Ivica Puljak (born 27 August 1969) is a Croatian politician, particle physicist and professor at University of Split's FESB division.

[2] Growing up in Split and attending primary and high school in his hometown, he dreamed of becoming a footballer for the local club, Hajduk.

[3] Puljak is married to Marijana Rakuljić,[4] the founder of Pametno and a member of Croatian Parliament.

He was a co-coordinator of more than a hundred scientists from all over the world working on the most sensitive and precise of all physical processes through which the Higgs boson was discovered and measured.

[9] After about one year, a special election was summoned due to the dissolution of the city council, where Puljak had lost his majority.