Dragan Damjanovic

Dragan Damjanovic is Professor at the Institute of Materials, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – EPFL. He received diploma in physics (BSc) from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Sarajevo (1980) and a PhD in Ceramics Science from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in 1987. He carried out postdoctoral work at the PSU (1988-1991) and moved to EPFL in 1991. He started at EPFL as a research associate, then was promoted to privat-docent, senior scientist and became Professor Titulaire in 2009. He has published over 240 scientific papers and has received several awards for his research including IEEE Robert E. Newnham Ferroelectrics Award, International Award of the Japanese Conference on Ferroelectric Materials and Their Applications and Ferroelectrics Recognition Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S). He was Distinguished Lecturer for the UFFC-S in 2010-2011, and is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the American Ceramics Society. He served as the Vice President for Ferroelectrics of the IEEE UFFC-S in the period 2015-2017. His current interests are focused on emergent electro-mechanical phenomena in oxide materials, low temperature properties of relaxor-ferroelectrics, symmetry breaking in oxides on different length scales and application of piezoelectric materials in transducers, sensors and actuators. He teaches bachelor, master and doctoral courses on properties and applications of dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.