Short bio

Hrvoje Lukačić is an engineering geologist and mining/geotechnical engineer with an interest in the application of modern technology (high-resolution 3D point cloud) to analyze and solve complex engineering-geological problems regarding rockfalls.
After finishing the Master’s program “Mining engineering” (Master’s Thesis: Development of computer software for determining uniaxial compression strength and deformability of materials during loading and unloading cycles) at the Faculty of mining, geology, and petroleum engineering, University of Zagreb (Croatia), he started his second Master’s program “Engineering geology” (Master’s Thesis: Manual and semi-automatic identification of geometrical properties of rock joints from 3D point cloud).
During his Master’s studies, he worked as an intern at the Institute of Rock Mechanics and Tunneling (Graz University of Technology) where he gained skills in digital rock face mapping, point cloud processing of digitalized tunnel faces, and modeling in order to retrieve the block size distribution of a blocky rock mass.
He is employed as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Petroleum engineering at the Research group for engineering geology.

SKILLS
• Engineering geological mapping
• Remote sensing (photogrammetry and LiDAR)
• Point cloud processing
• Spatial analysis – landslide susceptibility assessment
• Rock Fall investigation
• Numerical modeling
• Rock and soil laboratory testing

E-mail adresa: hrvoje.lukacic@rgn.hr