Prof. Goran Mashanovich

Goran Mashanovich is a Professor of Photonics and a former Royal Society Research Fellow (2008-2016) at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton, UK.

He received Dipl. Ing. and MSc in Optoelectronics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, as the best student in the generation, and PhD in Silicon Photonics and MSc in innovative teaching from the University of Surrey, UK. He is head of the ORC Mid-infrared silicon photonics group.

Prof. Mashanovich is author of 450 publications in the field of Photonics and is currently investigator on grants totalling >£20 million. Goran is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.

Prof. Mashanovich has received several awards for his innovative teaching and was named the best lecturer at both University of Surrey and University of Southampton in 2010 and 2019, respectively.

He is married and has three children who were attending lessons at St Sava Church School from 2004 to 2019. Afterwards, they completed A-level equivalent Azbukum courses.