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Dragan Damjanovic Named UFFC-S Incoming President-Elect

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Dragan Damjanovic has been named the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) President-Elect. As President-Elect, Damjanovic will serve a two-year term from 1 January 1 2022 to 31 December 2023. Following this term, Damjanovic will become President of the society, serving a two-year term from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2025. 

Dragan Damjanovic Bio
Dragan Damjanovic is a professor at the Institute of Materials, School of Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He received a BSc degree in Physics (summa cum laude) in 1980 from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science (Philips Fellowship) in 1987 from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His Ph.D. thesis was on materials with large piezoelectric anisotropy for ultrasonic transducers. After a subsequent postdoctoral stay at PennState, Dragan moved to Switzerland in 1991 where he has been living and working since.
Dragan heads the Group for Ferroelectrics and Functional Oxides at EPFL and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. The research activities include fundamental and applied investigations of piezoelectric, ferroelectric, and dielectric properties of crystals, ceramics, and thin films and their applications. In his research, he covers a wide range of spatial (atomic to macroscopic) and time (mHz to GHz) scales. Dragan has led or participated in about 40 national, multinational, and bilateral international projects funded by the Swiss, European, USA, and Japanese funding agencies and industries. He has been a consultant on materials for piezoelectric actuators, sensors, and transducers for companies from France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, and Switzerland. Dragan has received several international awards for his research, most recently the German Humboldt Research Award (2021-2023), which gives him an opportunity to do research in Germany in the next three years. He also received the International Award of the Japanese Conference on Ferroelectric Materials and Their Applications (2017) and the Outstanding Achievement Award by the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (2007). He has given over 110 invited and plenary talks at various technical conferences and has published over 260 articles, with a Google scholar H-factor of 76.
Dragan has extensive experience in the UFFC Society. He has been active in the UFFC-S since the Ferroelectrics community and the International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF) joined the Ultrasonics and Sonics Group in 1985. As a Ph.D. student, he participated in the ISAF and Ultrasonics Conferences and became a UFFC-S member in the late 1990s. Dragan became IEEE Fellow in 2009 and was a member of the UFFC-S Administrative Committee for five years. He was Vice President for Ferroelectrics for three years and a member of the Ferroelectrics Standing Committee for 15 years. He served as the General Program Chair or Co-chair for four IEEE ISAF conferences, most recently in 2019. For his service to the UFFC-S and the Ferroelectrics community he has been awarded the IEEE Distinguished Service Award and has served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Dragan was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on UFFC in the past 15 years. In addition to the ISAF, he has presented his work at the Ultrasonics and Frequency Control Symposia and at the International Symposium on Electrets of the IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society.
He serves in the advisory boards of the European Meeting on Ferroelectrics, European Conference on Application of Polar Dielectrics, Asian Electroceramics Conference, and European Electroceramics Conference, all of which have held joint conferences with the IEEE ISAF. Dragan has served or is presently a member of the evaluation and audit boards for institutions in France (Lyon, Bordeaux) and Czech Republic (Liberec) and is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society since 2018. In addition to the IEEE Transactions on UFFC, Dragan has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Electroceramics and has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society since 2005.