Dr. Predrag Jovanović

Personal details Name: Predrag Jovanović Date of birth: April 14th, 1968. Place of birth: Višnjićevo, Municipality of Šid, Republic of Serbia Current position: Full research professor Affiliation: Astronomical Observatory, Volgina 7, 11060, Belgrade, Serbia Phone: +381-11-3089-068 Fax: +381-11-2419-553 E-mail: pjovanovic@aob.bg.ac.rs

Education:

• 2005 - Ph.D. in Astrophysics, Thesis: "Influence of gravitational microlensing on X-ray radiation from accretion disks of active galaxies", Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade (PDF version in Serbian)
• 1999 - M.Sc. in Astronomy, Thesis: "Solar activity influence on Earth rotation", Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
• 1995 - B.Sc. in Astronomy, Thesis: "1999 Total Solar Eclipse", Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
• 1987 - Final examination in Mathematics, Thesis: "Poincare's Model of Hyperbolic Geometry", High school in Sremska Mitrovica

Employment:

• 2015 - Full research professor, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• 2010 - 2015 - Associate research professor, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• 2007 - 2010 - Assistant research professor, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• 2000 - 2007 - Research assistant, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• 1996 - 2000 - Junior research assistant, Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade

Projects:

• 2011 - Leader of the project 176003: "Gravitation and the large scale structure of the Universe", funded by Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
• 2007 - 2010 - Leader of the project task: "Gravitational lenses and relativistic effects in accretion disk" within the project 146002: "Astrophysical Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Objects", funded by Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia

Teaching:

• 2012 - 2018 - Lecturer of the AstroMundus course "Gravitational Lenses"
• 2023 - Lecturer of the MASS courses "Gravitational Lenses" and "Gravitation and Cosmology"

Thesis co-supervision:

Doctoral dissertation:

• Marko Stalevski, 2012. Investigating the structure of active galactic nuclei: the dusty torus, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Master theses:

• Miriam Gudiño, 2017. The Hubble constant from time-delays of gravitationally lensed quasars, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade
• Tatjana Jakšić, 2010. Paralelizacija i programska implementacija algoritma za izračunavanje mapa gravitacionih sočiva, Matematički fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu

Other activities:

• 2010 - 2014 - Member of Board of Directors of Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade
• Acted as referee for the following peer-reviewed international journals: "The Astrophysical Journal", "New Astronomy Reviews", "Advances in Space Research", "Serbian Astronomical Journal"

Membership in scientific associations:

• International Astronomical Union (Division J Galaxies and Cosmology)
• European Astronomical Society
• Society of Astronomers of Serbia
• Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (SEENET-MTP)

Awards:

• 2012 - annual award of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade for scientific contribution
• 2005 - annual award of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade for scientific contribution of young researchers

Research interests:

• 2001 - gravitation, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology (gravitational lenses, supermassive black holes, active galaxies and quasars, modified gravity, dark matter)
• 1996 - 2001 - binary stars, celestial mechanics, Earth rotation, solar activity, numerical processing of astronomical observations

Publications:

Papers:

• More than 100 published papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings

Monograph:

• Jovanović, P., 2006. Uticaj gravitacionih sočiva na spektre kvazara, Biblioteka DISSERTATIO, Zadužbina Andrejević, Beograd, ISBN: 86-7244-591-0.

Book chapters:

• Jovanović, P., Popović, L. Č., 2009. X-ray Emission From Accretion Disks of AGN: Signatures of Supermassive Black Holes, chapter in the book "Black Holes and Galaxy Formation", 249-294, Eds. A. D. Wachter and R. J. Propst, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge NY, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60741-703-3.
• Borka, D., Jovanović, P., Borka Jovanović, V., Zakharov, A. F., 2015. S2 like Star Orbits near the Galactic Center in Rⁿ and Yukawa Gravity, chapter in the book "Advances in General Relativity Research", 343-362, Edited by Cameron Williams, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY, 11788 USA, ISBN: 978-1-63483-120-8.