The Department of Power Drives and Converters
Slobodan N. Vukosavić was born on January 27, 1962, in Sarajevo (Yugoslavia). He got his
PhD in 1989 at the University of Belgrade, Department of Electrical Engineering. Since 1985,
he has been working at the Nikola Tesla Institute on the development of power converters
and control systems for industrial and military purposes. In 1988, he worked at the
Emerson-ESCD research center in St. Louis, developing patented solutions for electronic
control of electric machines. From 1991, he worked for Vickers-Electric on establishing the
research center for motion control, assuming the leadership of the research and
development team and focusing on designing the motion control products and systems for
industrial robots.