Jelena Bogdanović, PhD, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture and Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University
Bogdanović studies Byzantine, Slavic, Western European, and Islamic architecture in the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Trained as an engineer of architecture at the University of Belgrade and a historian of art and architecture at Vanderbilt and Princeton Universities, she holds a PhD from Princeton University (2008). She is the author of a monograph The Framing of Sacred Space: The Canopy and the Byzantine Church (Oxford UP, 2017), a topical study on canopies – four-columned structures with domes. Her research demonstrates how canopies as objects of basic structural and design integrity provide means for innovative understanding of the materialization of the idea of the Byzantine church. This pioneering work contributes to larger debates about the creation of sacred space and related architectural taxonomy. She contributed to and edited books Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (London and New York: Routledge, 2018); Icons of Space. Advances in Hierotopy (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), and with Michele Bacci and Vladimir Sedov of Space of the Icon: Iconography and Hierotopy (Moscow: Theoria, 2019). These books examine the creation and meanings of the sacred. Bogdanović is also a co-editor with Jessica Christie and Eulogio Guzmán of Political Landscapes of Capital Cities (UP of Colorado, 2016), and with Lilien Robinson and Igor Marjanović of On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918-1941) (Leuven UP, 2014). jelena.bogdanovic@vanderbilt.edu
Leslie Forehand, MArch, Assistant Professor, Long Beach City College
Forehand is a licensed architect, researcher, educator, and designer with over ten years of experience collaborating with engineers, scientists, historians, artists, and fashion designers in the classrooms and through research. Forehand investigates the materiality of digital processes, computation and construction, advanced fabrication processes, and visualization techniques through emerging tools, tackling design problems both in research and academia. She currently leads the Architecture program at Long Beach City College in California. Previously, Forehand was a David Lingle Faculty Fellow and Lecturer of Architecture at Iowa State University and taught and conducted research as the Designer of Information Visualization and 3D Modeling at the Center for Research at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. She has lectured, exhibited, published, and taught internationally. Among her recent award-winning projects is Mashrabiya 2.0 (with Doyle, Hunt, and Senske) in computation, masonry design, and construction, awarded by the International Masonry Institute (2018). lforehand@lbcc.edu
Charles Kerton, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University.
Dr. Kerton received his Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of Toronto in 2000. After graduating he was a postdoctoral research associate for three years at the National Research Council of Canada working on the International Galactic Plane Survey. In 2003 he joined the faculty at Iowa State. His research is in the area of observational studies of star formation and the physics of the interstellar medium and makes use of a wide variety of observational facilities ranging from the enormous 110-m diameter Green Bank radio telescope to the 0.8-m orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope in the infrared. kerton@iastate.edu
Magdalena Dragović, PhD Assistant Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Computer Aided Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
PhD Assistant professor of Descriptive Geometry and Computer Aided Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia is an expert in Descriptive Geometry, Computer aided Geometry and Projective Geometry, applied in engineering. Her research results achieved in the wide field of engineering and theoretical sciences as well, 3D modeling in architecture and design and cultural heritage preservation is presented in more than 80 publications in journals (four of them are reported in WoS) and conference proceedings. She is a member of international editorial boards and comities at the conferences in geometry. dim@grf.bg.ac.rs
Aleksandar Čučaković, PhD, Associate Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Computer Aided Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar A. Čučaković, born in 1958 in Belgrade. He is a graduateEngineer of Architecture, holds a Master of Architectural and UrbanSciences a PhD in Technical Sciences. Since 2005 he has held the position of Associate Professor of Descriptive Geometry at the Faculty of CivilEngineering at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research interests in the scientific field include: descriptive geometry, projective geometry, computational geometry, geometric education, and applied geometry in architecture design, cultural heritage and art. He was a participant in the two scientific projects – Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. cucak@grf.bg.ac.rs
Anastasija Martinenko,
PhD candidate in Geodesy, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia is MSc Geodesy in the main field of geoinformatics. Her research is focused on photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning, with the aspect of visualization and modeling of cultural heritage. Processing, analyzing, 3D modeling and distribution of point clouds obtained by applying photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. She is the author of several science papers in the main field of photogrammetry and Computer aided Geometry at international conferences. amartinenko@grf.bg.ac.rs
Marko Pejić, PhD, Associate Professor of Geodetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Serbia.
PhD, Associate Professor of Geodetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Serbia is an expert in field of surveying using terrestrial laser scanning technology, particularly in mathematical models of scanning, data registration, georeferencing and 3D modeling. He is the author of many peer reviewed papers, some of whom are with high-ranking status in WoS (Tunneling and Underground Space Technology – 2013, Measurement – 2014, Automation in Construction – 2016). He is also Associate Editor in international Journal of Geodetic Science (from 2014). mpejic@grf.bg.ac.rs
Dušan Danilović, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor, Communication of Science and Technology, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
Danilović is a physicist with a specialization in condensed matter physics and organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). He holds a BSc degree in astrophysics from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Belgrade, an MA and PhD degrees in physics from Temple University, Philadelphia, complemented by a three-year postdoctoral work at Ames National Lab. He is the author of a number of internationally ranked publications in his field of expertise, as well as of several publications that are dealing with the history of Byzantine astronomy and observations of the sun’s eclipse. dusan.s.danilovic@vanderbilt.edu
Travis Yeager, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University.
Yeager grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin. He completed his Bachelor’s of Science (2014) at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Master’s in Physics (2017) and PhD in Astrophysics (2020) at Iowa State University. As a graduate student, he worked with Dr. Curt Struck to develop his own hydrodynamic particle code to study gas-rich disk galaxy collisions. Since graduation, he has begun employment at Lawrence Livermore National Lab where his main focus will be on the detection of Earth-crossing asteroids. yeagertr@iastate.edu
Jacob Gasper, Architectural Designer/Researcher
Jacob Gasper is an Architectural Designer at OPN Architects in Des Moines, Iowa, and a Research Assistant with Study Studenica, focusing on visualizing lighting conditions in the Studenica Monastery. He was previously an Architectural Designer at STARTT in Rome, Italy. He contributed to competition proposals, masterplans, and exhibition design across Italy – most notably, a submission to the Grande MAXXI competition and the ongoing work at Castello di Trani and The Pantheon.
Gasper holds a Bachelor of Architecture with Honors from Iowa State University, where he was a Research Assistant at the Computation + Construction Lab (CCL) and Architectural Robotics Lab (ARL) under the supervision of Associate Professor Shelby Doyle. His contributions include the development of clay 3d printing workflows for the ARL’s two KUKA Industrial robotic arms featured in Field Notes published in ACADIA Conference Proceedings (2020,2021). Gasper also received the H. Kennard Bussard Award (Observing Air, w/ Cooper, Le, Alhamoudi) for a conceptually rigorous architectural response to the final thesis studio at Iowa State University. archigasper@gmail.com
Debanjana Chatterjee, MArch
Debanjana is an architectural designer, urban planner, researcher, and educator. She currently works as a Designer at Leo A Daly and is involved as a Research Assistant at Iowa State University for the project Study Studenica. Previously, she taught and conducted research as an Assistant Professor at the Architecture and Planning department of Amity University, India. She has presented, published, and exhibited her work internationally. debanjana.planner@gmail.com
Suvadip Mandal, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University.
Suvadip completed his integrated BS-MS degree (2018) in physics from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. Currently, he is a graduate student in astronomy at Iowa State University under Dr. Charles Kerton. suvadip@iastate.edu