Ružica Beljo Lučić, Ph. D., was born in 1966 in Tovarnik, Croatia. She graduated in 1989, received M. Sc. degree in 1993 and Ph. D. in 1998 from the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb. In 1990 she started to work as a junior research assistant, in 1999 she is elected at position of assistant professor and currently holds a position of full professor at the Institute of Processes Engineering at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb. She was Vice dean in mandates 2004/2006 and 2006/2008. From 2012 to 2016 she was assistant minister for higher education in the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Drvna industrija Journal since 2003.

Her scientific work is focused on optimization of woodworking and machined surface quality, woodworkers’ exposure to noise and wood dust, transport equipment and properties of wood particles generated during woodworking. She is reviewer of articles in 8 scientific journals indexed in Web of Science.

As a researcher, she has participated in more than 10 scientific projects and three scientific grants. She actively participates in foreign and domestic international scientific and professional conferences and seminars. Her bibliography contains more than 100 entries, of which more than 80 are scientific papers. She was mentor of 4 doctoral theses and 12 graduate theses.

Her professional work is focused on the optimization of machine, equipment and tools in the wood processing industry and the design of technological processes with emphasis on the selection of machines and transport equipment. The special field of her interest is education policy, qualifications frameworks and quality assurance in higher education. She has participated as short term expert or consultant in several international EU funded projects in Croatia and abroad.