Radenka Maric

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Radenka Maric
Interim President of the University of Connecticut
Assumed office
February 1, 2022
Preceded byAndrew Agwunobi
Personal details
BornFormer Yugoslavia
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade (BS)
Kyoto University (MS, PhD)
OccupationEngineer, professor, academic administrator

Radenka Maric is an American professor of engineering who has served as interim president of the University of Connecticut since February 1, 2022. Formerly UConn's vice president for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship, Maric succeeded former interim president Andrew Agwunobi, who resigned to take an executive-level role with Humana.[1][2][3]

Biography[]

Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, Maric earned her BS from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and her MS and PhD in materials science and energy from Kyoto University in Japan. After spending 12 years in Japan, she moved to the United States in 2001 to work at a clean-energy startup in Atlanta. Three years later, she began leading the Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation at the National Research Council Canada. She joined UConn in 2010 as a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. In 2016–2017, she was a visiting Fulbright chair professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy.[4][5]

A Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Maric holds the faculty appointment of Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Professor of Sustainable Energy in UConn's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering.[2] Over the course of her career, she has received more than $40 million in research funding, published more than 300 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and registered six patents. She became vice president for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in July 2017. In this role, she oversees the $375 million research enterprise at UConn and UConn Health, including the Technology Incubation Program and the Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park.[5][6]

Maric was named a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019. She is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.[4] She is lead author of the book Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Fundamental Principles to Complete Systems (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020).[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Big Question with Radenka Maric: On the role of scientists in society". Scientific Inquirer. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b McBride, Jessica (2019-05-17). "Dr. Radenka Maric, VP for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship". University of Connecticut. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Watson, Adria (2022-01-14). "Interim President Andrew Agwunobi to leave UConn". The Connecticut Mirror. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b McBride, Jessica (2019-11-26). "UConn Researcher Radenka Maric Named AAAS Fellow". UConn Today. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b Ormseth, Matthew (2017-10-29). "Researcher, Painter, Pianist, Seamstress: The Many Shades of Radenka Maric". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Maric leads UConn's research, innovation and entrepreneurship". Hartford Business Journal. 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2022-01-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Maric, Radenka; Mirshekari, Gholamreza (2020). Solid oxide fuel cells: from fundamental principles to complete systems. ISBN 978-0-429-52784-5. OCLC 1228350036.
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