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Dr Nikola Kanas was born in 1989 in Kikinda, Serbia. He 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 has been employed as a post-doc in the same group in order to continue his research activities in the field of thermoelectrics. As a part of PhD and post-doc program, he was on the internship 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. Nikola is currently a senior researcher at BioSense Institute.

Besides the national scholarships and a few awards from abroad, Nikola was well ranked at PhD student speech contest as Norwegian representative. He is an active member of the international thermoelectric and ceramic society, reviewer of several journals and involved in organization of the scientific events.

Nikola’s research interests cover synthesis, processing, characterization, and application of materials for energy technologies.

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