): I worked at the University of Florence, Italy (Department of Physics and Astronomy),  and at the Observatory of Arcetri in Florence, INAF (Italy), as a member of the Florence Extragalactic group.

• First post-doc (2019-2022): researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of Padova (INAF-OAPD). Membe of the GASP collaboration (PI. B. M. Poggianti) on the ISM properties in the gas-stripped galaxies in the galaxy clusters.  

• PhD studies (2015-2019): junior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg (Germany) under the supervision of Eva Schinnerer, Kathryn Kreckel and I-Ting Ho. My PhD studies were focused on probing the ISM, dust, and star-formation in the Andromeda galaxy and interacting galaxy NGC 2276. 

• Master degree in Physics (2010-2015): at the University of Zagreb (Croatia), under the master thesis advisor prof. Vernesa Smolčić.  The topic of my master thesis was Monte-Carlo simulations of galaxy position of the proto-clusters of galaxies in COSMOS survey.