Tomislav Filetin was born on 29 December 1949 in Zagreb, where he finished gymnasium, graduated with master's degree and PhD from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture at the University of Zagreb. From 1974 to 2015 he worked at the Department for Materials within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. Beside lecturing at the FMENA Tomislav also lectured at the Faculty for Architecture – Industrial Design and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing – postgraduate specialist study. He is the author, coauthor and editor of 14 books and chapters in 5 books as well as more than 180 scientific and professional papers in journals and proceedings from conferences. Since 2016 Tomislav is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Zagreb. He is an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a full member of Croatian Academy of Engineering.

Drawing and painting since high school days he presented his art works in 2 solo and 3 group exhibitions. Tomislav lives and works in Zagreb.

— Web site at FMENA
— Art works