Sanja Damjanović (

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: Сања Дамјановић; born June 5, 1972) is a

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from

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and was

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in the

government of Montenegro The government of Montenegro (, Влада Црне Горе) is the executive branch of state authority in Montenegro. It is headed by the Prime Minister of Montenegro, prime minister. It consists of the prime minister, the deputy prime ministe ...

from 2016 until 2020.

Biography

Sanja Damjanović finished the extended school in 1991 and studied physics at the

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until 1995. Her

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was related to theoretical particle physics and

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. She did work as assistant teacher at the

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(UCG) from 1997 to 1998. Starting in 1999 she did her

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under supervision of recognized

Hans Joachim Specht (former

scientific Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

CEO of the German

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(GSI)) at the

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(RKU) in

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by searching ''"Electron-Pair Production in Pb-Au Collisions at 40 AGeV"'' within the Čerenkov Ring Electron Spectrometer (CERES/NA45-2)

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at the accelerator

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(SPS) at

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. She received her PhD in 2002 with

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. By 2003 she continued as a

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at CERN within a cooperation

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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

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ship'', after 2009 as ''scientific associate'' in different research programs as

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, in

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of high energetic

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collisions and in applied research for high

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fields created by high accelerated

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s. In 2007 Damjanović played a key role in initiating an international cooperation agreement between

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and CERN. Starting in 2014 she returned to

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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 The government of Montenegro (, Влада Црне Горе) is the executive branch of state authority in Montenegro. It is headed by the Prime Minister of Montenegro, prime minister. It consists of the prime minister, the deputy prime ministe ...

as a member of the

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(DPS) 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. From 2018 to 2021 Damjanović was the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Steering Committee of the SEEIIST Project, she is now working as board member of the SEEIIST Association.

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

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)
''South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies''
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