Mario Juric is a student of 3rd year of physics at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He is the project leader of the "Visnjan Observatory Database 2" project, a joint project of CARNet and Visnjan Observatory. During the past 2 years, Mario Juric has been the chief software architect of Visnjan Observatory's automated astronomical data acquisition system known as RINGS. Since the introduction RINGS, more than 1000 new asteroids and two comets (comet Korlevic-Juric and comet Korlevic) were discovered. For his work on strategies of observing and searching for asteroids developed in Visnjan ("VOS - Visnjan Observing Strategy"), he has been awarded the 1999 University of Zagreb Dean's award. With Korado Korlevic he co-authored a presentation named "Visnjan Observatory NEO Followup" presented at International Astronomical Union's ACM '99 conference at Cornell University.