PhD Jelena Pešić
Associate Research Professor

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 and characterization: 2D materials synthesis by mechanical exfoliation and characterization, dry transfer technique for heterostructure building, AFM/KPFM

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

Institute of Physics Belgrade            2013 - 2014      Ph.D. student/ Research Trainee

Institute of Physics Belgrade             2014 - 2018      Research Assistant

Institute of Physics Belgrade             2018 - 2023      Research Associate

Montanuniversität Leoben                2023 - 2024       PostDoctoral Researcher

Institute of Physics Belgrade             2023 -                  Research Associate Professor

2024-2026 - Bilateral exchange project with MontanUniversitaet, Leoben Austria 337-00-216/2023-05/258

2023-2025 - Multilateral Scientific And Technological Cooperation In The Danube Region: "Nonthermal Phase transitions in 2D Gallium Sulphide for Applications in Next-Generation Devices"

2023-2026 - Science Fund of Republic of Serbia – PRIZMA project “2D Material-based Tiled Network Films for Heritage Protection – 2DHeriPro”

2023-2024 - The Serbia Accelerating Innovation and Growth Entrepreneurship (SAIGE) Project at Institute of physics Belgrade – “Graphene-impregnated wood with increased biological resistance and durability”

2023-2025 - Bilateral exchange project with Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Slovenia “Synthesis and characterization of ternary Van der Waals MoxWx-1S2 nanotubes for advanced field emission application”

2020 -  2023    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)"

2020 - 2024        FWF START Prize "The invincible iron-talc: 2D magnetic layers"

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"

• Research of physics of layered and 2D materials using ab initio methods (electronic, vibrational, magnetic, mechanical, optical and structural properties, Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity in 2D and layered materials and strain effects in low-dimensional systems);
• Sample production and characterization (AFM, KPFM, Raman…) of 2D materials
• Dry transfer for 2D materials heterostrucutres production
• Advance computational methods in solid state physics: GPU application, HPC and High Throughput computation, automatization and machine learning methods for material science

Awards

•     2025  Institute of Physics Belgrade Annual Prize for 2025

1. Pešić, J., Leitner, S., Neilson, J. Stanković I.,  Khan M. Z., Tizić Matković D., Kelly A. G., Carey T.,  Coleman J. , Matković A.,  Imaging junctions in two-dimensional semiconductor nanosheet networks. npj 2D Mater Appl 9, 90 (2025).
2. T. Belojica, J. Blagojević, S. Djurdjić Mijin, A. Šolajić, J. Pešić, E. S. Bozin, B. Višić, Y. Liu, C. Petrovic, Z. V. Popović, R.Hackl, Ana M.  N. Lazarević  Phonon frequency comb close to an isolated Einstein mode in InSiTe3 . Scientific Reports, (2026).
3. Šolajić, A., and Pešić, J. Tailoring electronic and optical properties of hBN/InTe and hBN/GaTe heterostructures through biaxial strain engineering. Scientific Reports, 14(1) (2024).
4. JM Salchegger, R Adhikari, B Faina, J Pešić, A Bonanni Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in the Dirac semimetal PtSe2: Kondo effect and surface spin dynamics Physical Review B 110 (20), 205403 (2024).
5. Šolajić, A., and Pešić, J. Strain-induced modulation of electronic and optical properties in hBN/InSe heterostructure. Optical and Quantum Electronics, 56(7) (2024)
6. Djurdjić Mijin, A. Šolajić, J. Pešić, Y. Liu, C. Petrovic, M. Bockstedte, A. Bonanni, Z. V. Popović, and N. Lazarević “Spin-phonon interaction and short-range order in Mn3Si2Te6” Phys. Rev. B 107, 054309 (2023).