Nemanja Martinović

Nemanja Martinović was born in Belgrade in 1982. He holds a doctorate in astrophysics, on the evolution of dwarf galaxies in low-mass galaxy clusters. He worked at the Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade from 2011, first as a research trainee and then as a research associate. Since 2019 he has worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). Since 2015 he has worked as a DevOps engineer at ITekako, and since 2022 as operations manager and DevOps architect. From 2020 to 2022 he was employed as a DevOps engineer – NASA ADS at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of several scientific papers published in leading journals.

Nemanja Martinović was President of the Society of Astronomers of Serbia from 2017 to 2019. At Petnica Science Centre he was a junior and then a senior associate on the astronomy programme, and later a member of the programme committee. Since 2023 he has served as President of the Assembly of Petnica Science Centre. He has given a great many lectures on the astronomy and technical-sciences programmes and at the summer science school, and has been active in promoting science. He has been active at Petnica for twenty years.