Dr Dušan Mrđa

Dr Dušan Mrđa (Bihać, 1977) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad (in the field of nuclear physics). He graduated from the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad in 2001 at the Department of Physics, majoring in physics. He enrolled in postgraduate studies, majoring in nuclear physics, in 2001, defended his master’s thesis in 2004, and his doctoral dissertation in 2007. In 2002, he attended professional training at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. He was elected Assistant Professor in 2007, Associate Professor in 2012, and Full Professor in 2017. He is the winner of the “Dr. Zoran Đinđić” award for exceptional results in the field of science and research for 2009.

From 2006 to 2009, he participated in the ILIAS project (Integrated Large Infrastructures for Astroparticle Science – 6th Framework Program (FP6)), as well as the manager of the project “Development and application of low-frequency alpha, beta spectroscopy for investigating radionuclides in nature” co-financed by of the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development in the period 2011-2014.

He participated in three projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, as well as two projects within the Program of Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and Hungary (Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad – Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest).

He was also the manager of two projects: VoBaNISTA and ELECTRA within the Interreg-IPA cross-border cooperation program Hungary-Serbia.

He is the head of the accredited Laboratory for testing the radioactivity of samples and doses of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. From 2015-2018 he was a member of the Expert Council for Sciences and Mathematics of the Senate of the University of Novi Sad. In the two periods, 2018-2021 and 2021-2024,  he was the director of the  Department of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences. He was a member of the executive board of the Radiation Protection Society of Serbia and Montenegro. He is the president of the Astronomical Association ADNOS, Novi Sad.

He was the co-organizer of two scientific international meetings in the field of prompt emission of gamma radiation during fission (GAMMA-1, GAMMA-2) under the auspices of the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements from Belgium (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements), as well as a reviewer in several international scientific journals. He participated in the organization of the “Danube School on Instrumentation in Elementary Particle & Nuclear Physics”, as the joint endeavour of CERN, ECFA, ICFA and the University of Novi Sad in 2014.

He is the co-author of about 100 papers from the SCI list, with about 930 citations, and the h-index is 17 (source SCOPUS), as well as 2 university textbooks. The field of his research is gamma spectrometry, interaction of radiation with matter, analysis of bremsstrahlung radiation, examination of the characteristics of cosmic radiation, rare nuclear processes, Monte-Carlo simulations.