Ab-initio calculations of layered and 2D materials

• Electronic, vibrational, mechanical and structural properties
• Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity in 2D and layered materials
• Strain effects in low-dimensional systems

Density Functional Theory: GPU application, HPC and High Troughput computation, automatization and machine learning methods for material science

2D material synthesis: graphene and 2D materials synthesis by mechanical exfoliation and characterization

2013 – 2017  PhD Studies, Faculty of Physics,  Condensed Matter Physics

Thesis: Investigation of Superconductivity in Graphene and Related Materials using Ab-Initio Methods; Supervisor: dr Radoš Gajić

2005 – 2013  Dipl/M.Sc. Physics,  Faculty of Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Thesis: Application of GPU programming in Density Funtctional Theory calculations; Supervisor: dr Radoš Gajić

2018 – present  Research Assistant Professor

2014 - 2018         Research Associate

2013 - 2014         Ph.D. student/ Research Assistant

2020 -  present    The Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia: Promis grant number: 6062656 – “StrainedFeSC - Strain effects in iron chalcogenide superconductors”

2013 – 2019        Project of Ministry of education, science and technological development of Republic of Serbia OI171005, Physics of ordered nanostructures and new materials in photonics

2014-2015            Innovation project of Ministry of education, science and technological development of Republic   of Serbia, Functional inks based on graphene and printing radio-frequent identificatiors (RFID)

2015-2017           Bilateral project with China, University of Shanghai, Crystal growth and peculiar physics of  normal state of ReBCO crystals

2016-2017           Bilateral project with University at Leoben, Austria, Two dimensional materials as templates for the growth of organic semiconductors

2013-2015           DAAD bilateral project 51-03-01858/2013-09/1 between Republic of Serbia and Germany

2015-2018           Project with Texas A&M University Qatar,  NPRP 7-665-1-125 Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) project, Intercalated Graphene: Effects of Substrates on Functionalities

Project leader:

2018-2020           Bilateral exchange project with Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria, Modelling and Measuring Phase transitions and Optical Properties for Perovskites, 451-03-02141/2017-09/31

First principle calculations
Micromechanical exfoliation of 2D materials

• Advanced Workshop on High-Performance & High-Throughput Materials Simulations using Quantum ESPRESSO, 16-27. Jan 2017, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship
• School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First Principles, 19.-23. March 2018, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship
• School Workshop on Crystal Structure Prediction: Exploring the Mendeleev Table as a Palette to Design New Materials 14. -18. January 2019, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship

1. Pešić J. , Gajić R., Hingerl K. and Belić M., Strain-enhanced superconductivity in Li-doped graphene, EPL 108 67005 (2014)
2. V Čelebonović, Pešić, R. Gajić, B Vasić, A Matković, Selected transport, vibrational, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional systems under strain, Journal of Applied Physics 125 (15), 154301 (2019)
3. J Pešić, I Popov, A Šolajić, V Damljanović, K Hingerl, M Belić, R Gajić, Ab Initio Study of the Electronic, Vibrational, and Mechanical Properties of the Magnesium Diboride Monolayer, Condensed Matter 4 (2), 37 (2019)
4. S Djurdjić-Mijin, A Šolajić, J Pešić, M Šćepanović, Y Liu, A Baum, Cedomir Petrovic, N Lazarević, ZV Popović, Lattice dynamics and phase transition in CrI₃ single crystals, Physical Review B 98 (10), 104307, (2018)
5. V Damljanovic, N Lazic, A Solajic, J Pesic, B Nikolic and M Damnjanovic Peculiar symmetry-protected electronic dispersions in two-dimensionalmaterials, (2020) J. Phys.: Condens. Matter in press https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/abaad1

2016                   Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A - A Journal of Physical Sciences

2017 - 2019       Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids