Achievements • 21 H-index from Web of Science • 74 peer reviewed papers published • 18 invited talks at international conferences (11 on the work done in Ireland) • 121 contributed papers at conferences • About €400,000 in research funding (as sole PI) & additional €1,450,000 in collaboration with others (most recently in the Sep 2015 SFI PlasmaGrain project) • Over 450 citations (excluding self-citations) • 6 awards: Research fellowships in 1991 and 1992, University of Belgrade; Research award in 1997, German embassy in Belgrade; the Best Scientist in 2006, Astronomy Observatory Belgrade; Recipient - DAAD award Germany in 2005; DCU research award – Ireland in 2010. • 3 research projects in Serbia, 2 projects in Germany and 5 in Ireland Expertise • In plasma diagnostics for medical and environmental projects, which includes a high voltage DBD, low frequency and high gas flow plasma jets at atmospheric pressure. • Developing real-time plasma diagnostics for the treatment of microbiological samples based on the characterisation of a spectral emission. • Using actinometry in complex plasma chemistry for diagnostic purposes i.e. established a set of reliable molecular bands for a gas temperature measurement. • Studying the pressure broadening of atomic and ion spectral lines; investigated the boundary of local-thermodynamic equilibrium approximation in many types of plasma. • In vacuum UV spectroscopy and electron density measurements, as well as calculation of the transport coefficient for plasma. • Measuring the transition probability for noble gases using the method based on the relative line intensity ratio.

spectroscopy, real-time diagnostic,