Supervisor
Research Project
Title: Biomedical Device for Cancer Treatment
PI: Prof. Desmond Loke & Dr. Natasa Bajalovic
Biography
Nemanja Aksic comes from Serbia and he was born in 1995. He finished two faculties at the same time: School of Electrical Engineering and Faculty of Chemistry at University of Belgrade. After Bachelor’s degrees he got MSc in Chemistry. During the Master studies he was research scientist at Ellie company and he has been developing and researching various in vitro tests in veterinary medicine. Also, he is senior consultant at Petnica Science Center in Serbia (from 2015 to present), where he had a lot of experience with teaching and mentoring a high school’s students in chemistry. Nemanja is currently a PhD student (Science and Math) in Professor Desmond Loke’s group. Outside of research, he is interested in playing sports, games and guitar. Nemanja is a member of SUTD basketball team.
Education
- 2020 – Present
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Doctor of Philosophy – Science and Math Cluster - 2018 – 2019
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry, MSc in Chemistry (9.75/10.00) - 2014 – 2018
University of Belgrade – School of Electrical Engineering (module: Biomedical and Ecological Engineering), BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Computing (9.04/10.00)
University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry (module: Chemist), BSc in Chemistry (9.17/10.00)
Research Interests
- Electroporation
- Drug delivery
- Biophysics
- Molecular simulation
- Chemistry
- Cancer research
Awards
- SUTD President’s Graduate Fellowship PhD
Selected Publications
- Conference Paper
Preparation of polymer sorbents for selective sorption of cinnamate UV-filters, Milos P. Pesic, Nemanja N. Aksic, Tatjana Z. Verbic, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry, 56th Meeting of the Serbian Chemical Society - Bachelor Thesis in Chemistry
Study of UV Filter Binding for Molecule-Labeled Polymers - Bachelor Thesis in Electrical Engineering and Computing
Surface Modification of Composite Ion-Exchange Membranes by Silver Nanoparticles - Master Thesis in Chemistry
Application of progesterone bioconjugates for the determination of the gravity by the immunoassay based on the fluorescent polarization