Biography - Lazar Radenković

Lazar Radenković was born in 1989 in Niš. He completed elementary school and high school (Class for students with special abilities in physics) in Niš with the highest average grade, receiving over 30 awards in official mathematics and physics competitions, the award for the Student of the generation in primary school, and the Vuk's diploma in elementary school and high school.

He completed his undergraduate and master's studies in physics at the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics in Niš with an average grade of 9.69 (10.00 being maximum average grade) for the undergraduate studies (180 ECTS) and 9.96 for the master's studies (General Physics module, completed 133 ECTS). He defended his master's thesis titled "Conceptual Tests in Mechanics Teaching" with a grade of 10 in 2014, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Ljubiša Nešić.

During his education, he was a recipient of several scholarships, including the Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth for a period of 7 years, Dositej's scholarship, and the scholarship of the city of Niš.

He achieved an average grade of 9.92 (180 ECTS) in his doctoral studies in physics. He defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Teaching introductory mechanics course for high-school and university students – experience and improvement suggestions" on February 5, 2021, at the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics in Niš, under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Ljubiša Nešić.

He possesses a B2 level certificate in English.

Since 2015, he has been employed as an assistant at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš. Since 2021, he has held the title of assistant with a Ph.D. During this period, he has been involved in teaching exercises for the following courses:

• Mechanics (accredited in 2014, 2021)
• Theoretical Mechanics (accredited in 2014)
• Teaching Aids in Physics (accredited in 2014)
• Teaching Aids in Physics 1 and 2 (accredited in 2021)
• Physics in School (accredited in 2014)
• Physics in School 1 and 2 (accredited in 2021)
• Programming Packages in Physics (accredited in 2021)

In addition, from 2015 to 2018, he was teaching physics at the Bora Stanković Gymnasium in Niš to gifted students in the computer science gymnasium and the bilingual English-Serbian class. Since 2020, he is teaching physics at the Svetozar Marković Gymnasium in Niš to the students with special abilities in physics.

He has participated in various science popularization events as an implementer and/or organizer, including the European Researchers' Night, "Science Is Not a Boo", FizNiš, Spring Physics School at the Regional Center in Niš, and others. He has given a series of popular science lectures and represented the Department of Physics at various professional orientation gatherings.

Since 2018, he has participated in the project "Geometry and Topology of Manifolds, Classical Mechanics, and Integrable Dynamical Systems" (OI174020) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development. He has continuously been involved in research at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš (last registration number 451-03-47/2023-01/200124).

He has participated in several international conferences in Serbia, Slovenia, and Macedonia as an invited speaker, lecturer, and workshop facilitator. He has also been involved in conference organization, project writing and implementation, and served on physics competition committees for high school students for eight years. He served as the secretary of the Department of Physics twice and from 2015 to 2017, he held the position of secretary of the journal "Physics Teaching." He has been a member of the Society of Physicists Niš since 2015.

He has published two papers of category M23, one of which was included in the list of the 20 most interesting papers in 2018 for the European Journal of Physics. In addition, he has published four M30 papers, one M51 paper, and over ten M63 papers. He is a co-author of two textbooks for high school physics teachers.