Research interests:

• Reconstruction of subduction-accretion complexes and ophiolite emplacement
• Geodynamic evolution of passive margins and fold and thrust belts
• Oblique strike-slip faults in indenter tectonics
• Regional geology of Neotethys, Alpine Tethys and Rheno-Hercynian Ocean

PhD project:

"Tethyan puzzle of the Balkan ophiolite belts: Alternative scenarios for the tectonic evolution and closure of the Mesozoic oceans in Western Serbia."

Description: The disappeared Mesozoic Tethyan oceans and their largely exposed ophiolite belts distributed across the Balkans are a puzzle that has been attempted to be solved for a century now. Although numerous reports, papers and geological maps have dealt with the largest ophiolite province in Europe, somehow the results of the research still fails to successfully explain a few fundamental questions: How many oceans exist in this nappe-stacked area, reconfigured by the late stages of Alpine orogeny? Why are the two principal belts (Vardar and Inner Dinaric Ophiolite belt) of the same Jurassic age but divided by a considerably large fragment of continental crust? What was the mechanism of the opening of the oceans and what was the time of their closure? For how long did they exist? Since their opening, what are the deformational phases affecting the ocean(s)?
The goal of the intended doctoral project will be to provide answers to these questions by using available field and laboratory methods. The research objectives will be focused on fieldwork collecting structural data from suitable geological formations for kinematic reconstruction, mapping oceanic domains with a focus on their relationship to adjoining units, collecting samples from Mesozoic sedimentary rocks for clastic material provenance studies, as well as mapping the difference between the Jurassic and late Cretaceous tectonic mélanges.

MSc Thesis (2020):

"Structural and lithostratigraphic characteristics of Mesozoic sediments in Pirot area"
(Supervisor: Marinko Toljić, University of Belgrade, Serbia)  

BSc Thesis (2018):

"Kinematics and geometry of Černa fault in Southern Carpathians"
(Supervisor: Marinko Toljić, University of Belgrade, Serbia)