Dejan Zagorac received his doctorate in 2012 at the Faculty of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. He continued his post-doctoral studies at the Max-Plank Institute for Solid State Research (FKF) in Stuttgart, Germany, and in Theoretical Chemistry Department, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany. He currently serves as a Research Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science, Institute of Nuclear Sciences “Vinča“, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He also is the Head of the Laboratory for Theoretical Investigation of Materials  (L-TIM) at the Center for Synthesis, Processing, and Characterization for Application in Extreme Conditions (CEXTREME LAB), Belgrade, Serbia. His research mainly focuses on theoretical investigations of new materials, structure prediction of new compounds or new (meta) stable modification of existing materials, and theoretical investigation of the properties of the materials.