Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA, Serbia;Dr. Smilja Marković holds a permanent position as a Principal Research Fellow at ITS SASA, where she is engaged as a leader of the Group for the correlation of properties and functional characteristics of condensed matter. Dr. Marković is an expert in processing and characterization of metal oxide and perovskite materials, with focus on correlation of physical and physicochemical properties of semiconductor and dielectric materials with optical, electrical, electrochemical and other functional properties. During more than 25-years long professional career she participated in projects funded by The Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, several bilateral projects, and three COST actions. Dr. Marković acting as the leader of project “Water pollutants detection by ZnO-modified electrochemical sensors: From computational modeling via electrochemical testing to real system application - WaPoDe” supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (The Program PRISMA, #7377). Dr. Marković has published 117 research articles in international journals, with 2800 citation, and h-index 32. During the years she supervised 8 PhD students, more than 20 master students and act as an external examiner of 3 PhD thesis.

University of Belgrade, Serbia;Željko Mravik, born in 1993, received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade in 2016, 2017 and 2023, respectively. He is currently employed as a Research Associate at the Laboratory of Physics of the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia. His research is focused on energy storage applications of two-dimensional materials, particularly graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and their composites with inorganic additives. His work primarily involves the use of ion beams for tailoring material properties toward improved electrochemical supercapacitor performance.

University of Belgrade, Serbia;Dr. Zoran Jovanović, principal research fellow, graduated in 2007 and received his PhD in 2012, both from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade. Since 2007, he has been employed at the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to the interaction of accelerated ions with solids, the development of new carbon nanomaterials, pulsed laser deposition of thin films, hydrogen storage and production, energy materials, etc. He has actively contributed to obtaining about one million euros from national and international funding sources in his research areas. Dr. Zoran Jovanović’s current research focus is on understanding interactions between nanoobjects and how they contribute to new properties of nanocomposites. Part of the research work can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4852.