Saša Zelenika is a tenured full professor and Head of the Precision Engineering Laboratory at UNIRI’s Faculty of Engineering (RITEH) and Member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences. He was Assistant Minister for Science and Deputy Minister at the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (2012-2014). He was also UNIRI’s Vice-Rector for Strategic Projects (2021-2025) and Rector’s Assistant (2019-2021), where he fostered UNIRI’s activities related to open science and AI, led the activities on the reform of research(er) assessment and was in charge of innovation and knowledge valorisation activities. He has authored 237 scientific and professional publications, 2 textbooks, a patent, 64 scientific broadening newspaper articles (and edited 37 of them), 144 broadening talks and 18 scientific broadening radio shows, and actively participates(ed) in 12 EU FP projects as well as numerous other EU, international and national scientific and technological projects. His research interests are in precision engineering, microsystems technologies, energy harvesting and mechatronics.