Short Bio
Prof. Joler received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, in 2006 and 2001, respectively. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1996.
From 2000 to 2005, Prof. Joler worked with Professor Christos Christodoulou in ECE's Antennas & Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory. He worked as a research and teaching assistant at ECE, and he received the UNM Graduate Office's 2001 Research, Proposal, and Travel Award. He also served as session co-chair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society/URSI 2006 Symposium in Albuquerque.
Prof. Joler undertook postdoctoral work in 2006 with Portland State University, Portland, OR, where he served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and teaching at the Department of Physics.
In July 2007, he joined the Faculty of Engineering (RiTeh) at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, where he was appointed Assistant Professor in December 2007. In October 2008, he was appointed a Chair of the newly founded Department of Computer Engineering with the Faculty of Engineering in Rijeka. In 2008, he served as Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Maritime Studies of the University of Rijeka. In March 2013, Prof. Joler was appointed an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, where he also served as Head of the Communications Systems Group, Wireless Communications Lab Director, graduation committees associate chair and chair, amongst some other duties.
Joler's industry experience includes serving as an RF engineer with the Transmitters and Links Division of Croatian Radio and Television from 1996 to 1999, where he worked on analysis of terrain coverage by TV and radio signals, network planning, and design of new broadcast towers and antenna systems.
Currently, Prof. Joler is a member and reviewer of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (Transactions and Letters), a reviewer for several IEEE transactions and magazines and international conferences, he was also a proposal evaluator for the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Science and Technology Park of the University of Rijeka and periodic report evaluator for the Croatian Science Foundation. As of March 2013, he was appointed an Editorial Board Member for the Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation of SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing). In 2017, he was elected to the grade of the Associate of Croatian Academy of Engineering. Since 2018, he has been an Editorial Board Member for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and since 2019, he has been an Associate Editor for the Journal of Communications Software and Systems.
His current research interests include adaptive antenna systems, biomedical applications of electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, wireless communications, EMC/EMI, real-time remotely-controlled systems, and novel microwave and electronic circuits.