Branko D. Kovačević (; born 29 June 1951) is a Serbian academic. He served as the rector of the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

from 2006 to 2012.

Education and career

He received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1975, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He is currently a full professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, teaching courses in control systems theory and its applications. He is the President of ETRAN Section for Automatic Control, the President of ETRAN Program committee, and the Editor in chief of the ''Journal of Automatic Control'' (published by the Belgrade University Press). In December 2006, he became rector of the

. He stayed on that position until September 2012, and later returned to his former dean office of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 2014, he was named the President of the Supervisory Board of

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(EPS).

Honours and awards

He was awarded: * The Engineers Prize of the Economic Council of Belgrade * The Dušan Mitosis Prize of the Yugoslav Society of Electrical Engineers (ETRAN) * The Branko Raković Prize of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering * The Outstanding Research Prize of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Electronics * The Teaching Prize of the University Students Council.

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External links

INTERVIEW: Dr. Branko Kovacevic, Rector of the University of Belgrade
1951 births Living people 21st-century Serbian engineers Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Rectors of the University of Belgrade University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering alumni {{serbia-academic-bio-stub