Professor Dejan Raković was born in 1951 in Belgrade, Serbia, where he completed primary and high school. In 1974 he graduated Engineering Physics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade as a first in his class. He completed his M.Sc. thesis in 1977 in the field of quantum theory of atomic many-electron correlations and his Ph.D. thesis in 1982 in the field of theoretical vibrational spectroscopy of conducting polymers, at the Physics Division of the Faculty of Science in Belgrade. During 1980/81 he completed postgraduate specialization in the group of Academician L. A. Gribov in Moscow, renown authority in theoretical spectroscopy and quantum chemistry of molecules, polymers, and crystals.

He got his positions of assistant in Materials Science from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade in 1977, assistant professor in 1985, associate professor in 1990, and full professor in 1997, where he has been teaching numerous courses related to materials science, biomaterials, biophysics, and quantum informatics, on undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and has (co-)authored over 10 textbooks from the university down to high-school levels. He was heading Department of Materials Science in several election periods, postgraduate Materials Science Curriculum since 1987, undergraduate Biomedical and Ecological Engineering Curriculum since 1996, and undergraduate Module of Physical Electronics since 2012.

Professor Rakovic has a wide scientific interest, broadly related to materials science and biophysics, covering the fields of nanomaterials and biomaterials, nanotechnology and spectroscopy, as well as biophysics and bioinformatics of biomolecular, psychosomatic, cognitive and electrophysiological functions.

Since 1997 professor Rakovic is being vice-president elect of the Yugoslav Materials Research Society, and guest co-editor of 10 volumes from YUCOMATs being published by Materials Science Forum, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, International Journal of Modern Physics B, and Acta Physica Polonica A. He is also a member of international editorial board of journals Informatica and Medical Data Review, and referee of the journalsPhysica Scripta,Nanosciences and Nanotechnology Letters,Foundations of Science, Connection Science, NeuroQuantology, EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics, IndianJournal of Biochemistry and Biophysics,International Journal of Radiation Biology, Digital, Signal Processing, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing,and Journal of Medical Systems, as well. During the period 1995-1998 he headed regional project Brain and Consciousness at the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) of the United Nations University for Peace in Belgrade and co-edited 5 books published by ECPD, while from 2009 he is heading the ECPD International School of Quantum-Informational Medicine, with (co-)authored ECPD thematic textbook. In 1999 he co-founded International Anti-Stress Center (IASC) in Belgrade, becoming president elect of the IASC Governing Board, with wide educational holistic anti-stress activities. In 2009 he also founded his Fund (DRF) for Holistic Research and Ecology of Consciousness, with wider promotive holistic activities including co-organization of Symposium of Quantum-Informational Medicine QIM 2011.

He has published about 250 scientific papers and communications and 40 books and proceedings, cited about 300 times in scientific periodicals and monographs.