University of Belgrade - Institute for Multidisciplinary Research

Maja Korolija

PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Technology

Research Assistant

Address: Student Squere 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Research area

  • History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences and T
  • Philosophy and Sociology of Science
  • History of Science
  • Sociology of knowledge
  • Philosophy and Sociology of Politics
  • Nuclear Physics
  • Psychology

Skills

  • Employment of different methods in Social Sciences analyses.
  • Statistical analysis (SPSS)
  • Biography
  • Projects
  • Selected publications

1.Work experience:

  • 2018-present: Research Trainee, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade.
  • 2017/2018 – part of the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit (SIPRU) of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, as a scientific researcher in the analyses of primary school textbooks of Serbian language. The research was conducted in the framework of the project Support to Improve Social Inclusion in Serbia of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, with the goal of identifying stereotypical and discriminatory representations of gender roles in primary school textbooks.
  • 2016 – An associate in empirical research within the project Gender that Matters: Poverty and Social Inclusion―Social Protection Status in Rural Kosovo and Serbia by the Center for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy, a part of a regional support program for the research in the field of social sciences in the Western Balkans (RRPP Western Balkans).

2.Education:

  • 2020 – Become PhD candidate with thesis on “Dynamics of the relationship between science and ideology and the origins of the nuclear program in the context of the socioeconomic transformation of the FPRY” at the University of Belgrade; study program: History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Technology.
  • 2016 – Enrolled into PhD studies at the University of Belgrade; study program: History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences and Technology.
  • 2016 – Obtained master’s degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, for a duration of 60 ESPB points, with an average score of 9.80; acquired academic degree: master sociologist; master work title: Bernal’s understanding of the relationship between science and society.
    (2015 – Completed the first year of master’s academic studies in Business Psychology at the Faculty of Law and Business Studies “Dr Lazar Vrkatić” in Novi Sad, Union University, for a duration of 60 ESPB points, with an average grade of 9.40, on the basis of which she acquired the title: graduate psychologist.)
  • 2014 – Completed academic studies of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, for a duration of 240 ESPB points, with an average score of 9.73; academic degree: graduated sociologist.
  • 2014 – Completed academic studies in Business Psychology at the Faculty of Law and Business Studies “Dr. Lazar Vrkatić”, at the Union University in Novi Sad, lasting for 180 ESPB points, average grade 9.39; professional title: psychologist.

3.Awards and certificates:

  • In 2014 and 2015, she received a scholarship from the Dositeja Young Talent Fund of the Republic of
  • In 2014, she received the best student award from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad
  • In 2015 an award from the endowment funds of Matica Srpska as the best student at the Department of Sociology of Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
  • In 2013, she received scholarship from the Scholarship Fund for the Encouragement and the Advancement of Gifted Students and Young Scientists and Artists of the University of Novi Sad;

4.Other professional activities

  • In 2020 she become one of the founders of the Almagest – Society for history, sociology and philosophy of science and technology of early scholars.
  • In 2016, she volunteered in organizing panel discussions for the Regional Scientific Center of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Novi
  • During 2015, she worked as an organizer and moderator of panel discussions in the context of the Scientific Coffee project in Novi Sad, which was supported by Belgrade-based Center for the Promotion of

Editorial and Reviewer’s activity (journals, books, projects):

  • Korolija, M. (2019). Machiavelli’s Politics. (Review of the book Catherine Zuckert, Machiavelli’s Politics. Chicago&London: University of Chicago Press). Philosophy and Society, 4 (30), pp.633-635.

Memberships:

  • East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS)
  • Society for Electronics, Telecommunications, Computing, Automatics and Nuclear Technology (ETRAN)
  • Serbian Society for the History of Science
  • Serbian Sociological Society
  • Society of the Psychologists of Serbia
  • Almagest – Early Scholars Society for History, Sociology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
  • The British Society for the History of Science (UK)
  • The History of Science Society (US)
  • The Renaissance Society of America (US)

Past:

  1. Korolija, M. (2020). Science and Society: Merton’s scientific norms in the light of the Marxist critique of positivism. Science and Society, 12, 60-82.
  2. Kоrоliја, М. (2019). Preliminarni pregled početaka jugoslovenskog nuklearnog programa. (Preliminary review of the beginnings of the Yugoslav nuclear program). Еtran: Zbornik radova, 715-720 – ID=1521
  3. Kоrolija, М. (2018). Shvatanje alhemije kod Sime Lozanića (Sima Lozanić’s Understanding of Alchemy). Phlogiston, 26, стр. 297-320. – ID=1517
  4. Korolija, M. (2017). Relacija nauke i političke ideologije na primerima iz oblasti nauke i obrazovawa u odnosima SSSR i FNRJ. Filozofija i društvo, XXVIII(4), стр. 1160-1171. – ID=1519

Scientific meetings:

  1. Коrоliја, М. Alhemija kao paradigma i faza u razvoju moderne (Alchemy as a paradigm and a phase in the development of modern science). Izlaganje na naučnom skupu Filozofija i nauka, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti i Odeljenje za filozofiju Filozofskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu, 21-22.10. 2020 .
  2. Korolija, М. Scientific Practice in Yugoslavia: From Marxism-Leninism to Self-Managed Socialism. Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice How is (Scientific) Knowledge Validated, Valued and Contested? (International Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop, Munich, 19-21st February, 2020).
  3. Korolija, M. Structural assumptions of the emergence of the Non-aligned Science, First Young Scholars Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Paris, France, September 10–12, 2019).
  4. Korоliја, М. Hladni rat u nauci Jugoslavije: odnos nauke i političke ideologije, Fifth International Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities Contexts December, 20, 2019). Filozofski fakultet, Novi Sad. ISBN: 978-86-6065-565-5.