Dragan Marinković, PhD, Full Professor Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Mechanik FG Strukturmechanik und Strukturberechnung  tel: - е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

PhD Dragan Marinković-Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mechanik, FG Strukturmechanik und Strukturberechnung

Place and date of birth. Niš, Serbia, 1st January 1976

Research field and areas:
- Research field: Technology and engineering sciences
- Research area: Structural analysis, FEM, Virtual Reality, Composite Materials, Active/Smart Structures 

Education: 
- 1994-1999 Diploma degree (equivalent to master) – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš, Course of mechanical constructions and mechanization, Diploma thesis: Calculation methods and dynamic analysis of transport machines supporting structures, average grade 10.
- 2003-2006 Ph.D. – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, Scientific field: Active structures, Thesis title: A new finite composite shell element for piezoelectric active structures. Ph.D. thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. Ulrich Gabbert.

Dates of appointments:
- 01/10/2000. Teaching assistant
- 2008-Present PhD, permanent lecturing and research position at TU Berlin.

Employment history:
- 2000-2003: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Niš
- 2006-2007: Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany,
- 2008-now: Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Mechanik, FG Strukturmechanik und Strukturberechnung.

List of selected publications:
- Marinković D., Rama G., Co-rotational shell element for numerical analysis of laminated piezoelectric composite structures, Composites Part B: Engineering, (Elsevier), vol. 125, pp. 144 - 156, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.05.061, (M21a)
- Nestorovic T., Marinković D., S. Shabadi, User defined finite element for modeling and analysis of active piezoelectric shell structures, Meccanica, (Springer), vol. 49, no. 8, pp. 1763 - 1774, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-014-9925-x, (M21)
- Marinković D., M. Zehn, Corotational finite element formulation for virtual-reality based surgery simulators, Physical Mesomechanics, (Springer), vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 18-25, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1029959918010034, (M21)
- Marinković D., M. Zehn, Consideration of stress stiffening and material reorientation in modal space based finite element solutions, Physical Mesomechanics, (Springer), vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 341-350, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1029959918040082 (M21)
- Marinković D., M. Zehn, Survey of Finite Element Method-Based Real-Time Simulations, Applied Sciences, 2019, 9(14), 2775; https://doi.org/10.3390/app9142775 (M22)

Project history: previous and present participation in national and international research grants and other significant projects:
- Robot development for inspection of sewer systems, Fraunhofer Institut, Magdeburg, 2002
- Dynamics and control of active structures, project financed by Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia 2002-2004.
- Theoretical and applied mechanics of the rigid and solid bodies. Mechanics of materials, project financed by Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia 2005-2008.
- Entwicklung eines flexiblen Virtual-Reality-Operations-Simulators zur Ausbildung und individuellen Operationsplanung beim Einsatz in der laparoskopischen Chirurgie und verwandten Fachgebieten, Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, 2006 –2007.
- Intelligent control of smart structures (ICOSS) – bilateral DAAD project, 2013-2014

Awards, prizes, etc.
- “Silver sign” of the University of Nis as the best graduate student in the school year (1999).
- Special award of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering as the best graduate student in the first 40 years of the existence of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (2000).
- Special award of VDI for extraordinary Ph.D. thesis (2007).
- “Best Presented Paper” prize at NAFEMS World Congress in Crete, Greece (2009).
- “Young Researcher Best Paper” prize at The 10th International Conference on Computational Structures
- Technology (CST), Valencia, Spain (2010).
- Scholarships from: Serbian Ministry of Science (1998-99), Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art (1999-2001), DAAD doctoral scholarship (2002-03), Saxony-Anhalt doctoral scholarship (2003-05).
- Plaque for significant contribution to the development of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Niš.

International scientific collaboration and mobility.
- 1998. Passa Quatro, Brazil, two-month professional practice,
- 2002. Dortmund, Germany, four-month German language course (DAAD Scholarship),
- 2002. Magdeburg, Germany, three months stay at Fraunhofer Institute (DAAD Scholarship),
- 2006. Magdeburg, Germany, six-month study stay at the Institute of Logistics, Otto-von-Guericke University in the framework of Tempus project.