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Julija Lozzi Barković is a full-time professor with a permanent title at the Department of Art History, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka.

The compulsory courses she teaches are Art of the Modern Age, History of Contemporary Architecture, Avant-Gardes and Methods of Research and Interpretation of Architecture and Urbanism, she teaches also several elective courses related to the architectural and industrial heritage of Rijeka and the region in the 19th and 20th centuries.

J. Lozzi Barković was born on February 28, 1960 in Rijeka. She finished the Mirko Lenac High School in Rijeka in 1978., ant after that graduated at the Fine Arts Department of the Faculty of Pedagogy (since 1998 the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the University of Rijeka in 1983. At the same time, she studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka, completing her third year of studies. After graduating, Lozzi Barković enrolled in postgraduate scientific studies at the Department of History of Art, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, which she completed in 1986, and defended her master’s thesis on Secession in the architecture of Rijeka in 1991. She enrolled in postgraduate doctoral studies at the Department of History of Art, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 1994., where she defended her doctoral dissertation in 2000, Architecture of the Rijeka region in the first half of the 20th century.

Since 1989, J. Lozzi Barković has been working as an assistant at the Fine Arts Department of the Faculty of Education at the University of Rijeka, where she was employed as a lecturer the same year. From 1997 to 2002, she was a senior lecturer, and in that time, from 2001 to 2003, she participated in the conception and establishment of the Art History Study at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. After that, until 2007, she was employed as a scientific and teaching assistant at the Department of Art History, the Faculty of Humanities and Social, University of Rijeka. During that period, she also participated in the preparation of the realization of the Art History Study program in accordance with the study reform and the Bologna process, which was approved by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Croatia in 2006. From 2007 to 2013, she was employed in a scientific-teaching position and as an associate professor at the same department. During that period, she was also an external associate at the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of Rijeka, and an external associate at the Postgraduate Doctoral (previously scientific) study of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. But also, at the Postgraduate Doctoral Study Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. From 2013 to 2018 she was employed in a position of full professor (she was re-elected in 2018), and from 2021 to the present days she is a full professor in a permanent position. J. Lozzi Barković is an external associate at the Postgraduate Doctoral Studies in Humanities at the University of Zadar and at the Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Specialist Studies in Health Tourism at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Rijeka.

J. Lozzi Barković works as a member of the board of directors in various national and international professional associations, working groups and committees: Réseau Art Nouveau Network, Docomomo Friuli Venezia Giulia, Docomomo international, Ticcih, Society of Art Historians of Rijeka, Society of Art Historians of Croatia, Pro-torpedo Rijeka, participating in their activities such as gatherings and conferences where he gives presentations and publishes papers in the proceedings of those gatherings. She is the holder and participant of a number of scientific and professional projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Science, the University of Rijeka and European funds. It is continuously involved in the scientific and artistic life of the city of Rijeka and the region, especially in terms of researching architecture and urbanism of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. She initiated the establishment of a working group for the membership of Rijeka in 2009 in the international Réseau Art nouveau Network, which gathers cities with a rich art nouveau heritage, in whose activities she has continuously participated since then. She is the founder of the Center for Industrial Heritage of the University of Rijeka, whose head she has been since its establishment in 2013.

She uses English and Italian actively, and Russian passively.

Julija Lozzi Barković’s area of ​​scientific interest includes research into the history of urbanism and architecture of the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries in Rijeka and the region. In recent years, he has focused on comparative research of the interwar architecture of Rijeka and Sušak in an international context and on industrial architectural heritage. She has published 5 books (a3): 4 scientific (3 author’s and one editorial book) and 1 professional book. She is the winner of the significant national professional award “R. Ivančević” for his contribution in the field of art history research and the City of Rijeka Award for achievements in the research of the interwar architecture of the city of Rijeka and Sušak. In total, she was the holder of 2 scientific research projects, she participated in 4 scientific research projects (2 international), in 5 scientific and professional projects of the Center for Industrial Heritage of the University of Rijeka.