Sanja Damjanović (
Montenegrin Cyrillic:
Сања Дамјановић; born June 5, 1972) is a
physicist from
Montenegro and
minister of science in the
government of Montenegro since 2016.
Biography
Sanja Damjanović finished the extended school in 1991 and studied physics at the
University of Belgrade until 1995. Her
master was related to
theoretical particle physics
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and
gravitation
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. She did work as assistant teacher at the
University of Montenegro (UCG) from 1997 to 1998.
Starting in 1999 she did her
doctoral thesis under supervision of recognized
physicist Hans Joachim Specht (former
scientific CEO of the German
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI)) at the
Ruprecht-Karls-University
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(RKU) in
Heidelberg by searching ''"Electron-Pair Production in Pb-Au Collisions at 40 AGeV"'' within the Čerenkov Ring Electron Spectrometer (CERES/NA45-2)
experiment at the
accelerator Super Proton Synchrotron
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History
The SPS was de ...
(SPS) at
CERN
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,
Geneva. She received her PhD in 2002 with
Magna cum laude
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.
By 2003 she continued as a
Postdoc
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at CERN within a cooperation
treaty between RKU und GSI at the NA60 experiment, searching for "''prompt dimuon and charm production with proton and heavy ion beams''". In 2006 she continued with a ''CERN
Fellowship'', after 2009 as ''scientific associate'' in different research programs as
basic research, in
experimental physics
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of
high energetic atomic nucleus collisions and in applied research for high
radiation
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* ''electromagnetic radiation'', such as radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visi ...
fields created by high accelerated
particle beams. In 2007 Damjanović played a key role in initiating an international cooperation agreement between
Montenegro and CERN.
Starting in 2014 she returned to
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
for a position in a group working for radiation detection and diagnosis in the accelerator division of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and was delegated back to CERN in 2015. Damjanović has more than 100 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Damjanović was appointed as Minister of Science in the
Government of Montenegro as a member of the
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro in autumn 2016. Following an initiative by Montenegro in March 2017, she politically pushed the creation of the 'South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies'
SEEIIST from early 2017 onwards to reach its present status of an official joint project of 8 States of the region. The core of the SEEIIST Project is a state-of-the-art ‘Facility for Tumour Therapy and Biomedical Research with Protons and Heavier Ions’. The Project has just entered the Design Study Phase. As of 2018 Damjanović is the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Steering Committee of the SEEIIST Project.
References
External links
website of German ''GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research'', February 6, 2017
''Dr Sanja Damjanović - Minister of Science'' government of Montenegro
''Sanja Damjanović o CERN-u: Današnje mlade generacije su ključ budućnosti''Interview with Sanja Damjanović (in
Montenegrin language)
''South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies''SEEIIST
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1972 births
Living people
Montenegrin physicists
Women nuclear physicists
Politicians from Nikšić
Government ministers of Montenegro
People associated with CERN
Montenegrin women in politics
Women government ministers of Montenegro