Dr Ivana Cvijović-Alagić, Full Research Professor / Principal Research Fellow and Corresponding Member of The Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia (AESS), obtained her B.Sc. (2003), M.Sc. (2006), and Ph.D. (2013) degree at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade. In the year 2002, attended advanced training at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE) in Düsseldorf, Germany. Since the year 2004, she has been employed at the Department of Material Science of the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade (VINS). She has been a Serbian representative and Executive Council Member at the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) since 2019, and since 2018 she has been President of the Serbian Vacuum Society, and Founder member and Secretary of the Serbian Society for Innovative Materials in Extreme Conditions. In 2024 she received special recognition from the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia as one of the 10% of the most successful/excellent researchers in Serbia.
Her scientific activities are focused on the development of high-entropy materials, alloys for application in biomedical engineering and alloys for high-temperature applications, novel processing methods for nanomaterials fabrication, microstructural characterization and stereological analysis, material mechanical, corrosive and tribological properties testing, fractographic analysis, development of innovative ceramic and composite materials, as well as mathematical modeling of the materials ductile fracture. She co-authored 174 scientific publications: 2 chapters in books of international importance, 73 scientific articles in SCI-indexed journals, 82 papers presented at national and international scientific conferences, as well as 17 publications in domestic scientific journals. Her research paper I. Cvijović-Alagić et al., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2010.11.014, published in Corrosion Science (M21a), received Elsevier’s recognition as it was listed in „Top25 Hottest Articles in 2011 – Corrosion Science“. Publications are cited in the literature more than 1270 times with a Hirsh index of 20 (>1080 times excluding citations of all authors with a Hirsh index of 16). As an invited Reviewer she is involved in the reviewing process of scientific papers submitted to several highly respected international scientific journals in М21а and М21 category. She is an Editor in 2 scientific journals and a member of the Organizing and International Scientific Committee of numerous international scientific conferences. Dr Ivana Cvijović-Alagić held the Keynote lectures at the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IIT-Madras) and Slovak Academy of Science, as well as a significant number of Invited Lectures at international scientific conferences.
She established long-term highly successful international collaboration with research groups all over the world (India, Japan, Germany, Slovakia, Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Austria, Ukraine, and Italy), reflected in the numerous joint publications and successful realization of 10 international research and development projects and acted as Principal Investigator in realization of 5 international scientific projects, i.e. Eureka, Erasmus+, bilateral cooperation projects (Austria, Belarus) and project with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia. Dr Cvijović-Alagić acts as the international projects reviewer for the Serbian Ministry of Science.
In engineering practice, her activities were primarily focused on the realization of 3 projects with industrial enterprises and the development of new technological solutions for recognized production problems in cooperation with numerous industrial and business enterprises.
Her active engagement in the realization of several PhD dissertations at the University of Belgrade through her mentorship and membership in Doctoral Dissertation Commissions, as well as the mentorship of B.Sc. and M.Sc. students during their advanced training, should be singled out.
Her organizational activities are perceived through her VINS executive scientific council and Ethics Commission membership. Since 2022 she has been a member and vice-president of the VINS Program Counsel, i.e. advisory board of the VINS’s Director.
In the year 2007 she received the Annual Award of the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences for exceptional research achievements.
Head of the Center of Excellence „CEXTREME LAB” and
Head of the Laboratory
Laboratory for surface characterization and damage prevention of materials for application in extreme conditions