Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskoković

Dragan P. Uskoković is widely recognized as a distinguished scientist, educator and organizer in materials science and engineering, especially in synthesis, processing and application of nanoparticles, science, and technology of sintering and advanced functional materials in various fields of nanotechnology. His main research areas include synthesis of metallic, ceramic, and composite nanoparticles by molecular designing; rapidly solidified and amorphous systems; sintering and sintered materials; new methods for consolidation of amorphous powders by shock compaction; synthesis, characterization, and application of biomedical materials; electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries; and functionally graded materials. He was born on April 3, 1944 in Cetinje, Montenegro, where he finished primary school in 1958 and grammar school in 1962. He graduated from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy at Belgrade University in 1967, earned the master's degree in 1971 and authored the doctoral dissertation "Study of Basic Processes Occuring during Sintering of Crystalline Materials" in 1974. He started his research at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade in 1968, and just before earning the doctoral degree in July 1974, he accepted the offer to continue research in the new Sintering Department at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in Belgrade. He was elected in all scientific and academic titles and was the director of the Institute from 2001 until 2011. He was a professor at the Belgrade University and at the International Postgraduate Jozef Stefan Institute School in the program on Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies. Until now, he published one monograph of international reputation (Activated Sintering, with G. V. Samsonov and M. M. Ristić), and co-edited two books published by Plenum Press, SINTERING '85 (with G. S. Kuczynski, H. Palmour III and M. M. Ristić), and Science of Sintering: New Directions for Materials Processing and Microstructural Control (with H. Palmour III and R.M. Spriggs) , a series of eight books published by Trans Tech Publication, Zurich, Switzerland, and more recently a book Nanotechnologies in Preventive and Regenerative Medicine in collaboration with Vuk Uskoković, Elsevier, 2018. Under his guidance more than twenty Master theses and the same number of Ph.D. dissertations were prepared. He managed more than 20 scientific research projects in basic and technological research and several international projects with leading institutions (Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany, Kyoto University, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA, Korean Institute for the Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, and many Academy Institutes of ex-Soviet Union and Russia and Ukraine). According to Scopus, he published 262 articles, many of which in high-ranking journals, cited a significant number of times. He also held more than 100 invited lectures worldwide at different international Conferences or world-leading research centers and published numerous articles locally. Among the honors and awards, some of the distinguished ones are the 2007 Belgrade City Award for Natural and Technical Sciences (with Nenad Ignjatović) for the book Calcium Phosphate Ceramics-Bioresorbable Polymer Composites Biomaterials: From synthesis to applications (1999-2007); Ukrainian Materials Research Society with the Samsonov's ensign, for outstanding achievements in materials research in 2012; and Honorary diploma by the International Institute for the Science of Sintering, New Delhi, 1983. He is a long-term member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering, where he is a President (of the Presidential Board). He was a Coordinator of the national programs with European Union, as well as a Program Committee member of many international conferences and journals. He is a founder and President of Materials Research Society of Serbia, which held 26 YUCOMAT conferences in Herceg-Novi, Montenegro, between 1995 and 2025. His co-edited proceedings were published by Trans Tech Publications LTD, Zurich in the Materials Science Forum Edition and then in the journals Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Surface Engineering, Acta Physica Polonica, and International Journal of Modern Physics B. He was elected the full member of Academy of Engineering Science of Serbia (AESS) in 2004, and the Secretary of its Technology, Metallurgy and Materials Department (2008 - 2019).