Dr Jelena Aleksic is the Head of Innovation Strategy at CNT Ltd. She has wide project management, R&D and teaching experience. While she was working as a scientific associate at the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund, Germany she taught subjects Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics and Mathematics. During her PhD studies in fluid mechanics related to crystal growth at the University of Rostock, Germany, she developed a new temperature measurement method for fluids based on thermochromic liquid crystals (TLC). Her thesis was awarded with the first prize at the South-eastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Orlando, FL, USA. She organised scientific conferences and edited an internationally published science magazine. At the CNT Ltd. she has been working extensively on developing business strategies, and preparation of customised patent landscaping and market research reports in the field of nanomaterials. Dr Aleksic has also been working on management of European collaborative R&D EC FP7 & H2020 projects (UltraWire, NanoLeap, EPPN, nTRACK, OYSTER, M3DLoC, Genesis, Repair3D, APOLO, TriAnkle, Carbo4Power, DOME 4.0 and NanoMECommons) involving tasks such as innovation management, Business Model and Plan development, identification and analysis of Key Exploitable Results, mapping and engagement with stakeholders and other relevant exploitation and dissemination tasks. She is also acting as Exploitation and Innovation Manager on the EC H2020 n-TRACK and as Exploitation Manager on the EC H2020 Genesis project. Through her business development activities, Dr Aleksic raised around €2M funding for CNT Ltd. Previously she worked in many different industries including renewable energies, construction and social media and she is fluent in English, German, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

Dr Ana Bankovic Cassidy is an Innovation Consultant. She joined CNT team in February 2021.
Ana graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade Serbia, winning the award for the best BSc (Honors) Thesis of the year 2007. The main aim of her PhD study and further research was to identify and explain specific kinetic phenomena that occur in positron transport in electric and magnetic field due to non-conservative nature of positronium formation. Ana applied the basic phenomenology of charged particle swarms to study the interaction of positrons with biologically relevant molecules, in order to develop and establish a benchmark for Monte Carlo codes used in positron emission tomography (PET) modelling. Her research activities were undertaken in Centre for Non-Equilibrium Processes at the Institute of Physics in Belgrade, Serbia, a large interdisciplinary group with interests ranging from theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of low temperature plasmas, to studies of positron swarms and their applications, modelling particle detectors and conducting experiments at applying plasma physics methodologies to medicine and biological applications. As a Visiting Researcher at the Open University, Milton Keynes in 2014/15, she worked on quantum chemistry treatment of positron interactions with atoms and molecules using the UKRmol quantum chemistry software.