Slavica Savić Ružić

Position:Principal research fellow

Academic Rank: Principal research fellow in the field of technical/technological sciences - material science

Dr. Slavica Savić Ružić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Center for Sensing Technologies of the BioSense Institute. She graduated from the Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, and earned her PhD in Materials in Electronics from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad in 2009. She has extensive experience in national and international projects, having coordinated a bilateral research project and one funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 2012, she was a visiting researcher (postdoc) at Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She previously led work packages in the IDEAS – Microlabaptasens project (2022–2025) and the Horizon 2020 Twinning project NANOFACTS (2021–2024). Currently, she leads work packages in projects funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia: PRISM – MULTISENSE (2023–2026) and the Horizon Europe project Know4Nano (2024–2027), where she also serves as co-coordinator.

Her research interests include materials science, advanced processing and characterization of ceramic materials, solid-state chemistry, and physics. She is currently focused on the synthesis and characterization of MOx and 2D materials for applications in gas sensing, such as breath analysis, as well as in (bio)sensors related to environmental monitoring and food safety. She is author and co-author of 56 scientific papers in high-impact journals, numerous conference papers, and one book chapter.

Center:

CST

Themes:

1. Metal oxide nanomaterials

2. Biosensors

Projects:

1. NANOFACTS – Networking Activities for Nanotechnology-Facilitated Cancer Theranostics

2. Iron reduction filtration unit for agriculture irrigation

3. Development of 3D-printing functional materials and magnetic components prototyping

4. MicoLabAptaSens- Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip platform for fast detection of pathogenic bacteria using novel electrochemical aptamer-based biosensors

5. MULTISENSE – A new approach for multiple gas sensing with high sensitivity and selectivity

6. Know4Nano

Publications:

1.Branimir Bajac, Slavica Savić Ružić, Marko Radović, Application of oxide- and carbon-based materials in remediation of arable soil, in: P. Putnik, D. Šojić Merkulov (Eds.), Environmental Remediation in Agri-Food Industry Using Nanotechnology and Sustainable Strategies, 1^st Edition, Academic Press (Elsevier), 2025, Chapter 14, ISBN: 978-0-443-13298-8; eBook ISBN: 978-0-443-13299-5.

2.Katarina Vojisavljević, Slavica M. Savić, Milica Počuča-Nešić, Aden Hodžić, Manfred Kriechbaum, Vesna Ribić, Aleksander Rečnik, Jelena Vukašinović, Goran Branković,Veljko Djokić, KIT-5-Assisted Synthesis of Mesoporous SnO₂for High-Performance Humidity Sensors with a Swift Response/Recovery Speed, Molecules 2023, 28(4), 1754.

3.Aleksandar Malešević, Aleksandar Radojković, Milan Žunić, Slavica M. Savić, Sanja Perać, Zorica Branković, Goran Branković, Electrical and sensing properties of indium-doped barium cerate, Ceramics International 2023, 49, 10, pp 15673-15679.

4.Perać, S. M. Savić, Z. Branković, S. Bernik, A. Radojković, S. Kojić, D. Vasiljević, G. Branković, Microstructural, thermoelectric and mechanical properties of Cu,
substituted NaCo₂O₄, Materials 2022, 15, 4470.

5.Dragica V. Bulajić, Jovana Drljača, Ivan Čapo, Slavica M. Savić, Katarina Vojisavljević, Aden Hodžić,Slobodan Sekulić, Branislav V. Bajkin, Biocompatibility of mesoporous SBA-16/hydroxyapatite nanocomposite and dentin demineralized particles on human dental pulp stem cells, Microsc Res Tech. 2022 ;85:1557–1567.