Associate Professor Sunčana Roksandić (Scientist ID: 301401) was a scholarship holder and a doctoral candidate of the Criminology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (2021-2016). She completed her Doctoral study of Criminal Law at her home Faculty (2015) as well as the doctoral study of the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg (2016) by defending the dissertation as an international double doctorate (Cotutelle de thése) with summa cum laude. She is the recipient of a scholarship for postdoctoral research from the Marija and Mirjan Damaška Foundation (2019/2020).

She received an honorary doctorate (doctor honoris causa) from the East European University in Tbilisi, Georgia for her research activities related to ‘the responsibility of transnational corporations and other business enterprises for breaches of human rights’ in 2019. She is the winner of the annual award for the best young scientist in the field of social sciences of the Society of University Teachers and other Scientists of the University of Zagreb in 2011. She has been an external member of the Legislation Committee of the Croatian Parliament since 2021. In January 2023, she was appointed as a member of the Council for the Implementation of the Code of Conduct of State Officials in Executive Bodies and was elected as the Council’s president. She is a member of the GONG Council. She is the president of the Commission for the Protection of Persons with Mental Disabilities at the Ministry of Justice (since 2023). She is the head of the Croatian Unit of International Chair in Bioethics and a member of the UNODC anti-corruption academic initiative. She was the leader of the Jean Monnet project of the advanced seminar in EU criminal law and policy (2016-2019) and the co-founder and codirector of the course of the same name, which is held every year at the Interuniversity Centre in Dubrovnik.

As a member of working groups, she has participated in the adoption of laws and amendments to laws at the Ministry of Justice  (Criminal Code, Law on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disabilities). She has been a researcher in international, European and national scientific and professional projects, including the Croatian Science Foundation  (e.g. EU, UNODC, UNDP, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime) and a national expert for the implementation of EU legislation.