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Dr. Nikola Kanas, born in 1989 in Kikinda (Serbia), took his PhD degree at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) as a member of Department of Materials Science and Engineering. After that, Nikola continued as a post-doc in the same research group, working in the field of thermoelectrics. As part of PhD and post-doc programs, he was on the internships at Leibniz University Hannover and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), respectively. Prior to his PhD study, he completed his bachelor and master studies at Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad and afterwards, he worked in industry as a process engineer. He is currently a senior researcher at BioSense Institute Novi Sad, Department of Sensor Technologies.
Besides the national scholarships and few awards taken from abroad, Nikola was well ranked at the European PhD student speech contest, as Norwegian representative. He is an active member of the International Thermoelectric Society and the European Ceramic Society. He is a reviewer of several highly-ranked journals and involved in organization of the scientific events. Nikola’s research interests cover synthesis, processing, characterization and application of ceramics for energy technologies (mostly thermoelectrics). He has published about 14 peer-reviewed scientific papers, reaching h-factor of 7.