Bio
Srecko Stopic is a renowned expert in many fields, especially metallurgy and its processes.
Srecko Stopic was born April 3rd, 1965 in Uzice, Serbia, where he attended primary and secondary school. Graduating from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade in 1991, he would also go on there to complete his master work in 1994, his doctorate in 1997 and would become first an assistant and then docent professor. Awarded a Humboldt Stipend in 2001, he began to work at the Department of Process Metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University for the recycling of dyed metals and the engineering of metal, earning a PhD (habilitation) by publishing his treatise “The Synthesis of Metal Powders through Ultrasonic Dispersal”. He is an associate professor at the Technological Departments of the Universities of Zvornik and Cacak. Since 2023, he has been a guest professor at the University of the Ivory Coast for the subject “Hydrogen in Extractive Metallurgy”. For his contributions to metallurgy, he has been the recipient of numerous awards: in 2005 for Copper Metallurgy in Stolberg, Germany; in 2011 for Lead Metallurgy in Pribram, Czechia; and in 2012 for nanotechnology in Goslar, Germany. For his work with the Serbian diaspora he has been named one of Dusseldorf top-ten people. In 2022, he received recognition from the city of Uzice after publishing his book titled “Famous Professors Originating from the Area of Zlatibor” within the history archives of the City of Uzice.
He has published six books and over 200 papers in journals and in collected conference proceedings. He has been involved in ten bilateral projects for the Republic of Serbia. He has been named an expert of the Serbian diaspora community by the German Centre for Migration in Eaesbourne.
Currently, he is working on a European project on developing carbon-free technology able to obtain titanium from waste aluminum and titanium materials. He is also developing a master program for the German Ministry of Education and conducting research in Berlin connected with Green hydrogen and new technologies.