Dr. Jelena Maletaskic, Associate Research Professor / Senior Research Associate. She completed her undergraduate studies (2008) and doctoral studies (2015) at the Department of Crystallography, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade. Since 2011, she has been permanently employed at the Materials Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Sciences Vinča. From October 2016 to April 2020, she was employed as a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. During her stay at the Institute, she mentored a master’s thesis. As part of this collaboration, a patent was published under the title: Ceramic Structures and Their Fabrication Process.
Her research interests lie in the fields of crystallography, materials science, ceramics, oxide ceramics, mechanochemistry, powder and single crystal synthesis, sintering, natural material characterization, and X-ray structural analysis. She is the author and co-author of over 50 papers published in journals indexed in the SCI list and has been cited more than 500 times. She has presented her work at over 30 international conferences. She is a member of the Serbian Ceramic Materials Society, where she has served as the Secretary since 2024, and the Serbian Society for Innovative Materials in Extreme Conditions. She has been involved in international projects of bilateral scientific cooperation between Serbia and Slovenia, Serbia and Austria, Serbia and Belarus, as well as two bilateral scientific cooperation projects between Serbia and China.
Currently, she is the principal investigator of an international project between Russia (JINR Dubna) and Serbia, where she also completed professional training in 2014 and 2015. She is also engaged in a bilateral scientific cooperation project between Serbia and Germany. She is a member of the organizing and scientific committees of international conferences, a reviewer for papers submitted for publication in SCI-indexed journals, and a mentor for a doctoral dissertation.
Head of the laboratory
Laboratory for Processing and Synthesis of Materials for Application in Extreme Conditions