Ivan Perkov

Ivan Perkov was born in Split in 1989. He completed his undergraduate studies in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split in 2010 with a thesis on youth politics in Split and obtained his Master's degree in Sociology in 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He was also enrolled in the postgraduate course in Organisation and Management at the Faculty of Economics and Bussines in Zagreb, where he passed all the required exams.From 2017 to 2021, he attended the Postgraduate Doctoral Programme in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 2021, he defended his dissertation on "Social aspects of the waste management system in Zagreb". He won a scholarship  for excellence in doctoral studies in 2018/2019. He is a member of the Commission for Scientific Undertakings and the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Croatian Studies and the Council for Social Sciences and Humanities and the Senate of the University of Zagreb.For more than a decade he has been continuously active in academic journalism and in the editorial board of the Croatian university newspaper Universitas, where he has published a number of issues, analyses and interviews with prominent representatives of the academic community. He was involved in the creation of the first Croatian student portal studentski.hr. From 2014 to 2017 he was employed at the Office of Studies and Quality Management at the University of Zagreb, and since 2017 he has been working at the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies as a research assistant in the field of sociology. His scientific and professional fields of interest are urban sociology, sociology of risk and social ecology. He collaborates on a number of courses in the Department of Sociology, the most important of which is the course Risk Society, initiated in collaboration with the eminent Dutch professor Joost van Loon.He is a member of the Croatian Bioethical Society and the American Sociological Society.He is married and father of two children