[dr Ivana S. Veljkovic]

Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Njegoševa 12, Beograd
Department of Chemistry

Phone:   011-3336605

Phone (local):   605

Laboratory:   576

E-mail:   ivana@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal Web site:   http://sites.google.com/site/opstahemijavezbe/

Personal data

Born on February 21, 1989 in Belgrade, Serbia. Married. Speaks Serbian, English, German and Spanish language.

Education and qualifications

2008-2013: Basic academic (BSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2013-2014: Master academic (MSc) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2014-2019: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2015-2015: Graduate researcher / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

2016: Associate researcher / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

2020: Scientific associate / Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

  • Theoretical chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Coordination chemistry
  • Crystallography
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry

Awards and merits

October 20, 2014: Commendation for contribution to the development of the Faculty of Chemistry

2015: DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) research grant
Research stay at Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany (August 2015-August 2016)

Other activities

Member of Serbian Crystallographic Society.

Member of Serbian Chemical Society from 2014.

Member of DAAD Alumni from 2015.

Participation in research projects

Active projects:

Representative references

  1. Ivana S. Antonijević, Goran V. Janjić, Miloš K. Milčić, Snežana D. Zarić, Preferred Geometries and Energies of Sulfur-Sulfur Interactions in Crystal Structures, Cryst. Growth Des. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01058.
  2. Dušan P. Malenov, Ivana S. Antonijević, Snežana D. Zarić, Large Horizontal Displacements of Benzene-Benzene Stacking Interactions in Co-crystals, in book MULTI-COMPONENT CRYSTALS: SYNTHESIS, CONCEPTS, FUNCTION, De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany (2017); pp 255-271, ISBN: 978-3-11-046495-5. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/9783110464955-011.
  3. Jelena M. Andrić, Ivana S. Antonijević, Goran V. Janjić, Snežana D. Zarić, Influence of hydrogen bonds on edge-​to-​face interactions between pyridine molecules, J. Mol. Model. 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3570-y.
  4. Dušan P. Malenov,  Ivana S. Antonijević,  Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Stacking of Cyclopentadienyl Organometallic Sandwich and Half-Sandwich Compounds. Strong Interactions of Sandwiches at Large Offsets Cause their Dominance in Crystal Structures, CrystEngComm, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00597D.
  5. Ivana S. Antonijević, Dušan P. Malenov, Michael B. Hall, Snežana D. Zarić, Study of stacking interactions between two neutral tetrathiafulvalene molecules in Cambridge Structural Database crystal structures and by quantum chemical calculations, Acta Crystallographica B75 (2019) DOI: 10.1107/S2052520618015494.
  6. Ivana S. Veljković, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Gordana G. Sarić, Ivana M. Stanković, Snežana D. Zarić, What is the preferred geometry of sulfur–disulfide interactions?, CrystEngComm, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0CE00211A.
  7. Ivana S. Veljković, Danijela S. Kretić, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Geometrical and energetic characteristics of Se…Se interactions in crystal structures of organoselenium molecules, CrystEngComm, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1CE00129A.
  8. Danijela S. Kretić, Ivana S. Veljković, Aleksandra B. Đunović, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Chelate Coordination Compounds as a New Class of High-Energy Materials: The Case of Nitro-Bis(Acetylacetonato) Complexes, Molecules, 2021, DOI: 10.3390/molecules26185438.
  9. Ivana S. Veljković, Jelena I. Radovanović, Dušan Ž. Veljković, How aromatic system size affects the sensitivities of highly energetic molecules?, RSC Adv., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1RA06482G.
  10. Danijela S. Kretić, Ivana S. Veljković, Dušan Ž. Veljković, Tris(3-nitropentane-2,4-dionato-κ2 O,O′) Complexes as a New Type of Highly Energetic Materials: Theoretical and Experimental Considerations, Chemistry, 2023, DOI: 10.3390/chemistry5030126.  
  11. Danjela S. Kretić, Vesna B. Medaković, Ivana S. Veljković, Interplay between energy and geometry of parallel-displaced interactions in S8 dimer structures, Comput. Theor. Chem., 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2023.114381.