We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the first MRS-Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering is Dr. Ivan Božović of Brookhaven National Laboratory (Condensed Matter and Materials Science, Upton, New York, USA). He is awarded for his achievements in the field of new quantum materials with a special emphasis on his seminal work in cuprates physics, artificial heteroepitaxial materials and interface superconductivity.
This is the decision of the MRS-Serbia Executive Board:
“The Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency, on their meeting on February 19, 2015, considered submitted candidates for the MRS-Serbia’s Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering and concluded that the procedure was conducted in accordance with the Awarding Rulebook, that the Call was announced on the MRS-Serbia’s website on January 1, 2015, and that in the stipulated period of 45 days only one candidacy was submitted, that for Dr. Ivan Bozovic, submitted by Prof. Dr. Davor Pavuna. This submission was supported by Prof. Dr. Laszlo Forro, Prof. Dr. Zoran Radović, Prof. Dr. Zoran Petrović, Prof. Dr. Velimir Radmilović and Prof. Dr. Dejan Raković. Having received the opinion from the Expert Committee Members, Prof. Dr. Robert Sinclair and Prof. Dr. Danilo Suvorov, the Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency took the decision that Dr. Ivan Božovic be granted the MRS-Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering.
President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskokovic
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Dr. Slobodan Milonjić
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Velimir Radmilović
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dejan Raković"
Dr. Bozovic’s invited plenary lecture will open the First Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Materials Research Society of Serbia Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2015, which will be held in a beautiful little place at the Adriatic coast, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, August 31 - September 4, 2015.
