Dalibor Petrović

Dalibor Petrović graduated, master's and doctorate at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He is a full professor of sociology at the University of Belgrade, where he teaches at the Faculty of Traffic, Philosophy and Economics at all levels of study, as well as at the master's studies of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Arts. As an author and editor, he published three books and a large number of scientific papers in domestic and international periodicals. For his scientific achievements, he was awarded the Plaque of the Informatics Society of Serbia for the best scientific work in 2014 for the book Society in the Internet Age, as the first sociologist to receive this award. In addition, the same book won second place in the selection for the best sociological study in 2014, organized by the "Serbian Sociological Society". In the period from 2002 to 2004, he was the first coordinator of the newly established Republican Council for the Development of University Education (today's National Council for Higher Education), actively participating in the reform of higher education in Serbia. He is constantly engaged by the European Commission in the evaluation process of H2020 projects as an expert in the field of ethical evaluation of scientific research. He currently holds the position of editor-in-chief of the journal Sociologija, a position he has held since 2020, and is a member of the presidency of the Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia. He is one of the initiators, and later a formal founder and member of the Coordination Board of the Network of Academic Solidarity and Engagement - MASA.