Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
| Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu |
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| Latin: Facultas Scientiarum Naturalium et Mathematicarum | |
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 8 June 1946 |
| Dean | Prof. Zoran Curić, PhD |
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Academic staff
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468 |
| Students | c. 6,000 |
| Location | Zagreb, Croatia |
| Campus | Horvatovac |
| Nickname | PMF |
| Website | pmf.unizg.hr |
Faculty of Science (Croatian: Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, abbr: PMF) is one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb.
The Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb was established in 1946, although teaching started already in 1876. The faculty comprises seven departments, the seismological service, the mareographic and meteorological stations, and the Zagreb Botanical Garden. The Faculty has 288 full professors, associate and assistant professors, 180 junior researchers and about 6000 students. The Faculty offers undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate study programmes, and pursues research in the fields of natural sciences and mathematics. The Faculty of Science is engaged in excellent cooperation with numerous universities and institutes abroad. Professors of the Faculty have been invited as visiting lecturers to European and American universities, and young staff members, as well as postgraduate students, are regularly sent to international universities and institutes for further research.
On 23 September 1669. Leopold I certified at the Jesuit Neoacademica Zagrebiensis, a three-year higher education institution, which gradually developed the studies of Philosophy, Law and Theology. At the Jesuit School philosophy was taught even earlier, and part of its first year studies were logic, physics, and metaphysics. Neither Jesuit School (until 1773), nor royal Regia Scientiarum Academica (until 1850) represented a real university. Croatian Parliament and Franz Joseph I of Austria, introduced the Law on founding the University of Zagreb. Soon after the establishing of the University of Zagreb, Faculties of Law, Theology and Philosophy started operating. The Chairs of the Faculty of Philosophy were appointed gradually. In the field of natural sciences the teaching started in 1876, with first lectures in mineralogy and geology, and then in botany, physics, mathematics, chemistry and zoology and geography. A long endeavour of the Science Department of the Faculty of Philosophy to attain the status of Faculty, finally materialized in 1946, when the Faculty of Science was established.
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