Srđan Verbić () (born 1970,

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) is a Serbian physicist, educator and

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of Serbia (2014–2016).

Biography

He earned a degree in

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from 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 ...

. In 2001, he obtained a master’s degree with a thesis on artificial intelligence, and in 2014, he completed a Ph.D. with a dissertation on knowledge assessment tests, which he defended at his

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. He served as the head of the physics program at the Petnica Science Center and, since 2003, has been involved in the international PISA research project. Beginning in 2005, he worked with the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation in Serbia, initially as a coordinator and, from 2013 onward, as the director of its research center. He is the author of several school textbooks on physics and has initiated numerous science popularisation projects.On 27 April 2014, upon the recommendation of the

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, he was appointed

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in the government of

Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić, (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, Deputy Prim ...

. He held this position until 11 August 2016.

References

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