1999.     Ph.D. in physics. Thesis: Vortex filaments induced on metals by using nanosecond laser pulses (in croatian). 

1996.     M.Sc. in physics.Thesis: Surface effects induced on metals by using nanosecond laser pulses (in croatian). 
 Research Assistant in LISP Laboratory at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

1992.     B.Sc. in physics. 
 Graduate Assistant in LISP Laboratory at Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Graduate study in Physics and Informatics;
Numerical methods and excercises: (Fortran and C) (2006)
 Literature: Numerical Recipes in Fortran (C).
User interface (2007 - 2010)

1. S. Lugomer, A. Maksimović, G. Peto, A. Karacs, A. Frenkel:
   Fluid Flow Instability and Microstructure Evolution in the Inclined Laser Processing of Metal Surface Comprising Impurities. 
   International journal of pure and applied mathematics. 49 (2008) , 1; 37-44 
2. A. Maksimović, S. Lugomer, Z. Geretovszky, T. Szorenyi:
   Laser-Induced Convection Nanostructures on SiON/Si Interface.
   Journal of Applied Physics. 104 (2008) , 12; 124905-124910
3. S. Lugomer, A. Maksimović, A. Karacs and A. Toth:
   Nanostructuring of a Silicon Surface by Laser Redeposition of Si Vapor.
   Journal of Applied Physics. 106 (2009) , 11; 114308-1-114308-14
4. S. Lugomer, A. Maksimović, A. Karacs,G.Peto:
   Spontaneous evolution of nanotips on silicon surface below the laser ablation threshold.
   Applied surface science. 257 (2011) ; 7851-7855

Original scientific paper

• Gašparić, Vlatko ; Ristić, Davor ; Mayerhöfer, Thomas G. ; Baran, Nikola ; Gebavi, Hrvoje ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Ivanda, Mile | Photonic nanojet of a Gaussian beam illuminated low refractive index microsphere in air: A comprehensive variation of parameters // Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer, 282 (2022), 108121, 12. doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2022.108121

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• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Puška, Adis ; Šakić Bobić, Branka ; Grgić, Zoran | A model for supporting the decision of plum variety selection based on fuzzy logic // Journal of Central European Agriculture, 22 (2021), 2; 450-461. doi: 10.5513/jcea01/22.2.2946

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• Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta ; Đuroković, Marija ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Combining Raman spectroscopy, DFT calculations and atomic force microscopy in the study of clinker materials // Materials, 14 (2021), 13; 3648, 14. doi: 10.3390/ma14133648

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• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Valencic, Lynne Ann ; Lehtola, Susi | Sulfur molecules in space by X-rays: a computational study // ACS earth and space chemistry, 5 (2021), 3; 436-448. doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00238

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• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Valencic, Lynne | Tetrahedral hydrocarbon nanoparticles in space: X-ray spectra // Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476 (2018), 4; 5358-5364. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty607

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• Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta ; Vrankić, Martina ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mandić, Vilko | Influence of titanium doping on the Raman spectra of nanocrystalline ZnAl2O4 // Journal of alloys and compounds, 697 (2017), 90-95. doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.12.116

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• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mohaček-Grošev, Vlasta | Missing Fe: hydrogenated iron nanoparticles // Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 466 (2017), 1; L14-L18. doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw226

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• Mikac, Lara ; Ivanda, Mile ; Gotić, Marijan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Trusso, Sebastiano ; D’Andrea, Cristiano ; Foti, Antonino ; Irrera, Alessia ; Fazio, Barbara ; Gucciardi, Pietro Giuseppe | Metal nanoparticles deposited on porous silicon templates as novel substrates for SERS // Croatica chemica acta, 88 (2015), 4; 437-444. doi: 10.5562/cca2769

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• Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta ; Šoštarić, Vladimir ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Raman spectroscopic evidence of low temperature stability of D, L-glycolic and L-(+)-lactic acid crystals // Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy, 140 (2015), 35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2014.12.048

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• Hanžić, Nikolina ; Jurkin, Tanja ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Gotić, Marijan | The synthesis of gold nanoparticles by a citrate-radiolytical method // Radiation physics and chemistry (1993), 106 (2015), 77-82. doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2014.07.006

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• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta | Do cement nanoparticles exist in space? // Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442 (2014), 2; 1319-1325. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu869

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Geretovszky, Zsolt ; Szörényi, Tamas | Nonlinear Waves Generated on Liquid Silicon Layer by Femtosecond Laser Pulses // Applied surface science, 285B (2013), 588-599. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2013.08.098

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Zolnai, Zsolt ; Toth, Attila ; Barsony, Istvan ; Maksimovic, Aleksandar ; Nagy, Norbert | Reorganization of Langmuir-Blodgett Layers of Silica Nanoparticles Induced by the Low Energy, High Fluence Ion Irradiation // Thin solid films, 520 (2012), 11; 4046-4056. doi: 10.1016/j.tsf.2012.01.043

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Farkas, Branimir ; Geretovszky, Z ; Szörényi, T. ; Tóth , A. L. ; Zolnai, Z. ; Bársony, I. | Multipulse Irradiation of Silicon by Femtosecond Laser Pulses : Variation of Surface Morphology // Applied surface science, 258 (2011), 8; 3589-3597. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.11.121

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• Ćejvanović, Ferhat ; Grgić, Zoran ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Bićanić, Danijela | Assumptions of economic model for sustainable productions of beekeeping in the Bosnia and Herzegovina // Journal of agricultural science (Libertyville, Ill.), 5 (2011), 4; 481-485

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Karacs, Albert ; Peto, Gabor | Spontaneous evolution of nanotips on silicon surface below the laser ablation threshold // Applied surface science, 257 (2011), 17; 7851-7855. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2011.04.045

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Karacs, Albert ; Toth, Atilla | Nanostructuring of a Silicon Surface by Laser Redeposition of Si Vapor // Journal of applied physics, 106 (2009), 11; 114308, 14. doi: 10.1063/1.3266003

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• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Lugomer, Stjepan ; Geretovszky, Zsolt ; Szorenyi, Tamas | Laser-Induced Convection Nanostructures on SiON/Si Interface // Journal of applied physics, 104 (2008), 12; 124905-124910. doi: 10.1063/1.3043881

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Peto, Gabor ; Karacs, Albert ; Frenkel, Alexander | Fluid Flow Instability and Microstructure Evolution in the Inclined Laser Processing of Metal Surface Ccomprising Impurities // International journal of pure and applied mathematics, 49 (2008), 1; 37-44

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Peto, Gabor ; Karacs, Albert | Flow Instability of Fluid-Metal Layer Generated by Laser Pulse on an Inclined Metal Surface: Experiments and Simulation. // Applied physics letters, 90 (2007), 9; 091917-091920

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Peto, Gabor ; Toth, Attila ; Horvath, Eniko | One-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Array of Nanoholes Generated by Laser -Matter Interction in the Semiconfined Configuration // Journal of applied physics, 100 (2006), 10; 4308-4317-x

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Lugomer, Stjepan ; Michieli, Ivan | Multisolitons on vortex filaments: the origin of axial tangling // Journal of fluids and structures, 17 (2003), 2; 317-330-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Stipančić, Mladen | Growth of Mo-oxide patterns by anomalous dynamic diffusion of cations. // Physica scripta, 65 (2002), 5; 447-453-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser-induced bubble formation and collapse in a nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor unstable interface in a thin layer of molten metal // Physics letters. A, 251 (1999), 5; 303-310-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser-induced evolution of hypocycloidal formation of vortex filaments from nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a thin layer of molten metal // Journal of applied physics, 84 (1998), 9; 4684-4692-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Solitons On Vortex Filaments Generated By Ns Laser Pulse On Metal Surface // Journal of applied physics, 82 (1997), 3; 1374-1383-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser-induced two-dimensional periodic and chaotic motions on molten tantalum and molybdenum surfaces // Philosophical magazine. B, 75 (1997), 2; 187-207

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Stipančić, Mladen | Laser-induced Bursts of Subsurface Superheated Liquid Mo // Philosophical magazine. B, 73 (1996), 2; 309-323

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser-Induced Bursts Of Subsurface Liquid Mo At Transition From Planar To Volume Vaporization - Ballistic And Percolation Surface Aggregation Of Ejected Particles // Vacuum, 47 (1996), 9; 1053-1059. doi: 10.1016/0042-207X(96)00122-4

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• Michieli, Ivan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Legendre expansion related to the hubbell rectangular source integral // Radiation physics and chemistry (1993), 47 (1996), 6; 779-784. doi: 10.1016/0969-806X(96)00340-4

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Gracin, Davor | Determination of refractive index of a-Si1-xCx:H thin films from infrared absorption spectra // Applied optics, 32 (1993), 7; 1173-1175. doi: 10.1364/AO.32.001173

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• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Ivanda, Mile ; Gracin, Davor ; Furić, Krešimir ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | IR and Raman study of Si_(1-x)C_x:H amorphous thin films // Journal of molecular structure, 267 (1992), 347-351

Letter (scientific)

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Lugomer, Stjepan ; Vojnović, Božidar | Fast procedure for estimating capacity dimension of the fractal objects by the box counting // Fizika B, 4 (1995), 1; 29-37

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Conference abstract

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta | Raspoznavanje karbonatnih čestica u vodi // 19th Ružička days "Today science – tomorrow industry" : book of abstracts = 19. međunarodni znanstveno-stručni skup Ružičkini dani "Danas znanost - sutra industrija" : knjiga sažetaka. | Osijek : Zagreb: Prehrambeno-tehnološki fakultet Osijek Sveučilišta J. J. Strosssmayera u Osijeku ; Hrvatsko društvo kemijskih inženjera i tehnologa, 2022. str. 143-143

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• Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Vrankić, Martina ; Dananić, Vladimir | Investigation of the origin of luminescence bands in titanium doped gahnite (ZnAl2O4) // Knjiga sažetaka, Osmi znanstveni sastanak Hrvatskog fizikalnog društva. | Zagreb: Hrvatsko fizikalno društvo, 2013. str. 119-119

• Mohaček Grošev, Vlasta ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Crystal structures modelling: theory and experiment // Knjiga sažetaka. | Zagreb: Hrvatsko fizikalno društvo, 2011. str. 100-100

• Radić, Nikola ; Dubček, Pavo ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Salamon, Krešimir ; Jerčinović, Marko ; Dražić, Goran ; Bernstorff, Sigrid | A growth of C/W multilayers - experiment and modelling // ICTF-15, 15th International Conference on Thin Films, CD Book of Abstracts. | 2011. str. O-S2-08-x

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Lugomer, Stjepan ; Geretzovsky, Zsoltan ; Szoreny, Tamas | Laserski inducirane konvekcijske strukture na tankom filmu SiON // Zbornik sažetaka. | Zagreb, 2008. str. 7-7

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mihaljević, Branka ; Toth, Atilla ; Horvath, Eniko | Coherent Selforganization of Target Surface in Laser-Matter Interactions // The 18th Dubrovnik International Course & Conference on the Interfaces among Mathematics, Chemistry and Computer Sciences (MATH/CHEM/COMP/2003) : Program &book of abstracts. | Dubrovnik: Inter University Centre, 2003. str. 57-57

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Vojnović, Božidar | Extracting a Fractal Set of Points from Picture // Drugi znanstveno-stručni skup Programski sustav Mathematica u znanosti, tehnologiji i obrazovanju PrimMath [2003]. | Zagreb, 2003. str. 38-39-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mihaljević, Branka ; Toth, Atilla ; Horvath, Eniko | VORTICITY EVOLUTION IN THE RICHTMYER - MESKHOW ENVIROMENT. | Zagreb, 2003. str. 110-x

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Vojnović, Božidar | Box Counting in Mathematica // Programski sustav Mathematica u znanosti, tehnologiji i obrazovanju. | Zagreb: Matematički odsjek Prirodoslovno-matematičkog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2001. str. 50-51-x

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser generated solitons on vortex filaments on ta surface // Extended Abstracts of 7th Joint Vacuum Conference. | Hungarian National Commitee of IUVSTA, 1997. str. 193-194-x

Original scientific paper

• Vojnović, Božidar ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Fractal Signals Characterization Using Fractal Dimension Approach // Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic Technologies. | Rijeka: Hrvatska udruga za informacijsku i komunikacijsku tehnologiju, elektroniku i mikroelektroniku - MIPRO, 2004. str. 129-132

• Lugomer, Stjepan ; Maksimović, Aleksandar | Laser-generated solitons-on-vortex-filaments on the surface // Extended Abstracts. | Deberecen: Atomki Debrecin, 1997. str. 193-194-x

Unpublished conference paper

• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Valenčić, Lynne A. | X-rays spectra of nanodiamonds: density functional theory // 11th Symposium on Computing pi-conjugated Compounds | Zagreb, Hrvatska, 30.01.2020-01.02.2020

• Bilalbegović, Goranka ; Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Mohaček- Grošev, Vlasta | Hydrogenated iron nanoparticles: unexplored dust grains // European Week of Astronomy and Space Science | Prag, Češka Republika, 26.06.2017-30.06.2017

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• Bilalbegović, Goranka; Maksimović, Aleksandar; Mohaček-Grošev, Vlasta | Hydrogenated iron nanoparticles in the ISM // The Physics of the ISM | Köln, Njemačka, 13.02.2017-17.02.2017

• Maksimović, Aleksandar ; Lugomer, Stjepan ; Geretovszky, Zsoltan ; Szoreny, Tamas | Laser Induced Convection Patterns on SiON Thin Film // Advance Laser Technologies | Siófok, Mađarska, 13.09.2008-18.09.2008

Master of Science thesis

• Maksimović, Aleksandar | Površinski efekti na metalima inducirani nanosekundnim laserskim impulsima / Lugomer, Stjepan (mentor); Lugomer, Stjepan (neposredni voditelj) . | Zagreb, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb, 1996

Doctoral thesis

• Maksimović, Aleksandar | Vrtložni filamenti inducirani na metalima nanosekundnim laserskim impulsima / Lugomer, Stjepan (mentor). | Zagreb, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet, Zagreb, 1999

Member of Croatian Physical Society