Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Sc. Ferdo Bašić was born on 1 January 1945 in Broćanac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed secondary agricultural school in Ilok, Croatia, in 1963.

From 1964 to 1965 he worked as an agricultural technician at the Agricultural Cooperative Selenča in Vojvodina. He graduated in agronomy (field crops) in 1970 from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. After graduation, he worked as an assistant at the Department of Soil Science at the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb and later at the Institute of Soil Science and Soil Technology – Zagreb.

He completed his postgraduate studies in Soil Science in 1974 at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb. From 1973 to 1984 he worked at the Higher Agricultural College in Križevci. He earned his PhD in 1984 at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sarajevo. From 1984 until his retirement in 2010 he was a member of the academic staff at the Faculty of Agriculture (later Faculty of Agronomy), University of Zagreb.

In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor and Research Associate. In 1990 he was promoted to Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate. In 1996 he was elected Full Professor, and in 2000 he was appointed to a permanent professorship.

He retired in 2010. In 2011, by decision of the Senate of the University of Zagreb, upon proposal of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Agriculture, he was elected to the honorary title of Professor Emeritus.

In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his overall scientific contribution in the field of biotechnical sciences.

Scientific Contribution

He is the author or co-author of 731 scientific and professional publications of various categories:

• Authored books (24),
• Edited books (6),
• Book chapters (38),
• Textbooks and teaching materials (14),
• Original and review scientific papers in CC journals (23),
• Scientific papers in equally ranked journals (45),
• Other journal publications (15),
• Plenary lectures (4),
• Published invited lectures (2),
• Peer-reviewed papers in international conference proceedings (75),
• Peer-reviewed papers in national conference proceedings (47),
• Non-reviewed conference papers (10),
• Abstracts in conference proceedings (54),
• Unpublished scientific contributions (30),
• Books in manuscript (5),
• Manuscripts from the General Soil Map Project 1:50,000 (13),
• Studies from international cooperation projects (20),
• Studies within Croatia (64),
• Soil amelioration studies (13),
• Professional expert reports (15),
• Soil damage and reclamation projects related to oil/gas drilling sites (155),
• Soil contamination studies in refinery and oil production areas (4),
• Environmental impact studies of oil exploitation (7),
• Reclamation of permanently abandoned oil/gas wells (2),
• Waste injection feasibility studies in abandoned wells (5),
• Impact of oil/gas pipeline ruptures on soil (9),
• Studies on consequences of oil spills on soil (4),
• Long-term soil monitoring (15),
• Evaluation of higher education quality systems (13).

In the preparation of these works he collaborated with 269 Croatian co-authors and 72 international scientists from Europe, Africa and the USA.

For four decades Prof. Bašić dedicated his scientific, teaching and professional work to soil science, sustainable soil management and soil protection as an exceptional multifunctional natural resource.

Membership

He is a member of several national scientific and professional associations:

• Croatian Society of Soil Science (founder and first president),
• Croatian Ecological Society,
• Croatian Water and Marine Protection Society.

International memberships include:

• International Union of Soil Science,
• International Soil Tillage Research Organisation (ISTRO),
• European Society of Soil Conservation (ESSC).

Awards

For his scientific work he received the Annual State Award for Science in the field of biotechnical sciences (2002) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2011).

In June 2006, the University of Gödöllő (Hungary) appointed him Honorary Advisor upon proposal of the Faculty of Agriculture and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences.