Assistant Professor of Research Methodology and Handball
Contact information
Faculty of Sport and Physical Education
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Lovcenska 16, Novi Sad, Serbia
Office: 10 (second floor)
E-mail: jaksicd@uns.ac.rs
Born on December 15th, 1982, in Osijek, Republic of Croatia. In 1991 moved to Kljajićevo, municipality of Sombor. After finishing secondary school, enrolled in the Faculty of Physical Education of the University of Novi Sad, and graduated from it in 2006. In the school year 2007/08, began master studies at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Novi Sad, obtaining the degree in 2010, with an average score of 10.00, along with a successfully defended master’s thesis on Application of different statistical methods in defining of morphological types. The same year enrolled in PhD studies, passing all the exams with flying colours, and in 2016 defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Effects of The Application of Kinesiology Treatment on Motor, Morphological and Intellectual Dimension in Preschool Children.
Employed at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education since 2007, first as a Junior Researcher for a scientific project Integral development, physical activity and aberrant behaviour of pre-school children, funded by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, and since 2011, as an Assistant for the subjects of Basics of research in sport and physical education I and II, of the graduate studies. Since 2012 appointed for an Assistant for the subject of Methodology of research in sport and physical education, on the master studies. From the year of 2018 employed as Assistant Professor for the mentioned group of courses. In addition to the mentioned project, he participated or participates in four projects at the national level, four projects of the provincial level and several projects realised at the municipal level.
Since 2014, he has been a member of the Council of the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad.
He has realised two study visits within the exchange of teaching and non-teaching staff, the first one taking place in 2012, at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Ljubljana, Department of Sport Informatics and Statistics, and the second one in 2014, at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (Salonika, Greece), within the European Mobility Programme BASILEUS V.He published 20 of SCI articles and more than 50 other papers in scientific journals, and has given presentations in international and national conferences and symposiums.