Born on 24 January 1973 in Našice, Croatia. From September 1979 till June 1987 attended primary school in Našice and from September 1987 till May 1991 attended secondary school in Našice. As a secondary school student participated in two International Physics Olympiads in Groningen, Netherlands in 1990 and in La Habana, Cuba in 1991. Received his B. Sc. in physics from University of Zagreb in July 1996, thesis: “Inclusive decays of heavy quarks”. After graduate studies in theoretical physics received his Ph. D. in theoretical physics from University of Zagreb in July 2002 with a thesis: “Hierarchy of lifetimes of hadrons containing heavy quarks”.
From August 1997 to July 2002 worked as a research assistant and from July 2002 to May 2005 as a postdoctoral research assistant at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Ruđer Bošković Institute. On May 2005 he was permanently employed at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Ruđer Bošković Institute. At that institution he held the position of research associate from May 2005 till March 2010 and from March 2010 he holds the position of the senior research associate. From March 2005 – August 2006 he stayed at Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is participating at ZSEM graduate study.
Papers
Scientific and review papers
- Perković, Dalibor; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Barotropic fluid compatible parametrizations of dark energy. // The European Physical Journal C, 80 (2020), 7; 629, 12 doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8199-9 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Zlatić, Vinko; Barjašić, Irena; Kadović, Andrea; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Gabrielli, Andrej
Bi-stability of SUDR+K model of epidemics and test kits applied to COVID-19. // Nonlinear dynamics, 101 (2020), 1635-1642 doi:10.1007/s11071-020-05888-w (članak, znanstveni)
- Perković, Dalibor; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Dark sector unifications: Dark matter-phantom energy, dark matter – constant w dark energy, dark matter-dark energy-dark matter. // Physics letters. B, 797 (2019), 134806, 7 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134806 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Perković, Dalibor; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Transient dark energy, cosmological constant boundary crossing and dark energy w(z) data fits. // International Journal of Modern Physics D, 28 (2019), 03; 1950045, 19 doi:10.1142/S0218271819500457 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Lančić, Alen; Šmuc, Tomislav; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Šikić, Mile
Identification of Patient Zero in Static and Temporal Networks : Robustness and Limitations. // Physical Review Letters, 114 (2015), 248701-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.248701 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Popović, Marko; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Sluban, Borut; Kralj Novak, Petra; Grčar, Miha; Mozetič, Igor; Puliga, Michelangelo; Zlatić, Vinko
Extraction of temporal networks from term co- occurrences in online textual sources. // PLoS One, 9 (2014), 12; e99515, 29 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099515 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Šikić, Mile; Lančić, Alen; Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Epidemic centrality — is there an underestimated epidemic impact of network peripheral nodes?. // European physical journal B : condensed matter physics, 86 (2013), 10; 440, 13 doi:10.1140/epjb/e2013-31025-5 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Lančić, Alen; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Šikić, Mile
FastSIR algorithm : A fast algorithm for the simulation of the epidemic spread in large networks by using the susceptible–infected–recovered compartment model. // Information sciences, 239 (2013), 226-240 doi:10.1016/j.ins.2013.03.036 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Domazet, Silvije; Radovanović, Voja; Simonović, Marko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
On analytical solutions of f(R) modified gravity theories in FLRW cosmologies. // International journal of modern physics D, 22 (2013), 1350006, 18 doi:10.1142/S0218271813500065 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Čaplar, Neven; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Generalized models of unification of dark matter and dark energy. // Physical Review D – Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 87 (2013), 2; 023510-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.023510 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Formaggio, J.A.; Lazić, Predrag; Corona, T.J.; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Abraham, Hrvoje; Gluck, F.
Solving for micro- and macro-scale electrostatic configurations using the robin hood algorithm. // Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 39 (2012), 1-37 doi:10.2528/PIERB11112106 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Dimitrijević, Marija; Radovanović, Voja; Štefančić, Hrvoje
AdS-inspired noncommutative gravity on the Moyal plane. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 86 (2012), 10; 105041, 13 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.105041 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Popović, Marko; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko
Geometric Origin of Scaling in Large Traffic Networks. // Physical Review Letters, 109 (2012), 20; 208701-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.208701 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Domazet, Silvije; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Renormalization group scale-setting from the action—a road to modified gravity theories. // Classical and quantum gravity, 29 (2012), 23; 35005-1 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/29/23/235005 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Lazić, Predrag; Dujmić, Denis; Formaggio, Joseph A.; Abraham, Hrvoje; Štefančić, Hrvoje
New approach to 3D electrostatic calculations for micro-pattern detectors. // Journal of Instrumentation, 6 (2011), P12003-1 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/6/12/P12003 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Bauer, Florian; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Relaxing a large cosmological constant in the astrophysical domain. // Modern physics letters A, 26 (2011), 2559-2578 doi:10.1132/S0217732311036942 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Domazet, Silvije; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Renormalization Group scale-setting in astrophysical systems. // Physics letters B, 703 (2011), 1; 1-6 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.038 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Lančić, Alen; Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Šikić, Mile; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Phase diagram of epidemic spreading — unimodal vs. bimodal probability distributions. // Physica. A, Statistical mechanics and its applications, 390 (2011), 1; 65-76 doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.06.024 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Zlatić, Vinko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Model of Wikipedia growth based on information exchange via reciprocal arcs. // Europhysics Letters, 93 (2011), 5; 58005-1 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/93/58005 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Ahel, M; Antičić, T; Balog, T; Bilić, N; Guberina, B; Katušić Hećimović, S; Jerić, I; Klanjšček, T; Legović, T; Musić, S et al.
The Ruder Boskovic Institute – Today and Tomorrow. // Periodicum biologorum, 112 (2010), 4; 369-374 (međunarodna recenzija, pregledni rad, znanstveni)
- Bauer, Florian; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Dynamically avoiding fine-tuning the cosmological constant: the “Relaxed Universe”. // Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 12 (2010), 029-1 doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/029 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Duplančić, Goran; Glavan, Dražen; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Probability distribution of the vacuum energy density. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 82 (2010), 12; 125008, 5 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.125008 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Bauer, Florian; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
The Relaxed Universe : towards solving the cosmological constant problem dynamically from an effective action functional of gravity. // Physics letters. B, 668 (2010), 269-272 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Bauer, Florian; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Relaxing a large cosmological constant. // Physics Letters B, 678 (2009), 5; 427-433 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.06.065 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Zlatić, Vinko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Influence of reciprocal edges on degree distribution and degree correlations. // Physical Review E – Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 80 (2009), 1 Part 2; 016117-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.016117 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
The Solution of the cosmological constant problem from the inhomogeneous equation of state : A Hint from modified gravity?. // Physics letters. B, 670 (2009), 4-5; 246-253 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.10.065 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Zamora-Lopez, Gorka; Zlatić, Vinko; Zhou, Changsong; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Kurths, Jürgen
Reciprocity of Networks with Degree Correlations and Arbitrary Degree Sequence. // Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 77 (2008), 1; 016106, 8 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.77.016106 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Lazić, Predrag; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Abraham, Hrvoje
The Robin Hood method – A new view on differential equations. // Engineering analysis with boundary elements, 32 (2008), 1; 76-89 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Alcaniz, Jailson; Štefančić , Hrvoje
“Expansion” around the vacuum: how far can we go from Delta?. // Astronomy and Astrophysics, 462 (2007), 2; 443-448 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Grande, Javier; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Composite dark energy : cosmon models with running cosmological term and gravitational coupling. // Physics Letters B, 645 (2007), 2-3; 235-244 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2006.12.040 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Grande, Javier; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
What is there in the black box of dark energy: variable cosmological parameters or multiple (interacting) components?. // Journal of Physics A – Mathematical and Theoretical, 40 (2007), 25; 6935-6940 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Bilić, Neven; Guberina, Branko; Horvat, Raul; Nikolić, Hrvoje; Štefančić, Hrvoje
On cosmological implications of gravitational trace anomaly. // Physics Letters B, 657 (2007), 4-5; 232-237 doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.067 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Grande, Javier; Sola, Joan; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Cosmologies with variable parameters and dynamical cosmon: Implications on the cosmic coincidence problem. // Journal of Physics A – Mathematical and Theoretical, 40 (2007), 25; 6787-6799 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Sola, J.; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Dynamical dark energy or variable cosmological parameters?. // Modern Physics Letters A, 21 (2006), 479-494 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Grande, J.; Sola, J.; Štefančić, Hrvoje
LXCDM: A Cosmon model solution to the cosmological coincidence problem?. // Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0608 (2006) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Lazić, Predrag; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Abraham, Hrvoje
The Robin Hood method- A novel numerical method for electrostatic problems based on a non-local charge transfer. // Journal of Computational Physics, 213 (2006), 117-140 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Zlatić, Vinko; Božičević, Miran; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Domazet, Mladen
Wikipedias: Collaborative web-based encyclopedias as complex networks. // Physical Review E – Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, & Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 74 (2006) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Nojiri Shin’ichi; Odintsov, Seregei D.; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Transition from a matter-dominated era to a dark energy universe. // Physical Review D – Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 74 (2006), 8; 086009-1 doi:0.1103/PhysRevD.74.086009 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Stepanić, Josip; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko
Social free energy of a pareto-like resource distribution. // Interdisciplinary description of complex systems, 4 (2006), 2; 136-143. (https://www.bib.irb.hr/532425) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Crossing of the cosmological constant boundary – an equation of state description. // Journal of Physics A – Mathematical & General, 39 (2006), 6761-6768 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Sola, J.; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Cosmology with variable parameters and effective equation of state for dark energy. // Journal of Physics A – Mathematical & General, 39 (2006), 6753-6760 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Babić, Ana; Guberina, Branko; Horvat, Raul; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Renormalization-group running cosmologies: A scale-setting procedure. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 71 (2005) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Sola, J; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Effective equation of state for dark energy: mimicking quintessence and phantom energy through a variable Lambda. // Physics letters. B, 624 (2005), 147-157 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Horvat, Raul; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Hint for quintessence-like scalars from holographic dark energy. // Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 05 (2005), 001-007 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Dark energy transition between quintessence and phantom regimes – an equation of state analysis. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 71 (2005) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
“Expansion” around the vacuum equation of state – sudden future singularities and asymptotic behavior. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 71 (2005) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko
Preferential attachment with information filtering : node degree probability distribution properties. // Physica. A : Statistical mechanics and its applications, 350 (2005), 2/4; 657-670 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Shapiro, I.L.; Sola, J.; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Running G and \Lambda at low energies from physics at M_X: possible cosmological and astrophysical implications. // Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 1 (2005), 12-12 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko
“Winner takes it all”: strongest node rule for evolution of scale free networks. // Physical review E, 72 (2005) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Babić, Ana; Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Cabibbo-suppressed decays of the Omega_c^0 – feedback to the Xi_c^+ lifetime. // Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 70 (2004), 117501-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.11750 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Kasać, Josip; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Stepanić, Josip
Comparison of social and physical free energies on a toy model. // Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 70 (2004), 016117-1 doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.70.016117 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Phantom appearance of non-phantom matter. // European physical journal C : particles and fields, 36 (2004) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Partial rip scenario – a cosmology with a growing cosmological term. // Physics letters. B, 595 (2004) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Generalized phantom energy. // Physics Letters B, 586 (2004) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Horvat, Raul; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Renormalization-group running of the cosmological constant and the fate of the universe. // Physical Review D, 67 (2003), 8; 083001-9 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Babić, Ana; Guberina, Branko; Horvat, Raul; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Renormalization-group running of the cosmological constant and its implication for the Higgs boson mass in the Standard Model. // Physical Review D, 6508 (2002), 8 Part B. (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Cabibbo suppressed decays and the Xic+ lifetime. // Physical Review D, 65 (2002) (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Lifetime-difference pattern of heavy hadrons. // Physics Letters B, 484 (2000), 1-2; 43-50 doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00620-1 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Stepanić, Jr., Josip; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Žebec, Mislav-Stjepan; Peračković, Krešimir
Approach to a Quantitative Description of Social Systems Based on Thermodynamic Formalism. // Entropy (Basel. Online), 2 (2000), 3; 98-105 doi:10.3390/e2030098 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Inclusive decays and lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons. // European physical journal C, 9 (1999), 2; 213-219 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Enhancement of preasymptotic effects in inclusive beauty decays. // Physics letters B, 469 (1999), 1-4; 253-258 doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01198-3 (međunarodna recenzija, članak, znanstveni)
Papers in conference proceedings
Scientific conference papers
- Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Lančić, Alen; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Šikić, Mile; Šmuc, Tomislav
Statistical Inference Framework for Source Detection of Contagion Processes on Arbitrary Network Structures. // Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops
Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 2015. str. 78-83 (ostalo, međunarodna recenzija, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Lifetime pattern of heavy hadrons. // Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2000) / Lim, C ; Yamanaka, Taku (ur.).
Singapore: World Science, 2001. str. 888-890 (pozvano predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni)
- Guberina, Branko; Melić, Blaženka; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Inclusive decays and lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons. // Proceedings of the XVII Autumn School, QCD: Perturbative or Nonperturbative? / Ferreira, Lidia S. ; Nogueira, Paulo ; Silva-Marcos, Joaquim I. (ur.).
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2001. str. 363-368 (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni)
Abstracts from sets
Abstracts in proceedings and journals
- Bara, Mario; Mišetić, Roko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Tražitelji azila u migrantskoj populaciji Europske unije (2014.-2016.):prema tipologiji zemalja tražitelja azila. // XXIII međunarodni znanstveni simpozij: Migracije stanovništva – fenomen izbjeglištva (Knjižica sažetaka) / XXIII International Scientific Symposium: Migration of Population – the Phenomenon of Refugeeism (Abstracts Booklet) (XXIII International Scientific Symposium: Migration of Population – the Phenomenon of Refugeeism (Abstracts Booklet)) / Jogunčić, Dževad ; Berberović, Sead ; Župarić-Iljić, Drago (ur.).
Zagreb: Bošnjačka nacionalna zajednica za Grad Zagreb i Zagrebačku županiju, Zagreb, Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Fondacija Mulla Sadra, Sarajevo, 2016. str. 25-25 (predavanje, domaća recenzija, sažetak, znanstveni)
- Šikić, Mile; Lančić, Alen; Antulov-Fantulin, Nino; Štefančić, Hrvoje
Epidemic centrality – identifying “superspreaders” in complex networks. // Book of Abstracts ECCS’11 Vienna / Thurner, Stefan ; Szell, Michael (ur.).
Beč, Austrija, 2011. str. 124-125 (poster, sažetak, znanstveni)
Other participation in meetings
- Popović, Marko; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko
Geometric origin of scaling in large scale traffic networks. // ECCS 2011
Beč, Austrija, 2011. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
- Zlatić, Vinko; Štefančić, Hrvoje
On the reciprocal links in complex networks. // International workshop and conference on network science NetSci 2008
Norwich, Velika Britanija, 2008. (poster, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo)
Evaluation works
Doctoral dissertations
- Domazet, Silvije
Modifikacije gravitacijskog međudjelovanja učincima kvantnih polja., 2013., doktorska disertacija, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb. (https://www.bib.irb.hr/687594)
- Zlatić, Vinko
Struktura kompleksnih mreža u modelima rasta s nepotpunom informacijom., 2009., doktorska disertacija, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Hijerarhija vremena života hadrona s teškim kvarkovima., 2002., doktorska disertacija, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb
Master’s theses
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Predasimptotski efekti u inkluzivnim raspadima teških kvarkova., 2000., magistarski rad, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb
Graduation theses (including diploma theses of the old program)
- Dražen Glavan
Gustoća energije vakuuma u kvantnoj teoriji polja., 2011., diplomski rad, diplomski, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb
- Štefančić, Hrvoje
Inkluzivni raspadi teških kvarkova., 1996., diplomski rad, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb
Other types of work
- Krause, Sebastian M.; Štefančić, Hrvoje; Zlatić, Vinko; Caldarelli, Guido
Controlling systemic risk – network structures that minimize it and node properties to calculate it., 2020. (znanstveni rad).