Ph.D. Kosta Jovanović

Kosta Jovanović is Associate Professor at University of Belgrade - School of Electrical Engineering (ETF) and Head of ETF Robotics lab. He gained his PhD degree in Robotics in 2016 at ETF under supervision of prof. Veljko Potkonjak. His research interests are physical human-robot interaction and collaboration, control of variable stiffness actuators. As a principal investigator (PI) on behalf of ETF, he has already participated in 2 H2020 Innovation Actions in the field of industrial (DIH²) and medical robotics (DIH-HERO), and two cascading H2020 projects (I4MS initiative, project ReconCell). He participated in FP7 project ECCEROBOT. He was visiting researcher at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and DLR Institute on Robotics and Mechatronics. He won many awards (the best graduate student at the department, the best student paper at the University of Belgrade, Nikola Tesla junior achievement award, City of Belgrade Award, DAAD grant for research stay at DLR, etc.) ForNextCobot role: Kosta Jovanovic is a PI of project ForNextCobot.