Kosta Jovanović

Kosta Jovanović (born 1986, Čačak) is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (ETF). He completed primary school, the Čačak Grammar School and the Electrical and Computer Engineering programme at ETF as the best student of his generation. He defended his doctoral dissertation in robotics in 2016, and gained his early professional development in the field at SMS Siemag (2009), the Technical University of Munich (2010) and the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (2013), all in Germany. He is an alumnus of the DAAD and the Dr Zoran Đinđić Foundation.

Professor Jovanović is Head of the ETF Robotics Laboratory. To date he has led four Horizon Europe/2020 robotics projects and worked with Europe's leading research laboratories in the field (ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, DLR, Fraunhofer, TUM, Politecnico di Milano, DTI, VTT, etc.), as well as five EU innovation projects in cooperation with Serbian companies (Galeb, ABB, Servoteh, Ivamax, Vision Equipment, Concept Line, etc.) and two projects funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. His research interests are in human–robot collaboration and the use of robots and artificial intelligence in human-centred Industry 5.0. He has published in the world's most respected robotics journals (IEEE RAM, IEEE RAL, IJRR, Computers & Education, etc.). He is committed to giving engineering students hands-on experience of state-of-the-art technologies (at undergraduate level) and to international research collaboration (at postgraduate level).

He was Vice-Dean for Industry Cooperation at his faculty from 2018 to 2022. He has received numerous awards for scientific achievement at international conferences in Serbia, Germany and Italy, and from the American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia, the City of Belgrade, the Nikola Tesla Foundation and the University of Belgrade. He serves as a consultant on industry–academia cooperation and professional development programmes funded by GIZ and the EBRD. He coordinates ETF's activities with the MK Foundation on the Palace of Science project, one of the most significant private-sector investments in education in the region.