I'm an Assistant Research Professor at the Scientific Computing Laboratory of the Institute of Physics Belgrade.
I earned my PhD in from the University of Novi Sad in 2019, focusing on quantitative methods and network science. My research applies computational methods to social science through network analysis, large language model agent simulations, and complex systems modeling.
I was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia in 2023-2024 and have been invited to speak at conferences including the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society. Most of my programming work can be found on Github.
News & Updates
2026
- • Talk on "transforEmotion in Practice: Multimodal Emotion Analysis in R" at Vanderbilt University QMDA Colloquium.
2025
- • Preprint on Reddit deplatforming and toxicity dynamics on arXiv.
- • Preprint on operational validation of LLM agent social simulation on arXiv.
- • Paper on cross-national invariance of externalizing problems screener in Development and Psychopathology.
- • Paper on positive and negative emotional experiences in adolescents across 32 countries in Applied Research in Quality of Life.
- • Paper on understanding democracy in Europe in Sociologija.
- • Paper on Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures in Personality and Individual Differences.
- • Paper on identity questionnaire longitudinal invariance in Journal of Child and Family Studies.
- • Paper on adolescent self-construal across 30 countries in Journal of Research on Adolescence.
- • Paper on identity orientations and adolescent well-being in Identity.
- • Paper on facial emotional expressions of political leaders in Journal of Computational Social Science.
- • Paper on Dark Triad traits and emotional functioning in IJP.
- • MADOC dataset published on Zenodo. Python: pymadoc, R: rMADOC.
- • Book "Statistički metodi: Praktični pristup u R-u" published.
2024
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transforEmotionv1.5 on Github and CRAN. - • Dynamic exploratory graph analysis of emotions in politics published in Advances.in/psychology.
- • Updated preprint on facial emotions of political leaders. arXiv, Github.
- • Talk at Sunbelt 2024. Slides and code.
- • Paper on identity questionnaire validation in JPA.
- • Python workshop at CoPA Training School. Materials.