Lecturers

Assistant Professor

Vjeran Bušelić was born on December 13, 1957, in Zagreb. In 1981, he graduated in Mathematics from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, where he earned the title of Master of Mathematics and Computer Science.

In his nearly thirty-year career in business informatics, he has progressed through all levels—from programmer and systems engineer to a pioneer of GIS in Croatia, technical specialist, and manager at Microsoft Croatia.

Since 2009, he has worked and/or lectured at several Zagreb-based universities, including Algebra, TVZ, VERN, and VSITE, and after obtaining his doctoral degree, he has been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb.

Throughout his career, he completed numerous IT education programs, including those at IBM (1986–1995), ESRI (1989–1991), and Microsoft (1997–2009), as well as various business development programs during his time at Microsoft (1997–2009). He has organized and led dozens of technical and business conferences and delivered hundreds of public lectures. He was one of the founders and the first editor-in-chief of the Microsoft Windays conference (2001–2003). He has also given invited lectures on the introduction of the first electronic session of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (December 27, 2001) in the parliaments of North Macedonia (2002) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007).

While working in academia, he furthered his education as a career counselor, a role he performed alongside his teaching duties at Algebra and TVZ. He is the author and instructor of several courses at universities such as Algebra, TVZ, VERN, and VSITE, including the course “Information Literacy and Critical Thinking” from 2016, which, since 2023, also involves learning and using Generative Artificial Intelligence.

Thanks to his work in career counseling and employability for young people, in 2018, he earned his PhD with high honors (Magna Cum Laude) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with the thesis “Scientific Discourse on Information Literacy and the Employability of Graduates”.

He has actively participated in around ten domestic and international professional and scientific projects and has published around forty professional and scientific papers at domestic and international conferences. He is fluent in English and also speaks Russian.

For his work, he has received several domestic and international awards: Microsoft EMEA President Award (1999), Microsoft Best Practices Worldwide Award (2001), Informatics Plaque from the Croatian Informatics Association (2009), and Best Student Career Supporter, Oxford Summit of Leaders (2014).