Anna-Maria Getos Kalac (PhD Freiburg, 2010; LL.M. Freiburg, 2004) holds a full professorship at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, where she has conducted criminological research and has tought criminology, victimology, penology and basics of criminal law since 2006. In 2018 she was appointed Professeur Invité at the School of Criminal Sciences, University of Lausanne, whereas in 2020 she was appointed Professeur Invité at Sciences Po in Paris. As a foreign visiting professor (09/2017-10/2019) she completed an extended research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg.

Back in 2012 Professor Getoš Kalac initiated the Max Planck Society funded Balkan Criminology research group and has meanwhile managed to revive criminological research in Croatia and the Balkans, thereby re-focusing European criminological attention back to Southeast Europe. The relevant three major “mappings” cover core areas of the criminological landscape of the Balkans: criminology, victimology and penology (Balkan Criminology Book Series). More recently she has conducted the Balkan Homicide Study in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, which focuses on (lethal) violence in 8 states of the region. In 2021 the relevant research findings were published in the Springer Briefs in Criminology under the title “Violence in the Balkans”. The publication corresponds to Dr. Getoš Kalac’s invited plenary at the forthcoming conference of the European Society of Criminology to be held in Bucharest. Back in 2019 she was invited plenary speaker at the biannual conference of the Association of German, Austrian and Swiss Criminologists held in Vienna. As of 2018 Professor Getoš Kalac has successfully headed a transdisciplinary Violence Research Lab in Croatia, she has chaired the ESC working group “European Violence Monitor”, and has thus worked on topics such as terrorism, political violence and radicalisation; fear of crime and punitivity; crime policy reform in transitional societies; organised crime, criminal state capture and corruption; Croatian and regional crime statistics, incl. European Sourcebook of crime and criminal justice statistics; ISRD3 Croatia; restorative justice. Professor Getoš Kalac is fluent in Croatian, German and English and has also published her work in Italian and Spanish.

12/2020 – present: Visiting Professor (professeur invité) at Sciences Po in Paris on “Law and (In)Security in the Pre-Crime Era”

12/2018 – present: Founder and Co-Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group European Violence Monitor

10/2018 – 09/2019: Visiting Foreign Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (sabbatical at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia)

09/2018 – 06/2019: Teaching appointment (Lehrauftrag) at the University of Hamburg’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences in “Kriminologische Gewaltforschung – Mainstream-Ansätze und innovative Alternativen”

05/2018 – present: Visiting Professor (professeur invité) at the University of Lausanne’s School of Criminal Sciences in “Victimology & Victim Assistance”

03/2018 – present: Head of the Violence Research Lab, established by the CroViMo installation research project (Croatian Violence Monitor: A Study of the Phenomenology, Etiology, and Prosecution of Delinquent Violence with Focus on Protecting Particularly Vulnerable Groups of Victims), jointly funded by the Zagreb Faculty of Law and the Croatian Science Foundation

08/2017 – 10/2018: Visiting Foreign Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany (research leave from the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia)

04/2017 – present: Member of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics Experts Group, coordinator for Balkan countries and Croatia correspondent for the ESB’s 6th edition

02/2017 – present: Associate Professor in the field of law, branch of criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology and victimology at the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia

2014 – present: Founder and Co-Editor of the publication series “Research Series of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Series BC: Publications of the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology” (publishers: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. in coop. with Duncker & Humblot in coop. with the University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law)

2014 – 2017: Elected member of the Board of the European Society of Criminology

2014 – present: Founder and Co-Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Balkan Criminology

11/2012 – 04/2019: Head of the Max Planck Partner Group for ‘Balkan Criminology’ jointly established between the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia; funded by the Max Planck Society

12/2011 – 02/2017: Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessur) in the field of law, branch of criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology and victimology at the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia

25/11/2011: Venia legend et examinandi: Licence to teach awarded in the framework of appointment as assistant professor (Juniorprofessur) in the field of law, branch of criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology and victimology (habilitation lecture: Fear of Crime & Punitivity)

01/2011 – 12/2011: Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia

12/2010: Iuris Doctorem (dr.iur.) – graduated at the Albert Ludwig University – Faculty of Law in Freiburg, Germany with summa cum laude (Doctoral viva in the subject areas ‘Criminal Law with Dependant Areas’ and ‘Modern Era Constitutional History and General Theory of State’), while conducting doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law; Dissertation: Political Violence in the Balkans. Focus: Terrorism and Hate Crimes – Concepts, Developments, and Analysis

01/2009 – 05/2009: Scientific Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Department of Criminology, HUMSEC Project, Freiburg, Germany

2006 – 2010: Croatian researcher for the 3rd and 4th edition of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics

Fall 2006: Venia legend et examinandi: Special licence to teach university courses offered by the Department of Criminal Law, awarded by the Faculty Council due to extraordinary scientific and professional qualification

02/2006 – 01/2011: Lecturer at the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Zagreb, Croatia

06/2005 – 02/2006: Head of PIU at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Project Implementation Unit (PIU) and Member of Working-Group for Croatian EU Accession Negotiations for Chapter 25: Science and Technology

04/2005 – 12/2010: PhD Candidate at the Albert Ludwig University – Faculty of Law in Freiburg, conducting doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (political violence in the Balkans)

07/2004: Legum Magister (LL.M.) – graduated at the Albert Ludwig University – Faculty of Law in Freiburg, Germany with summa cum laude (examination in criminal and administrative law) while conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law; Master’s thesis: Terrorism Prevention in Transitional Societies: A Study on Root Causes, Favourable Factors and Development Modalities of International Terrorism

09/2002 – 07/2004: Master of Law studies at the Albert Ludwig University – Faculty of Law in Freiburg, while conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (prevention of terrorism in transitional societies)

07/2002: Diploma in Criminal Justice (dipl.krim.) – graduated at the Police Academy – High Police School in Zagreb, Croatia with summa cum laude

10/1997 – 08/2002: Studies in Criminal Justice (Kriminalistik/Polizeiwissenschaften) of 8 semester diploma program at the Police Academy – High Police School in Zagreb, Croatia

06/1997: “Abitur” certificate – graduated from the Linguistic Academic High School in Osijek, Croatia

09/1993 – 07/1997: Academic high school secondary education of 4 years at the Linguistic Academic High School in Osijek, Croatia (II. jezična gimnazija u Osijeku)

09/1992 – 07/1993: Elementary school education of 1 year (8th grade) and elementary school graduation from the elementary school “Franje Krežme” in Osijek, Croatia

1989 – 1992: Academic high school secondary education of 3 years (5th, 6th and 7th grade) at the Academic High School in Leutkirch, Germany (Hans-Multscher-Gymnasium)

1985 – 1989: Elementary school education of 4 years (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade) and elementary school graduation from the elementary school “Oberer Graben” in Leutkirch, Germany

11/1979 – 07/1992: Born and raised in Leutkirch im Allgäu, Germany