Stefan Đorđević from Belgrade has graduated from two faculties, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Physics. He passed 84 exams and received a grade of 10 in all of them. At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, he was the student of the generation. The young man, who has achieved incredible success, did not stop there. He enrolled in a master’s program at the Faculty of Physics, which he also completed, and has now submitted his doctoral dissertation entitled: “PEYNDI CURVE IN 2D DILATONIC GRAVITY MODELS”and is awaiting its defense!
And he does not plan to stop there. As he told the MONDO portal, he wants to enroll in postdoctoral studies. He may complete them abroad, but what is certain is that he would return to Serbia afterward. He was born there, took his first steps there, said his first word there, achieved his first successes there… He sees his future there… He sees his prospects…
Stefan attended the “Ćirilo i Metodije” Elementary School in Belgrade’s Učiteljsko Naselje neighborhood. There, thanks to his teacher Selma Popović, he fell in love with physics. His love for the subject “brought” him two degrees and the success he has achieved. Before physics, he was passionate about mathematics.
“I fell in love with mathematics when I attended the Archimedes School for Young Mathematicians. I started there when I was in the third grade of elementary school. I finished elementary school as a top student and took part in numerous competitions at the municipal, district and national levels. In the sixth and seventh grades, I won third prize at the national physics competition, and in the eighth grade, I won first prize,” Stefan Đorđević, who worked as a young researcher at the Faculty of Physics, began his conversation with MONDO.
He points out that studying in elementary school was not difficult for him and that he had time for everything that interested him outside of his school obligations. “After finishing elementary school, I enrolled in the Mathematical Grammar School. I have to admit that the first semester of the first year was difficult for me. That was perhaps the most difficult period of my entire education. However, I was persistent in overcoming the difficulties I faced and I worked harder and harder. I realized that the more I worked, the better results I achieved, and I did not give up. Additional work always pays off; when you don’t do something well, do it again and the results will be better. Work is the most important thing,” our interviewee emphasized.
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As Stefan explained, he was offered the opportunity to enroll in the Mathematical Grammar School while he was in seventh grade, but he declined because he wanted to finish the elementary school he had already enrolled in. After eighth grade, he enrolled in the Mathematical Grammar School, which at the time had a special mentoring class considered the most difficult because it was intended for competitions and consisted of the best students.
Stefan also took part in various competitions during high school and graduated with straight A’s. During his schooling, he began thinking about what he wanted to study after high school. “In the third year of high school, I realized that I wanted to study physics. The time came to enroll in university, and my best friend Mihajlo Sporić and I made a plan to enroll in the Faculty of Physics and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. We planned to have a 10.0 average at the Faculty of Physics and around 9.6 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Mihajlo had previously applied to Cambridge and managed to get in, but he did not receive a scholarship. And so the two of us started studying at two faculties.
“We finished our first year in July, and then in August Mihajlo found out that he had cancer. In September, he went to Cambridge because he received a half scholarship after winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad. He is one of six people who have managed to do that. My best friend passed away when I was at the beginning of my fourth year of studies,” Stefan recounted, recalling painful moments from his life.
After graduating from both faculties, Stefan enrolled in a master’s program at the Faculty of Physics.
He had previously planned to complete his doctoral studies abroad. “During my first year of studies, I planned to go abroad for my master’s degree, but after my best friend passed away at the beginning of my fourth year, I realized that I did not want that. Then COVID began, and I decided that I would stay here for my master’s. After that, I planned to go abroad for my doctoral studies. However, I decided to stay in Serbia. The first reason was COVID, and then I realized that I did not like the Western world at all, given how it began to change during COVID. Honestly, I am against the West. It seems to me that morality in the West is seriously breaking down, and it seems to me that money is the only thing that guides people in life,” our interviewee said.
He noted that his education at the Mathematical Grammar School helped him complete two faculties with ease. As he explained, there were occasions when he took nine to 12 exams within eight days. Stefan is now employed at the Faculty of Physics as a young researcher. After completing his PhD, he plans to continue working in science in Serbia. He may go abroad for postdoctoral studies for six months or a year, but he will return to Serbia.
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Source: Mondo ; Foto:MONDO/Uroš Arsić
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