Željko Tomović

Željko Tomović studied chemistry at the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, where he obtained his master's degree in 2000. He then moved to Germany for his PhD research in the synthetic chemistry lab of Prof. Klaus Müllen at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. In 2005, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on new discotic liquid crystals based on large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as materials for molecular electronics. In 2005-2006 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the group of Prof. Bert Meijer at TU/e, focusing on the synthesis and supramolecular organization of pi-conjugated systems. In 2006 he joined BASF where he worked on a variety of topics in the field of polyurethane and carbon-rich materials research. This resulted in many patents which were successfully translated into new products introduced to markets globally. Tomović was a guest researcher at the TU/e Meijer lab (2006-2008) and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Belgrade, Serbia (2013-2018). In June 2020 he joined TU/e as a full professor to start his group in Polymer Performance Materials.