Jelena Pesic
PhD Jelena Pešić
Research Associate
Laboratory for 2D materials
Room 146
Office phone: +381 11 3713148
Center for Solid State Physics and New Materials,
Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade,
Pregrevica 118, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Research field
Ab-initio calculations of layered and 2D materials
- Electronic, vibrational, mechanical and structural properties
- Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity in 2D and layered materials
- Strain effects in low-dimensional systems
Density Functional Theory: GPU application, HPC and High Troughput computation, automatization and machine learning methods for material science
2D material synthesis: graphene and 2D materials synthesis by mechanical exfoliation and characterization
Education
2013 – 2017 PhD Studies, Faculty of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics
Thesis: Investigation of Superconductivity in Graphene and Related Materials using Ab-Initio Methods; Supervisor: dr Radoš Gajić
2005 – 2013 Dipl/M.Sc. Physics, Faculty of Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Thesis: Application of GPU programming in Density Funtctional Theory calculations; Supervisor: dr Radoš Gajić
Employment
2018 – present Research Assistant Professor
2014 - 2018 Research Associate
2013 - 2014 Ph.D. student/ Research Assistant
Awards
The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities (JESH) programme - Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria - September - December 2021 -Research grant
Advanced Workshop on High-Performance & High-Throughput Materials Simulations using Quantum ESPRESSO, 16-27. Jan 2017, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship
School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First Principles, 19.-23. March 2018, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship
School Workshop on Crystal Structure Prediction: Exploring the Mendeleev Table as a Palette to Design New Materials 14. -18. January 2019, ICTP Trieste Italy - scholarship
National Projects
2020 - present The Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia: Promis grant number: 6062656 – “StrainedFeSC - Strain effects in iron chalcogenide superconductors”
2020-2021 The Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia: Proof of Concept - grant number: 5574 "Nano-reinforced wood for structural elements"
2013 – 2019 Project of Ministry of education, science and technological development of Republic of Serbia OI171005, "Physics of ordered nanostructures and new materials in photonics"
2014-2015 Innovation project of Ministry of education, science and technological development of Republic of Serbia, "Functional inks based on graphene and printing radio-frequent identificatiors (RFID)"
International scientific collaboration projects
Project leader/PI:
2018-2020 Bilateral exchange project with Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria, "Modelling and Measuring Phase transitions and Optical Properties for Perovskites, 451-03-02141/2017-09/31"
Researcher:
2015-2017 Bilateral project with China, University of Shanghai, "Crystal growth and peculiar physics of normal state of ReBCO crystals"
2016-2017 Bilateral project with University at Leoben, Austria, "Two dimensional materials as templates for the growth of organic semiconductors"
2013-2015 DAAD bilateral project 51-03-01858/2013-09/1 between Republic of Serbia and Germany
2015-2018 Project with Texas A&M University Qatar, NPRP 7-665-1-125 Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) project, "Intercalated Graphene: Effects of Substrates on Functionalities"
Skills
First principle calculations
Micromechanical exfoliation of 2D materials
Selected publications
- Pešić J. , Gajić R., Hingerl K. and Belić M., Strain-enhanced superconductivity in Li-doped graphene, EPL 108 67005 (2014)
- V Čelebonović, Pešić, R. Gajić, B Vasić, A Matković, Selected transport, vibrational, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional systems under strain, Journal of Applied Physics 125 (15), 154301 (2019)
- J Pešić, I Popov, A Šolajić, V Damljanović, K Hingerl, M Belić, R Gajić, Ab Initio Study of the Electronic, Vibrational, and Mechanical Properties of the Magnesium Diboride Monolayer, Condensed Matter 4 (2), 37 (2019)
- S Djurdjić-Mijin, A Šolajić, J Pešić, M Šćepanović, Y Liu, A Baum, Cedomir Petrovic, N Lazarević, ZV Popović, Lattice dynamics and phase transition in CrI3 single crystals, Physical Review B 98 (10), 104307, (2018)
- V Damljanovic, N Lazic, A Solajic, J Pesic, B Nikolic and M Damnjanovic Peculiar symmetry-protected electronic dispersions in two-dimensionalmaterials, (2020) J. Phys.: Condens. Matter in press https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/abaad1
Reviewing scientific journals
2022 Applied Nanoscience
2021 Annalen der Physik, Surface Science, Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter
2017 - 2019 Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
2016 Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A - A Journal of Physical Sciences
Teaching expirience and student advising
March 2020 – Erasmus+ teaching visit to Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria
2017 Participated in the master thesis of B.Sc.Andrijana Šolajić titled, Determining the Electron and Phonon Properties of Graphene Doped with Strontium and Iterbium by DFT Method
2017 – present Mentoring MSc. Andrijana Šolajić PhD Thesis