Mario Štorga is a Full Professor with Tenure at the Chair of Design and Product Development of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (UNIZG FSB) (www.fsb.unizg.hr). He enrolled in the study of mechanical engineering at UNIZAG FSB in Zagreb in 1992 and graduated in 1997 with a specialization in engineering design. After graduation, he was offered a position at the Chair of Design and Product Development at UNIZAG FSB as a PhD researcher on the project titled "Model of Intelligent CAD System," funded and approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia. In 1997, he enrolled in the postgraduate study in the field of engineering design theory.
In February 2002, he acquired the M.Sc. Degree after completing a master's thesis titled "Web Services Based System for the Product Data Exchange and Management." In September 2005, he acquired the Ph.D. Degree after completing a Ph.D. thesis titled "The Design Ontology - Contribution to the Design Knowledge Exchange and Management." From November 2016, he has been the Head of the Chair of Design and Product Development (with a break in the academic year 2019/20 due to a sabbatical).
In the academic year 2003/2004, through the foundation of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, he spent six months as a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. In the summer of 2006, he was a visiting researcher at Ecole Centrale de Paris, France. In autumn 2007, through the foundation of the National Foundation for Science, Higher Education, and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia, Mario Štorga spent six months as a visiting researcher at the University of Bath, UK. In the summer of 2012, he was a visiting researcher at Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises, Centre for Complex Socio-technological Systems, USA. In 2013/14, he was a visiting researcher at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. In 2014, he was a visiting researcher at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. In 2014/15, he was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, at the University of Bath. In the summer of 2018, he was a visiting researcher at Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Systems and Enterprises. Since October 2015, he has been continuously a Visiting Professor at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.
He was the leading researcher of the TRaceability of ENgineering INformation – TRENIN project funded by the EU EUREKA programme from 2009-2011 (www.trenin.org). He was the main collaborator from Croatia in the project on the analysis of the structure and behavior of complex information networks in a 3D immersive virtual reality environment (www.organicviz.org), which is supported by VisionAir - VISION Advanced Infrastructure for Research (www.infra-visionair.eu) in 2012. He was the leading researcher of the Visually Augmented Analysis of Complex Information Structures Evolving in Sociotechnical Systems – VISINEV project funded by the EU EUREKA programme from 2013-2015 (www.visinev.org). He was a leading researcher of the Models and Methods of Innovation Management in Complex Engineering Systems Development – MInMED project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, 2014-2018 (www.minmed.org). He was a leading researcher of the Team Adaptability for Innovation-Oriented Product Development – TAIDE project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, 2018-2022 (www.taide.org).
Since 2004, he has served on the scientific advisory boards for DESIGN (www.designconference.org, Croatia), ICED (Europe, USA, Australia), ASME (USA), and ICoRD (India) engineering design conference series. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Design - JoED (Taylor and Francis), and he has been a reviewer for the International Journal of Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications - CERA (SAGE Publications), Distributed and Parallel Databases (Springer), Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing – AIEDAM (Cambridge University Press, USA), and Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME).
From 2007-2011, he was responsible for the management of the Centre for Product Development, which is collaborating on R&D projects with more than 20 companies from Croatia and Slovenia.
He is a member of the Design Society (www.designsociety.org). From 2011-2021, he was a member of the Advisory Board, and in 2021 he has been elected to the Board of the Management.
Mario has published over 100 scientific papers (journals and conferences) and more than 50 industrial reports. He was invited as a speaker for numerous academic and industrial workshops and seminars in Croatia and abroad.
