SCL's researcher Miljan Dašić won an annual award for best PhD theses with applications in industry for the 2018/19 academic school year, awarded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia.  The ceremony was held in the seat of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia in Belgrade, on Thursday 23rd December 2021. M. Dašić's PhD thesis entitled

Modeling the Behaviour of Confined Dipolar and Ionic Systems (link)

was done at SCL under the mentorship of Dr Igor Stanković, in the research area of computational nanotribology. The main contributions include determining connections and consequences between structure and behaviour in classical systems of nanoparticles and molecules with long-range interactions.

This thesis was one of the 11 selected PhD theses for the award that recognizes novel solutions and significant contributions to industry, science, society and economy. However, due to the epidemic-related restrictions, this year the award was given for the best theses defended in the past two academic school years.  A total number of 37 PhD theses, that came from 23 different faculties and 6 universities of the Republic of Serbia, was considered for the award.