Dr. Ivan Djordjevic
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Office: N3-01C-10
50 Nanyang Avenue
Singapore 639798
email: idjordjevic@ntu.edu.sg
Biography
Dr Ivan Djordjevic earned his BSc in Applied Chemistry from the University of South Australia (UniSA) in 2002. After that he was employed as an analytical chemist at the Australian Water Quality Center where he was working with GC-MS analysis of organic pollutants in water. In 2006 he started his research work in development of biodegradable polyester elastomers based on citric acid for his PhD at the Ian Wark Research Institute (UniSA). Ivan was awarded with PhD in 2010 and soon after graduation he took a post at University of Belgrade as a Research Associate. In 2012 he moved to Malaysia where he was employed as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya. Apart from his full-time undergraduate teaching commitments, he supervised several PhD and MSc projects. His research work involved development of polymer composite tissue engineering scaffolds and biodegradable polymer coatings. Ivan was also involved in synthesis and processing of polyacrylate systems into coatings and microspheres for biosensor applications and dengue virus detection. In June 2015 Ivan started his post as a Senior Research Fellow in Professor Terry Steele's group at NTU.
Research Interests
Dr Ivan Djordjevic’s research work is focused on development of elastomeric biodegradable polymer systems for bioadhesion, tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. In particular, the major objective of his work is investigation of processes that occur at the interface between synthetic materials and biological systems such as tissue specific cells, stem cells, blood and living tissues.