PHOTONICA 2023

Kai Shinbrough is a senior doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is advised by Virginia Lorenz, Elizabeth Goldschmidt, and Paul Kwiat. Shinbrough's recent work centers on photonic quantum memory -- a necessary primitive for quantum repeaters and photonic quantum processors -- based on atomic vapors, ion-doped solids, and cyclic free-space and fiber delay lines. His previous work focused on frequency-entanglement and photon pair state engineering in Raman scattering and four-wave mixing. Shinbrough is a two-time recipient of the NSF QISE-Net award, as well as several student grants from Optica and the American Physical Society.

Danijela Danilović was born on September 7th, 1992 in Uzice, Serbia. She is a research assistant in the Laboratory for Radiation Chemistry and Physics at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade. She obtained a bachelor's and master's degree at the Faculty of physical chemistry, University of Belgrade. Her scientific work mainly consists of developing new methods for the synthesis of hybrid nanoparticles that comprise noble metals and semiconductors, as well as polymer composites with hybrid nanoparticles. Since the investigation of the electronic structure of those materials is essential for further application of those nanosystems, Danijela performed photoelectron spectroscopy experiments at the Synchrotron SOLEIL as a collaborator on four research projects.

Milica Vinić is a member of the Laboratory for Plasma Spectroscopy and Lasers, Institute of Physics Belgrade. During her research as part of the B.S. and M.S. diploma thesis, her examinations were focused on methods for improving Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) analytical capabilities where laser-initiated fast discharge was suggested as an alternative to double pulse excitation. Studies in various surrounding atmospheres with and without the application of fast electric discharge were performed on different kinds of samples. During her research for PhD thesis, she worked on developing a procedure for the examination of oil composition with special attention to the determination of the amount of trace metals. She gained valuable insights in both plasma diagnostics, as well as in analytical chemistry and the application of LIBS for analytical purposes. Nowadays she works on applications of LIBS for different material composition studies of soil, oils, rocks, metals etc.

I am a postdoctoral research assistant in the Dipolar Quantum Gases group and my research focuses on many-body quantum phenomena in ultracold atomic gases with dipole-dipole interactions. Currently, I am a part of the effort to build a dual-species ultracold atom experiment with erbium and potassium with a goal of exploring roton physics, supersolidity, effects of long-range interactions on phase transitions and impurity and polaron physics. I have studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where I have earned a BA and MSci and I have recently completed a PhD in Physics also at University of Cambridge.

Milica Matijevic, PhD, earned her doctorate in Chemical Sciences from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Nis, Serbia in 2022. Since 2015, she has been working at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Currently, Dr. Matijevic is a Guest Scientist at the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Germany. Her scientific interests began with elemental analysis and PhD thesis focused on investigating the biocompatibility and light-driven effects of metal-oxide nanoparticles on cells. At the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Dr. Matijevic utilizes high-resolution microscope techniques, such as Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy, to monitor bioprocesses and assess the risk of plastic micro and nanoparticles to cells

Nikola Boskovic was born on 6.6.1986. in Pozega, Serbia, where he finished primary and high school. From 2005 to 2010, he studied microwave technique at the Department for Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, and in 2010 he graduated with an average grade of 81.10%. His Bachelor thesis was on the subject "Sources of electromagnetic radiation in electronics". In 2011, he finished Master studies at the same University, with an average grade of 95.70%. His master thesis was on the subject "Modelling of multi-layer microwave filters using WIPL-D AW modeler". In November, 2014, he started PhD studies in Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis. In the period from November 2011 to July 2012 he worked at the IMTEL-communications Ltd. Since August 2012 he is working at the Institute of Physics as a Research Assistant on III-045016 project named "Generation and characterization of nanophotonic functional structures in biomedicine and informatics" and TR-32052 project named "Wireless communication system with enhanced performances in microwave and millimeter wave frequency range", which are funded by the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. His primary research topic is related to: the research and development of frequency scanning antenna arrays with phase shifters based on metamaterials, and analysis and design of various passive shifters using split ring resonators; namely two of these shifters were implemented into scanning antenna arrays which were fabricated and tested. Moreover, he research new structures of radiation elements with a large impedance range. He is the first author of several papers, of which one is in M21 paper category and one is in M24 paper category. He was awarded two times for the best student paper at the conferences ETRAN 2013 and ETRAN 2015.

Dr Vladimir Rajic works as Research Associate in Department of atomic physics, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. B.Sc. in physical chemistry, M.Sc. in physical chemistry and Ph.D. in physical chemistry finished on Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade. Doctoral dissertation title was: "Crystal structure, optical and magnetic properties of Zn1-xFeyO(1-x+1.5y) (0.06 = y/(1-x) = 0.27) nanoparticles".

Katarina Djordjevic, PhD obtained at the Faculty of Physics in Belgrade in 2020. During the PhD study, she dealt with the development and application of artificial intelligence in solving the inverse problem in semiconductor photoacoustics. Since 2021 she has been employed at the Laboratory for Radiation Chemistry and Physics Gamma, Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, where she continued the development of photoacoustics in its application in the characterization of polymers, polymer composites, biomaterials, semiconductors and semiconductor heterostructures. In addition, she works on the development of artificial intelligence and its application in biomedical research and in processing and analyzing the results of optical, thermal and mechanical measurements on multifunctional materials. Her area of expertise is photoacoustic, photonic, artificial intelligence application in material characterization, supervised machine learning, and inverse problems solving in material science.