Dragan D. MIHAILOVIĆ

Dragan Mihailovic is Head of the Department for Complex Matter at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Director of the CENN Nanocenter, and professor at the Univ. of Ljubljana and the JS International postgraduate school where he is head of the Nanoscience programme. His current interest is in mesoscopic metastable quantum states created through non-equilibrium processes. He has held two ERC grants (AdG, PoC) on ultrafast studies of symmetry- breaking transitions and ultrafast non-volatile memories, respectively. He has had significant achievements recognised in high-temperature superconductivity, molecular nanowires, and molecular magnetism. He has over 500 articles indexed by Google scholar, and over 9900 citations, with H=52. He is the author of more than 10 Nature and Science papers and multiple patents. His previous extensive collaborations include projects with the Nobel laureates K. Alex Muller and Alan J Heeger. He was educated at the University of Oxford (MSc, DPhil), and has won the Zois prize for outstanding achievements in science.

Tunnelling microscope for measurements of electronic relaxation of individual atoms in real time on a femtosecond timescale.

1958 Born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

1979 Degree in Physics, University of Oxford at Balliol College, UK

1983 DPhil: Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

1989–90 Fulbright fellow, UCSB, USA

1995 Visiting scientist, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford

2001 Founded the Department of Complex Matter at the Jožef Stefan Institute

2002 Full Professor, University of Ljubljana

2004 fouded Nanocenter

2013 ERC Advanced grant

2016 ERC proof of concept grant

Important Works

B. Narymbetov et al. (2000) Origin of ferromagnetic exchange interactions in a fullerene-organic compound, Nature 407:883.

M. Remškar et al. (2001) Self-assembly of subnanometer-diameter single-wall MoS2 nanotubes. Science 292:479.

L. Stojchevska et al. (20140 Ultrafast switching to a stable hidden quantum state in an electronic crystal. Science 344(6180):177.

Selected Awards

1986 Boris Kidrič award

1988 »Honorary member of the High Table«, Christ Church, Oxford, UK

1989 Fullbright Scholarship

2002 Zois prize for outstanding scientific achievements

2005 Leader of the best programme group in Physics in Slovenia

2012 The first researcher from Slovenia to be awarded the European Research Council Advanced Grant

2017 The first researcher from Slovenia to be awarded an ERC »Proof of concept« grant.