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Đorđe S. Čantrak is a Full Professor and Head of the Chair for Hydraulic Machinery and Energy Systems at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade (FME UB). He has graduated at the Department for hydropower engineering at FME UB, as the best student in generation in 2001. with average mark 9.79. He has defended his PhD thesis in 2012 at the FME UB. He was awarded for the best paper in the field of technical sciences at the UB for the school year 2000/2001. He is head of the Laboratory for turbulence and velocimetry, at Hydraulic Machinery and Energy Systems Department, FME UB. He has had fellowships from the University of Belgrade, Government of the Republic of Serbia and Kingdom of Norway embassy in Belgrade. He has been categorized as researcher of the first category by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development Republic of Serbia (Ministry) in the field of Technological Development since December 2010. Author is awarded with the Fulbright research scholarship for the academic year 2013/2014 in Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University USA and NASA Ames Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics (Senior Research Fellow, https://ctr.stanford.edu/former). He was researcher in twelve scientific projects of the Ministry and in ten international projects. He was Project leader in Serbia at the Bilateral Project with Germany (TU Clausthal, Institute of Applied Mechanics): "Computational and experimental investigation of the airflow in the human nasal cavity" in period 2016-2017 and the Bilateral project with University of Montenegro in period 2016-2018: "Investigation of the Influence of Turbulent Swirl Flow on Energy Parameters of the Axial Fans by Use of the Contemporary Measurement Techniques". He is in 2021-2022. project leader of the project: “Flow investigation within innovative designed regulative element of the control valve”, project between FME UB and company in Austria VLL Solutions, Vienna, funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. He is local network partner for UB CEEPUS III network: "Building Knowledge and Experience Exchange in CFD", CIII-RS-1012-07-2122 for 2021/2022 and also academic coordinator for two Erasmus+ mobility programs. He was leader for hydropower activities in project for Electric Power Industry of Serbia for period: 2013-2014. He has been employed at the Hydraulic machinery and energy systems department (HMESD) FME UB as the associate professor since December 2017., assistant professor since December 2012., and teaching and research assistant since February 2002. He teaches in the following subjects: „Measurements in Turbulent Flows“ at the Ph.D. level, „Fans and Compressors“ at the M.Sc. level, „Measurements in Hydropower Engineering“ at the M.Sc. level, „Basics of Flow Measurements“ at the B.Sc. level and etc. He is the Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the International Scientific Journal Thermal Science, published in December 2017. (http://thermalscience.vinca.rs/2017/supplement-3) - dedicated to the Turbulence Workshop, where he was executive Symposium chairman. He is Co-Editor of the Special Issue at the Journal Advances in Mechanical Engineering. He has earned research experience at the following institutions: 2000.- University of Rostock, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology, 2001.- Institute ACRC, Urbana-Champaign, 2003.- University of Stuttgart, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008.- EPFL, Lausanne, 2010.-University of Montenegro, FME, Laboratory for turbulent flows, 2011., 2012.- KIT, Institute of Fluid Machinery, 2014. - Stanford University, Center for Turbulence Research and NASA Ames Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics, 2016. and 2017. - TU Claustahl, Institute of Applied Mechanics. He has given a set of lectures in turbulence at the University of Granada in 2019 through Erasmus+ program. He was mentor for one PhD thesis, sixteen diploma and M.Sc. theses and thirteen B.Sc. theses. He was a member of 3 PhD theses committees (at University of Montenegro (UM), University of Novi Sad and UBFME) and 1 PhD committee in progress at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UB. Čantrak was an external expert referee for one PhD thesis at the University of Granada. He is author or co-author of 14 papers in international journals (SCI list), 2 editorials in the journals at the SCI list, seventeen papers in national journals, forty-eight papers at the international conferences, five at the national conferences and etc. He has one patent, ten technical solutions, ninety-three reports for industry and etc. He has given more than forty-one lectures at different universities and institutes. He is engaged as the technical expert for energy systems with hydraulic machines and technical evaluator in the field of pressure, velocimetry and volume flow calibration for the Accreditation Board of Serbia. He is married and has two kids. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-9187

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Hydraulic machinery and energy systems, fans, turbocompressors, turbulence, fluid flow measurements

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Djordje Cantrak is a head of the Department for Hydraulic Machinery and Energy Systems at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade (FME UB), Belgrade, Serbia. He has graduated as the best student in generation in 2001 at UB FME. He has defended his PhD thesis in 2012 at the FME UB. He teaches at the FME UB since 2002. He became Assist. Prof. in 2012, Assoc. Prof. in 2017 and Full Professor in 2022. He has been categorized as researcher of the first category by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development since 2010. He was Fulbright visiting scholar in Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University and NASA Ames Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics (https://ctr.stanford.edu/former). He was researcher in 12 scientific projects of the Ministry and on 10 international projects. He has 13 papers at the SCI list, 52 at conferences and 33 in WOS. He was leader in 4 scientific and 35 projects for industry. Some awards, grants and fellowships: 1. 1999-2000. – Scholarship of the University of Belgrade 2. 2000. – Fellowship of the Kingdom of Norway embassy in Belgrade 3. January–March 2000. – IAESTE (DAAD fellowship) 4. first place at Summer Academy at Ohrid 2000. (02.-13.09.2000.), the course ”Thermo-Fluid Dynamics”, organizers: Universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Augsburg, Deutschland. 5. On the occasion of the Day of the University of Belgrade 27.02.2002. two awards: а) the best student in generation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – average mark: 9.79 (nine and 79/100, where 5-fail, 10-top mark) b) best paper in the field of technical sciences at the University of Belgrade for the school year 2000/2001. 6. November 2001. – Fellowship of the Government of the Republic of Serbia 7. March 2002. –Certificate of appreciation in recognition of a substantial contribution to SAE World Congress ’02 8. October 2003.- January 2004. – Simlab Scholarship Program, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (http://www5.in.tum.de/forschung/simlab/daad_stip.html). 9. Nikola Tesla’s Gold medal for new technology: Fan for sustaining ecological conditions in tunnels, Innovations–Belgrade 2009., Number 087-09, 22. May 2009. 10. December 2010. – Categorized as researcher of the first category (T1) by the Ministry of science and Technological Development Republic of Serbia in the field of Technological Development. 11. October 2012. - Charter for permanent employment for ten years at the UB FME 12. October 2012. – Acknowledgement of the Accreditation Body of Serbia for successful cooperation and contribution to the development of an accreditation in Republic of Serbia. 13. Fulbright fellowship for the academic year 2013/2014. At the University of Stanford, Center for Turbulence Research and NASA Ames Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics. https://ctr.stanford.edu/former, https://www.cies.org/grantee/dorde-cantrak 14. November 7th-10th 2021 – Grant from the USA embassy in Budapest for the participation in the ELI ALPS (The Extreme Light Infrastructure – Attosecond Light Pulse Source), 8th User Workshop and “Superlaser for the Balkans” (roundtable discussion), in Szeged, Hungary, https://www.eli-alps.hu/en/News/view/66 15. October 2022. - Charter for permanent employment for twenty years at the UB FME