Contact:
Damir Demonja
+385 1 487 7477
damir.demonja@irmo.hr
Bibliography:
Croatian scientific bibliography
Job title: Scientific advisor with tenure
Damir Demonja was born in 1966 in Zagreb, where he received his education. In 1993, he graduated in Philosophy and Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he earned his master’s degree in 1996 and his PhD in 2001. From 1993 to 2001, he worked at the Institute of Art History (IPU) in Zagreb, where, among other responsibilities, he led his own incentive project for the best and most promising early-career researchers. In 2003, he joined the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Croatia as Senior Expert Adviser for International Bilateral and Regional Cooperation, and subsequently as Senior Expert Adviser for Selective Forms of Tourism and Development Projects, with an emphasis on cultural and rural tourism and development projects in these fields. Since 2006, he has been employed at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) in Zagreb, in the Department for Sustainable Development, as a Scientific advisor with tenure. His research interests include tourism and its various forms, particularly cultural and rural tourism, sustainable development, cultural and historical heritage in the function of tourism, and anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to art history and culture. He is the author of more than 220 scientific and professional papers, 7 scientific books and 1 edited book. As part of his work at the Institute, he has presented independently and as a co-author at international and national conferences, workshops and seminars, and regularly publishes in international and Croatian scientific and professional journals. He is a member of scientific and organizing committees/councils of international scientific conferences, a scientific reviewer for international interdisciplinary journals, a member of scientific and editorial boards of Croatian journals, the head and coordinator of several international collaborations with faculties and institutes, and the leader of international market-oriented projects. Since March 2024, he has been a member of the Committee for the Interdisciplinary Scientific Area – Different Scientific Areas and Fields, of the National Council for Higher Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, and since September 2019 he has been a member of the Scientific Council for Tourism and Space of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU), currently serving his second term.