Physics

Scientists at National Laboratories

Dr. Radoje Belušević

• Position: Staff Scientist in the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan.
• Research areas: experimental high energy physics, neutrino phenomenology, Higgs production in photon-photon collisions, data acquisition electronics,
• Education: Ph.D. University of Birmingham, UK; B.S. University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Dr. Ivan Božović

• Position: Molecular Beam Epitaxy Group Leader, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductors.
• Education: Ph.D. and B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Emil Božin

• Position: Associate Research Scientist, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, local structural effects in perovskite oxides and related compounds, structurally disordered and nanoscale materials.
• Education: Ph.D. Michigan State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Predrag S. Krstić

• Position: Senior Research Staff Member, AMO Theory, Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical and computational atomic-molecular-optical (AMO) physics, collisions (atoms, molecules), laser-atom interactions, plasma-surface interactions, molecular and bio electronics, nano-bio physics.
• Education: Ph.D. City College of CUNY New York, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Marjana Ležaić

• Position: Young Investigator Staff, Institute of Solid State Research, Research Center Jülich, Germany.
• Research areas: computational condensed matter physics, electronic-structure theory, complex materials, complex magnetism, half-metallic ferromagnets; multiferroics; nanoferronics, metal/ferroelectric interfaces, high performance scientific computing.
• Education: Ph.D. RWTH Aachen University, Germany; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Cedomir Petrovic (Чедомир Петровић)

• Position: Scientist, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA; Adjunct Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, strongly correlated electrons, new materials for spintronics and thermoelectrics applications.
• Education: Ph.D. Florida State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dragana Popović

• Position: Scholar/Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) systems in semiconductor heterostructures, effects of disorder and strong electronic correlations, mesoscopic effects; 2D metal-insulator transition; glassy freezing and glassy dynamics, noise, high-temperature superconductors.
• Education: Ph.D. Brown University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Miloš M. Škorić

• Position: Full Professor, Fundamental Physics Simulation Research Division, National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan.
• Research areas: theoretical plasma physics, fusion and Laboratory Plasma Physics, theory and simulation of nonlinear plasmas, strong Langmuir turbulence, ponderomotive effects in plasmas, relativistic laser-plasma interaction, complexity and self-organization, structures in turbulent plasmas.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

University Professors

Dr. Dolores Božović

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
• Research areas: experimental soft condensed matter physics, biological physics, sensory neuroscience.
• Education: Ph.D. Harvard University, USA; B.S. Stanford University, USA.

Dr. Časlav Brukner

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria; Visiting Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
• Research areas: quantum information theory, information-theoretical foundations of quantum physics, entanglement detection by macroscopic quantities, quantum communication complexity.
• Education: Ph.D. Vienna University of Technology, Austria; B.S. University of Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Dragomir Davidović

• Position: Associate Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, discrete energy levels in metallic nanoparticles, single electron transistors and ferroelectricity, gated tips for scanning tunneling microscopy, exploring phase transformations using nm-scale electronics.
• Education: Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, USA; B.Sc. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vladimir Dobrosavljević

• Position: Full Professor and Director of Condensed Matter Science-Theory at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics.
• Education: Ph.D. Brown University, USA; B.Sc. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Marija Drndić

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, nanophysics.
• Education: Ph.D. Harvard University, USA; M.Phil. Cambridge University, UK; B.S. Harvard University, USA.

Dr. Saša Đorđević

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Akron, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, infrared and optical spectroscopy, superconductivity, vortex dynamics, low-dimensional metals, heavy fermions, glasses and polymers.
• Education: Ph.D. University of California San Diego, USA; University of Niš, Serbia.

Dr. Stanislav George Đorgovski

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Astronomy and Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology, USA.
• Research areas: interplay between computationally enabled science and science-driven computing, virtual Observatory, large

digital sky surveys and software systems, exploration of data parameter spaces, advanced data-mining and exploration techniques. Extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, galaxy formation, fundamental properties of galaxies, γ-ray bursts, quasars, radio galaxies, gravitational lenses, globular star clusters, early structure evolution, cosmological tests, the nature of dark energy.

• Education: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, USA; University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. László Forró

• Position: Full Professor, Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, novel electronic materials, functional nanostructures, biological physics.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Zagreb, Croatia; B.S. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

Dr. Leonardo Golubović

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Physics, West Virginia University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, biological physics.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Zoran Hadžibabić

• Position: Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK.
• Research areas: experimental atomic physics, ultracold gases, superfluidity, quantum magnetism, non-equilibrium phenomena, the effects of reduced dimensionality in both bosonic and fermionic systems.
• Education: Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; B.S. Cambridge University, UK.

Dr. Igor Herbut

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity and Bose-Einstein condensation, quantum and classical phase transitions and critical phenomena, disordered systems, strongly interacting electrons.
• Education: Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Tristan Hübsch

• Position: Full Professor, Departments of Physics & Astronomy & Mathematics, Howard University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, superstring theory, supersymmetry and supersymmetric systems, superspace and related techniques, mathematical physics.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park, USA; B.S. University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Dr. Antal Jevicki

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, string theory, matrix models, quantum chromodynamics, quantum gravity, black holes, non-perturbative and collective phenomena.
• Education: Ph.D. City College of New York, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Nemanja Kaloper

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Davis, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, string theory, cosmology.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Minnesota, USA; B.S. University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Dr. Irena Knežević

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices, nanowire thermoelectrics, heat transport on the nanoscale, ecoherence and relaxation in nanostructures, transient and high-frequency response, transport in curved 2D electron systems, solid-state-based quantum information processing.
• Education: Ph.D. Arizona State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Maja Krčmar

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Grand Valley State University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, first-principles calculations to study structural and electronic properties of diverse physical systems (from ferroelectric insulators to metals and alloys).
• Education: Ph.D. Texas A & M University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Jané Kondev

• Position: Full Professor, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, biological physics, mechanical properties of polymers, regulation of gene expression and DNA packing in viruses, effect of confinement and constraints on the equilibrium structure and dynamics of fluctuating lines and surfaces.
• Education: Ph.D. Cornell University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Miodrag Kulić

• Position: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, superconductivity.
• Education: Ph.D. and B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Petar Maksimović

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental high energy physics.
• Education: Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Jelena Maričić

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Drexel University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental high energy physics, neutrino properties, neutrino oscillations, CP-violation in lepton sector, geo-neutrinos.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Milica Medved

• Position: Assistant Professor, Lynn S. Florsheim MRIS Lab, University of Chicago, USA.
• Research areas: medical physics, magnetic resonance imaging.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Chicago, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Aleksandar Miković

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Lusófona University, Portugal.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, quantum Gravity, quantum field theory.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Maryland College Park, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Đorđe Minić

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Virgnia Tech University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, string theory.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Texas Austin, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Božidar Mitrović

• Position: Full Professor, Department of Physics, Brock University, Canada.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, fluctuations in superconductors, multiband superconductors, localization and superconductivity, high-Tc superconducting materials, superconducting glassy state, transport properties of heavy fermion systems.
• Education: Ph.D. McMaster University, Canada; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vesna F. Mitrović

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Brown University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, NMR spectroscopy techniques.
• Education: Ph.D. Northwestern University, USA; B.S. Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.

Dr. Branislav K. Nikolić

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, spintronics, graphene nanoelectronics, strongly correlated electrons, quantum transport, nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics, high performance scientific computing.
• Education: Ph.D. Stony Brook University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Predrag Nikolić

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, George Mason University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, strongly correlated many-body systems, quantum phases and phase transitions.
• Education: Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vladimir Petričević

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, City College of the CUNY, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, characterization and development of tunable solid-state lasers, growth and characterization of laser crystals, spectroscopy of impurity ions in crystals, ultrafast spectroscopy, fiber and waveguide amplifiers, optical communications.
• Education: Ph.D. City University of New York, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Snežana Stanimirović

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA.
• Research areas: radio astronomy, small ionized and neutral structures in the diffuse interstellar medium.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Western Sydney, Australia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dejan Stojković

• Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical high energy physics, cosmology, general relativity, particle physics, quantum field theory, black holes, extra dimensions, brane world models, beyond the Standard Model phenomenology, topological defects.
• Education: Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrad, Serbia.

Dr. Vlatko Vedral

• Position: Full Professor of Quantum Information Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
• Research areas: quantum mechanics and quantum information theory, theoretical quantum optics, entanglement in macroscopic systems, topological phases and one-way quantum computation.
• Education: Ph.D. and B.S. Imperial College London, UK.

Dr. Vladan Vuletić

• Position: Lester Wolfe Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
• Research areas: experimental atomic physics, ultracold atoms, cavity QED, quantum optics, atom-cavity interaction, cavity cooling, degenerate Raman sideband cooling, cold collisions, Feshbach resonances, molecule formation, microchip traps for Bose-Einstein condensates or ions, laser spectroscopy, laser design.
• Education: Ph.D. and B.S. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Dr. Jelena Vučković

• Position: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA.
• Research areas: experimental and theoretical research in nanophotonics and quantum photonics, nanophotonics, photonic crystals, devices and circuits (including optical microcavities, lasers, optical switches and modulators, active silicon nanophotonics, solid-state photonic quantum information technologies, cavity quantum electrodynamics in solid-state.
• Education: Ph.D. Caltech, USA; B.S. University of Niš, Serbia.

Dr. Lepša Vušković

• Position: Eminent Professor, Department of Physics, Old Dominion University, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical atomic and molecular physics, atomic collisions.
• Education: University of Belgrade, Serbia; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Vladimir Cvetković

• Position: Postoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Riverside, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, strongly correlated quantum matter, iron-pnictides superconductivity, cuprate superconductivity, gauge field theories in condensed matter, duality, graphene.
• Education: Ph.D. Leiden University, The Netherlands; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vladimir Juričić

• Position: Postoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics.
• Education: Ph.D. University Utrecht, The Netherlands; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Katarina Kovač

• Position: Postoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
• Research areas: extragalactic astrophysics, observational cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution and large scale structure.
• Education: Ph.D. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Igor Kulić

• Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, CNRS Strasbourg, France.
• Research areas: theoretical biophysics, polymer physics, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, bio-nanomachines.
• Education: Mainz University & Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; B.S. University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Dr. Goran Mihajlović

• Position: Postoctoral Fellow, Materials Science Divsion, Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: experimental condensed matter physics, spintronics.
• Education: Ph.D. Florida State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Jelena Stajić

• Position: Postoctoral Fellow, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, biological physics, mathematical modeling of gene circuits, signal transduction in prokaryotes, superfluidity in ultracold Fermi gases, high temperature superconductivity
• Education: Ph.D. University of Chicago, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Dimitrije Stepanenko

• Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, spintronics, quantum computing.
• Education: Ph.D. Florida State University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Vladimir M. Stojanović

• Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, polarons in solid-state systems.
• Education: Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, USA; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. Mihajlo Vanević

• Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
• Research areas: theoretical condensed matter physics, mesoscopic transport, noise, statistics of charge transfer, circuit theory of mesoscopic transport, circuit theory of mesoscopic transport, superconductivity, field theoretical methods in condensed matter physics, quantum entanglement in many-body systems, electronic properties of graphene and related nanostructures, polarons in solid-state systems.
• Education: Ph.D. University of Basel, Switzerland; B.S. University of Belgrade, Serbia.