Radenka Marić (née Đekić; born 1966 or 1967) is an American engineer and academic who became the 17th president of the University of Connecticut (UConn) on September 28, 2022.

In 2016, she received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to accept a visiting chair professor appointment at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy.

[8][9] Her Fulbright award supported research into High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC), a clean energy technology.

[4] Over the course of her career, she has received more than $40 million in research funding, published more than 300 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and registered six patents.

[8] She is lead author of the book Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Fundamental Principles to Complete Systems (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2020).