Ivanka Popović
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ivanka Popović
| image = Ivanka_Popovic.jpg
| caption = Ivanka Popović in 2015
| office = Rector of the University of Belgrade
| term_start = 1 October 2018
| term_end = 1 October 2021
| predecessor = Vladimir Bumbaširević
| successor = Vladan Đokić
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1959}}
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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| death_place =
| spouse =
| children =
| education = University of Belgrade (MD, PhD)
University of Maryland (BD)
| module =
| native_name_lang = sr
| native_name = Иванка Поповић
| alma_mater = University of Belgrade
| honorific_suffix =
| honorific_prefix = PhD
}}
Ivanka Popović ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Иванка Поповић}}; born 1959) is a Serbian professor and the former rector of the University of Belgrade from 2018 to 2021.{{Cite web|title=Ivanka Popović: Rektorka - Ljudi - Dnevni list Danas|url=https://www.danas.rs/ljudi/ivanka-popovic-rektorka/|access-date=2021-01-21|website=www.danas.rs|date=18 May 2018 |language=sr-RS}} She authored and co-authored more than 85 scientific documents.{{Cite web|title=Проф. др Иванка Поповић, ректорка Универзитета у Београду добитница Награде за изузетност Хемофарм фондације|url=http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/468137/Prof-dr-Ivanka-Popovic-rektorka-Univerziteta-u-Beogradu-dobitnica-Nagrade-za-izuzetnost-Hemofarm-fondacije|access-date=2021-01-21|website=Politika Online}}
Biography
She was born in Rio de Janeiro to a prominent family, her father was Yugoslav ambassador and diplomat and her grandfather was Daka Popović, a member of the {{Interlanguage link|Senate of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia|sr|Сенат Краљевине Југославије|WD=}}. She studied chemical engineering at the University of Maryland, she finished her studies at Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade, where she earned her doctorate.{{Cite web|title=Ivanka Popović|url=https://www.istinomer.rs/akter/ivanka-popovic/|access-date=2021-01-21|website=Istinomer|language=sr-RS}} She became a professor at the University of Belgrade in 2001.{{Cite web|last=Рачунски центар, Електротехнички факултет, Универзитет у Београду|title=prof. dr Ivanka Popović {{!}} TMF|url=http://www.tmf.bg.ac.rs/sr-lat/fis/zaposlen/210#gsc.tab=0|access-date=2021-01-21|website=www.tmf.bg.ac.rs|language=sr-lat}} She was chosen for rector of the University of Belgrade in May 2018, and she was sworn in same year on October 1.
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
Category:Academics from Rio de Janeiro (city)
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