We are pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2017 MRS-Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering is Prof. Dr Velimir Radmilović of Belgrade University, Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory USA, cor. member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA). He is awarded for his achievements in several areas of Material Science and Engineering, particularly in the fields of Physical Metallurgy, Phase Transformations, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Prof. Dr Velimir Radmilović (CV + bibliography)
This is the decision of the MRS-Serbia Executive Board:
“The Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency, at their meeting on March 28, 2017, considered the submitted candidates for the MRS-Serbia’s 2017 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, 2017, and that in the stipulated period of 45 days only one candidacy was submitted, that for Prof. Dr Velimir Radmilović, submitted by Prof. Dr. Robert Sinclair (Charles M. Pigott Professor at the Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, CA, USA), a long-term President of the International Advisory Board and a member of the Award Committee. The candidacy was strongly supported by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dahmen, a member of the International Advisory Board and the long-term director of the National Centre for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as Prof. Dr. Hamish Fraser (Ohio State University), as well as four Members of the Presidency of the MRS Serbia (Academician Zoran Popović, Academician Zoran Petrović, Prof. Dr. Vera Dondur and Prof. Dr. Milenko Plavšić).
Having received the opinion from the Expert Committee Members, Prof. Dragan Uskokovic, Prof. Robert Sinclair, Dr. Slobodan Milonjic, Prof. Danilo Suvorov, Prof. Dejan Rakovic, Prof. Dr. Ivan Bozovic, and Prof. Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novaković, the Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency took the decision that Prof. Dr Velimir Radmilović be granted the MRS-Serbia’s 2017 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering.
Prof. Dr Velimir Radmilović's invited plenary lecture entitled Atomistic Phenomena in Engineering Materials will open the First Plenary Session of the 19th Materials Research Society of Serbia Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2017 on September 4, 2017.
President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskoković
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Dr. Slobodan Milonjić
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dejan Raković"
