Current fields of interest: • Investigation of physical and chemical phenomena associated with deposition, modification, and characterization of bimetallic thin films. • The physics of solid-state materials under extreme conditions and laser–plasma interactions in general. • Surface modification of thin films with conventional thermal annealing, short-pulse laser beams, and ion implementation, on the micro- and nanometer level. • National project • Project leader Bilateral project Serbia–Croatia: Synthesis and modification of titanium-based nanocomposite materials by ion and laser beam, 2011–2013 • Sub-project leader „Laser synthesis and modification of nano-composite, metal and semiconductor materials" in project III 45016 funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development of the Republic of Serbia, Serbia, 2011–2015 • Member of 5 national, 10 bilateral, and 4 COST projects (in the past and present). Other activities: • Secretary of the Serbia Optical Society; • Member of organizing/scientific committees of three international conferences; • Participation in the popularization of science in Serbia: manifestation "Otvorena vrata", Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia; • Supervision of four Ph.Ds., one master's, and co-supervision of one Ph.D.; • Editor of a book of abstracts, Photonica 2015; • Editorial Board Member of „International Journal of Advanced Materials Research“; • Published 69 papers in refereed journals.