Nenad M. Kostić, professor, graduated with distinction from the University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, and won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1978. After receiving his Ph.D. degree
from the University of Wisconsin in 1982, he was a Research Fellow at Caltech in 1982-84.
He came to Iowa State University in 1984. He won a Presidential Young Investigator Award,
given by the National Science Foundation, in 1988 and was named a Research Fellow by the
A. P. Sloan Foundation in 1991. He serves as an expert analyst for the journal Chemtracts Inorganic Chemistry and served on editorial board of Bioconjugate Chemistry.
He was a visiting Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands, in 1994. Professor Kostić
received the Karić Award for Scientific Research from Karik Foundation in 2001 and an
Award for Faculty Excellence from Iowa Board of Reagents in 2003 and was elected nonresident
member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2003. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of American
Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is founder and president of Kostić
Fund for Chemical Sciences, an American charitable foundation that supports research and teaching
in his old country. He joined Texas A & M University at Commerce in the summer of 2006 as professor and department head.
Nenad M. Kostić, professor, graduated with distinction from the University of Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, and won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1978. After receiving his Ph.D. degree
from the University of Wisconsin in 1982, he was a Research Fellow at Caltech in 1982-84.
He came to Iowa State University in 1984. He won a Presidential Young Investigator Award,
given by the National Science Foundation, in 1988 and was named a Research Fellow by the
A. P. Sloan Foundation in 1991. He serves as an expert analyst for the journal Chemtracts Inorganic Chemistry and served on editorial board of Bioconjugate Chemistry.
He was a visiting Professor at Leiden University, The Netherlands, in 1994. Professor Kostić
received the Karić Award for Scientific Research from Karik Foundation in 2001 and an
Award for Faculty Excellence from Iowa Board of Reagents in 2003 and was elected nonresident
member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2003. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of American
Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is founder and president of Kostić
Fund for Chemical Sciences, an American charitable foundation that supports research and teaching
in his old country. He joined Texas A & M University at Commerce in the summer of 2006 as professor and department head.