Sanja Damjanović

Sanja Damjanović (

minister of science in the government of Montenegro

from 2016 until 2020.

Biography

Sanja Damjanović finished the extended school in 1991 and studied physics at the

gravitation. She did work as assistant teacher at the University of Montenegro

(UCG) from 1997 to 1998.

Starting in 1999 she did her

magna cum laude

.

By 2003 she continued as a

high energetic atomic nucleus collisions and in applied research for high radiation fields created by high accelerated particle beams. In 2007 Damjanović played a key role in initiating an international cooperation agreement between Montenegro and CERN.^[1]

Starting in 2014 she returned to Darmstadt for a position in a group working for radiation detection and diagnosis in the accelerator division of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and was delegated back to CERN in 2015. Damjanović has more than 100 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings.^[2]

Damjanović was appointed as Minister of Science in the Government of Montenegro as a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro in autumn 2016. Following an initiative by Montenegro in March 2017, she politically pushed the creation of the 'South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies' (SEEIIST) from early 2017 onwards to reach its present status of an official joint project of 8 States of the region. The core of the SEEIIST Project is a state-of-the-art ‘Facility for Tumour Therapy and Biomedical Research with Protons and Heavier Ions’. The Project has just entered the Design Study Phase. From 2018 to 2021 Damjanović was the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Steering Committee of the SEEIIST Project, she is now working as board member of the SEEIIST Association.

References

^ GSI press news. "GSI researcher becomes Minister of Science of Montenegro". GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
^ Dr Sanja Damjanović - Minister of Science. "Biography on the official portal of the Government of Montenegro". Government of Montenegro. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

External links

GSI researcher becomes Minister of Science of Montenegro, website of German GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, February 6, 2017
Dr Sanja Damjanović - Minister of Science, government of Montenegro
Sanja Damjanović o CERN-u: Današnje mlade generacije su ključ budućnosti Interview with Sanja Damjanović (in Montenegrin language)
South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies SEEIIST

[1] GSI press news. "GSI researcher becomes Minister of Science of Montenegro". GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

[2] Dr Sanja Damjanović - Minister of Science. "Biography on the official portal of the Government of Montenegro". Government of Montenegro. Retrieved 7 February 2017.

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